Arriving back from the Amazon, a team of soldiers is told to go back after strange rumors come out of the jungle, and as the war gets more personal and deadly they realize they're up against vampires that can walk in daylight and launch a full-scale invasion to extinguish the race from the countryside.
This here doesn't have a whole lot wrong and isn't that bad. One of the best features is that this one really has plenty of nice action scenes with just about no downtime in between them. This starts off with a great ambush amidst scores of ruins as the team is ambushed by the creatures and forced to defend themselves with the unconventional daylight action and martial arts battles make for a fun time. After this strong opening, it never lets up from there focusing on the brief ambushes with the vampires jumping out to grab someone turning into a huge firefight or a slaughter ripping their victim to pieces. With the secondary storyline involving the team searching for his ex-wife containing plenty of action this really makes the film go over smoothly, as the only times not doing battle are actually important as to what's going on and still manages to entertain. This one also has a lot to like with the gore in the film, which is also really nice. This one really knocks off a huge amount of humans and vampires once it lets the bodies drop, as there's a huge body count between both sides. Several vampires are staked bloodily in the chest, even more are impaled in the chest with spears, there's a really savage decapitation, plenty of bodies ripped in half, including one of the most brutal waist-tears ever which spills large amounts of blood, and several get shot up with bullets. Most of the human victims are relegated to being bitten in the throat. This is made up for by having three separate military squads getting attacked which is quite nice to see. The last positive to be had here is that this one has several really smart reasons for the differences in vampiric behavior, which has plenty to like with the story being told. The idea of the vampires coming out of the rainforest echoing hints of Incan and Aztec mythology is rather nice, setting up the idea of them being far more present and prominent in the area than expected. As well, it goes forward with the second team searching for the first one who is vampirized and leading the other creatures in their war against the locals that sets up a rather enjoyable finale that pits the two sides together against each other conveniently. As well as the joking banter that is at times pretty funny, all of these here makes the film seem really better than it should be. This one wasn't bad but did have a few problems with it. The main issue is that the film does decide to drop many of the most traditional and basic vampire rules. Even though this one does the smart thing and explains why the changes made which make sense, the fact is, hardcore fans will be outraged that they're made at all. The more liberal ones will accept the changes, but again the other fans will have problems. Another flaw is that there's nothing really frightening about the vampires as the only difference is that there are incredibly fake fang dentures that are quite bad. The fact that there's hardly any variety in the kills could be a source of discomfort, as there isn't a whole lot of differences in them. These, though, are all that stop the film.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene.
This here doesn't have a whole lot wrong and isn't that bad. One of the best features is that this one really has plenty of nice action scenes with just about no downtime in between them. This starts off with a great ambush amidst scores of ruins as the team is ambushed by the creatures and forced to defend themselves with the unconventional daylight action and martial arts battles make for a fun time. After this strong opening, it never lets up from there focusing on the brief ambushes with the vampires jumping out to grab someone turning into a huge firefight or a slaughter ripping their victim to pieces. With the secondary storyline involving the team searching for his ex-wife containing plenty of action this really makes the film go over smoothly, as the only times not doing battle are actually important as to what's going on and still manages to entertain. This one also has a lot to like with the gore in the film, which is also really nice. This one really knocks off a huge amount of humans and vampires once it lets the bodies drop, as there's a huge body count between both sides. Several vampires are staked bloodily in the chest, even more are impaled in the chest with spears, there's a really savage decapitation, plenty of bodies ripped in half, including one of the most brutal waist-tears ever which spills large amounts of blood, and several get shot up with bullets. Most of the human victims are relegated to being bitten in the throat. This is made up for by having three separate military squads getting attacked which is quite nice to see. The last positive to be had here is that this one has several really smart reasons for the differences in vampiric behavior, which has plenty to like with the story being told. The idea of the vampires coming out of the rainforest echoing hints of Incan and Aztec mythology is rather nice, setting up the idea of them being far more present and prominent in the area than expected. As well, it goes forward with the second team searching for the first one who is vampirized and leading the other creatures in their war against the locals that sets up a rather enjoyable finale that pits the two sides together against each other conveniently. As well as the joking banter that is at times pretty funny, all of these here makes the film seem really better than it should be. This one wasn't bad but did have a few problems with it. The main issue is that the film does decide to drop many of the most traditional and basic vampire rules. Even though this one does the smart thing and explains why the changes made which make sense, the fact is, hardcore fans will be outraged that they're made at all. The more liberal ones will accept the changes, but again the other fans will have problems. Another flaw is that there's nothing really frightening about the vampires as the only difference is that there are incredibly fake fang dentures that are quite bad. The fact that there's hardly any variety in the kills could be a source of discomfort, as there isn't a whole lot of differences in them. These, though, are all that stop the film.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene.