Rise: Blood Hunter2007
Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
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Cast
as Sadie Blake
as Clyde Rawlins
as Eve
as Bishop
as Lloyd
as Collette
as Harrison
as LA Weekly Editor
as Ethan Mills
as Tricia Rawlins
as Kaitlin
as Rourke
as Det. Easton
as Poe
as Coroner's Assistant
as Sadie's Mother
as Beth
as Arturo
as Hank
as Homeless Child
as Morena
as Teen Girl
as Sailor
as Trampy Teen
as Alex
as Jenny
as Bartender
as Taylor
as Dwayne
as Officer
as Receptionist
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Critic Reviews for Rise: Blood Hunter
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (10) | DVD (1)
[Director] Gutierrez sustains a heightened mood of sex and violence that, without breaking new ground, entertains in the way Gothic flicks do: a combination of cheap thrills and a good old-fashioned crusade against evil.
You can thank a capable cast led by the estimable Lucy Liu, and work by writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez that succeeds in making the formulaic seem fresh.
Mediocrity. [Full review in Spanish]
Lucy Liu is always welcome on my screen, an actress who marries intelligence with feminine mystique, bundled with a dry wit and the ability to make action roles credible.
Torturous vampire bloodbath is a waste for all.
A tedious Blade rip-off. No suspense or scares, but lots of boredom.
Audience Reviews for Rise: Blood Hunter
Rise is fun trash. It's nothing amazing, but totally watchable if you're in the mood for a erotic vampire detective noir. Also watch for the Marilyn Manson & Robert Forester cameos. Did I mention it's shot by John Toll. Yes that John Toll.
Super Reviewer
I'll be quite brief in this review for I feel that this movie fails to provide good scares and a good story. First off, Lucy Liu is plainly a bad actress. She can't act. This movie still proves that. I'd figured she'd retire after the lame Charlie's Angels movies. Anyways, getting back to this film, the movie is full of flaws, the dialogue between the characters is completely utter garbage and the plot borrows alot of from the Blade franchise, which in my opinion was terrible. On a high note on this film, Marilyn Manson makes a cameo as a bartender. Which I found was amusing to see. At least he was better than Lucy Liu, and he had less than 5 minutes on screen. I thought the movie was bad and with Lucy liu attempting the Buffy the vampire slayer routine; it just didn't work.
Super Reviewer
A reporter is turned into a vampire and she sets about tracking down and killing her attackers. The opening scene of this film is one of the lamest Playboy style pseudo-lesbian scenes I have ever seen in a "serious" film and that just about sets the level of the entire movie. It's basically just Lucy Liu and her cheekbones wandering around with a mindlessly disinterested look on her face, occasionally getting naked and dousing herself in fake blood. There is no action to speak of, the disjointed timeline is pointless and does nothing but mildly confuse in an attempt to make the plot look a lot more clever and complex than it actually is. The casting of Lucy and Robert Forster in a cameo are clearly a deliberate ploy to give this softcore TV movie standard bag of cliches a Tarantino flavour but its total lack of invention, humour or excitement make it a real chore to sit through. And any film that manages to make Lucy Liu in the nip seem like a bore is going SERIOUSLY wrong somewhere...
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