Blood Shot

Brennan Elliot is the lead actor, and it seems like he mostly does Hallmark romance and holiday movies. He was OK as a police detective who is obsessed with vampires and gets fired from the police department.

Michael Bailey Smith is the gigantic vampire who works for the CIA. Elliot wants to kill him, but eventually they team up to fight Muslim terrorists who built a nuclear bomb to detonate in town.

The movie is fast-paced. There is nominal romance with Elliot's soon to be ex-wife, but not much. The pace goes from one attack by the Muslims to another, with Smith and Elliot fighting the terrorists at every stop.

The terrorists are led by Brad Dourif, who does an OK job, but is not as maniacal as some of the other terrorists in his group.

Lance Henrikson plays the CIA handler who guides Smith to the various terrorists that must be stopped.

Christopher Lambert has a few scenes as the President of the USA who is keeping tabs on Henrikson and Smith's progress agains the terrorists.

Sadly, none of the top actors have any scenes together. It is likely they all fimed their parts from home. Henrikson, Dourif, and Lambert are never together. Smith does meet Henrikson for CIA ops. He also meets Dourif when they are fighting the terrorists.

There is not much gore or special effects. The terrorists and their plans and style are pretty entertaining, and the rest is mostly gunfights and fistfights. Think Walker Texas Ranger fighting vampires and terrorists.

When i first saw the cover, or the french title in the video store(yes some people still rent from video stores) "Vampire Assassin" i knew i was in for something pretty lame and dumb. Oh well i have not rent one of those in ages, and i had a coupon for 2 at the price of 1...

The movie start right away and this is my major complain, its never explained why the cop is after the vampire. We are supposed to believe the cop only want to bring the vampire to justice because he kill people... which is extremely lame. Eventually they will have to team up as the synopsis mention to take down a terrorist who want to blow out a Nuke in L.A. OK this part is from the start extremely hard to believe, terrorist running freely in the US in full "arabian look" and all. But on top of that the leader is so caricatured you can't take him seriously at all.

When it comes to other characters, the vampire is OK, he is imposing, look strong, outside the fact that he only use double pistol, you could think he is what you have in mind when you think "vampire". The cop ain't bad, but his character is so badly introduced you have trouble caring for him.

But the bad guys are just a total mess, they can't be believe in at all, and the whole concept of the president talking from his limo to a vampire division administrator is so whatever.

After that, i would say the way the movie is filmed is pretty decent, camera work is fine, blood is fine, but i am not sure if this is part of the vampire "powers" but when he sponge bullets, they just disappear in a little smoke explosion, not even damaging his suit, which i tough was extremely silly and just poor special effects.

In the end i would say the movie is hard to like, even if you see it as a total "nanar" as we call them in french, which could be translated to "a silly but fun movie" in English. The pacing ain't very good, the story is, even tough not really complicated" hard to follow because its simply badly written, and the characters outside the vampire himself, seem way too caricatured and dumb.

In the end really not a must, whatever you are a fan of vampire movies or action movies. And i saw it witch a bunch of beers... so i gave him a big chance.

BLOOD SHOT is another pitifully-budgeted vampire horror flick that mixes in some thriller and action elements to no good measure. The story has various Russian and Middle Eastern gangs teaming up to get hold of a bomb while the FBI sends in a special agent, who randomly happens to be a vampire, to sort things out. There's an annoying human cop who gets in the way too. This strives for an '80s feel but never really works thanks to the paucity of the budget and amateurish nature of the direction. The hulking Michael Bailey Smith is good value as the vampire, and there are welcome cameos from genre mainstays Lance Henriksen, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lambert (the latter bizarrely playing the president!), but overall this is fairly pitiful.

People are reviewing this movie like it's The Godfather. It's a campy action buddy cop movie. Some veteran actors help the movie along. The worst is the female Captain. Total miscast. Directing is okay. I knew this wasn't a top grade movie going in and I had fun with it. Formulaic story but it's better than a one star. I have seen sub 5 star movies. This is better than that.

Hysterical, lots of memorable one liners! This movie is fantastic, I do not get the bad reviews. Well unless it was by people that do not understand clever humor, hysterical one liners and a fantastically silly plot. If you are looking for a uplifting, super fun Sunday afternoon then check this movie out, it is just simply a great time.

The one liners really make the movie and Brad Dourif and Christopher Lambert are great as always. I really do not know what else to say, this movie is great, if you like purposely silly, fun movies then you will love this one. Give it a shot, you will have a great time.

Wow they like a long review for movies here, most people just want a quick summary of how the movie was without someone giving away the plot too much and ruining the movie. That is why I never listen to movie critic reviews, they not only give a pretentious review but they give away too much in the movie and ruin it.