Was just like I hoped it would be. It would be an ideal double-feature with Constantine, Van Helsing, Underworld, or even Legion for optimum levels of ass kicking, badassery, and supernatural crap of some denomination.
Paul Bettany: perfect, I only wish they'd have let him keep his glorious British accent.
Karl Urban: perfect in every way. Put a gold star on the black hat.
Maggie Q: could have participated in the badassery more, but had her moment and so I am satisfied.
Cam Gigandet: had his good moments, his bad moments: if only they'd have let him actually tan rather than giving him the Jersey treatment!
The Vampires: one of the most original vampire concepts this side of Western Media in the last decade. Perhaps longer.
The design: superb. I've no idea how much the design for the film looks like the designs from the original korean graphic novels (serialized in the states by the juggernaut Tokyopop), but here's a list of everything that I can judge went into the aesthetics for the movie: Assassin's Creed for the costumes of the Priests/Priestesses (Paul Bettany especially), super turbo mega awesome motorcycles a la FFVII Advent Children, futuristic Cowboys/space western/twisted western, steam power meets Blade Runner cyber-city, windswept post-apocalypse desert, enough conducting explosions to orchestral music to make V proud, blood gore violence and, of course, who could forget? a fight on top of a moving train.
In short: BRILLIANT.
Go watch it.
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The original graphic novels are basically Hellsing in a pseudo-Western setting, with a similar plot. Whereas this was more like Hellsing meets A Canticle For Leibowitz---without being THAT good, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe visuals were really nice but the script was, IMO, only marginally above Legion. But I'm like a total movie snob now... it's either masterpieces or trash for me. NO MIDDLE GROUND xD