The problem isn't as prevalent as in the first movie, as there's more action and less talking this time around, but it does still feel like the producers had two hours of story and they had to fit it into a hour-and-a-half runtime. Much like the first movie, Bloodlust suffers from character overly explaining everything they're seeing and hearing, often times at a rushed pace as the English actors try to fit in all their lines in the span o the Japanese animation (and yes, once again I watched this flick dubbed, so all the purist fanboys and grouse all they want). That's not to say it all works, of course. There's momentum, there's action and there's pay off of all the various plot threads at the end of the movie. Because everyone is moving in the same direction and is constantly crossing paths with each other (and the fact that the movie focuses as long on D as it does the Marcus Brothers and their band of hunters), it doesn't ever feel like the movie is just stalling for time. There are action moments spiked by story sequences, and the plot line balances it all out fairly well. Bloodlust, though, is a long chase sequence. The first movie had a plot that could have been resolved in fifteen minutes (especially since D and everyone else in the movie knew exactly where the flick's evil vampire was). What really sets this movie apart from the original, though, is it's strong, consistent story. It also probably benefited from a larger budget (although this is just a guess as we're unable to find any details on this aspect Online), allowing for much improved animation and effects. Some of this has to be attributed to the era - the original film is very much a product of the '80s, with that era's animation and storytelling devices in full effect. D will have to deal with the dangers of the road, the Marcus Brothers, and the vampire (Count Meier Link) to save the girl and collect his bounty.Īlthough Bloodlust shares many things in common with the original Vampire Hunter D film - the protagonist, the ambiance, the fair simple story-structure - in most ways Bloodlust is a massive improvement over the first film. However, D has competition for his reward (20 million dollars, with no explanation about how much that actually means in this future society), a group of bounty hunters, the Marcus Brothers, to also track down the vampire and the girl. They ask D to find the girl and kill the vampire and, if the girl has already been turned into a vampire herself, kill the girl as well. At a neutral location he meets with the father and brother of the young girl, Charlotte. She awakes as her window opens, and a vampire appears, stealing her away into the night.ĭays later, our quiet, shadowy hero, D, comes into town. Lamps sputter out, crosses bend and break. While she readies herself (not like that), dark magic flows across the land. Late one night a young girl heads to bed.
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