Rise: Blood Hunter 2007 123movies

Watch: Rise: Blood Hunter 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – The snoopy reporter Sadie Blake is called by her nerd colleague Ethan Mills that has deciphered a code and found an address in Koreatown from information of the Goth Tricia Rawlins about a bloody cult. Sadie does not give attention to Ethan, but when she sees on the front page of the news that Tricia has been found dead in a dumpster in Koreatown, she decides to visit the address. She finds an abandoned house with a gruesome basement full of blood and she immediately drives to Ethan’s apartment. She finds the place in a complete mess and is abducted by a stranger and taken to Bishop, who wants to know what Tricia has told her. Then, Bishop and his mate Eve kill Sadie and they have a necrophilic threesome with her body. Later, Sadie awakes in the freezer of the morgue and sooner she realizes that she is a vampire and promises revenge to her sire..
Plot: A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
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	4.9/10 Votes: 12,087
	33% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 192 Popularity: 14.499 | TMDB

Reviews:

Well-balanced meal
Despite its unwieldy, off-putting title, Rise: Blood Hunter (aka simply Rise) isn’t as terribly cheesy and disgusting as I imagined it would be. A reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up in a morgue’s body drawer and discovers she’s been changed into a blood-seeking, human-chomping immortal, or something, and rather than gleefully embrace her new self she decides to track down the evil bastards who put her in that condition, making her a sort of avenging angel for all those who have been similarly wronged.

Sadie Blake (Liu) is a sexy, classy young lady who’s just written a front-page story about teen goth clubs. One of her coworkers, the nerdy computer stereotype, tracks down a phone number that one of the teens handed to Sadie – turns out it’s not a phone number but the first in a series of clues that leads to a website devoted to some weird bloodsucking cult. Sadie, of course, thinks the story’s over and goes on a quickie vacation to Mexico with her sister, but when she returns, you guessed it, her coworker’s dead. Sadie follows clues like a good little Nancy Drew and winds up getting kidnapped (several times) and killed (several times), all to figure out who or what’s behind everything.

The story jumps around a lot, flouting the conventions of time as we know them; things simply don’t happen in the exact order we’d expect them to, which clouds Sadie’s motives and intentions quite a bit. Is she good? Is she even human? After all, once she’s been attacked by the vampire people, she’s not exactly the picture of health, and she’s gotta eat to survive. Is her ultimate goal of revenge enough to offset the unpleasant facts? It helps that there’s a typically hissable bad guy, Bishop (James D’Arcy). He’s eternal, of course, and he kills and mutilates and rapes for the sheer joy of it. There are no moral or ethical quandaries with this guy. Plus he has an effete, brandy-swilling British accent, making all the more unctuous and slimy. (Well, he’s slimy also because he’s often covered in someone’s blood.) Now, granted, this isn’t a pleasant, sedate movie to watch. It’s full of gore and guts, although not so much as, say, a movie like Saw or Hostel. It’s still not for the weak of stomach. You might remember how, in Kill Bill, The Bride traveled all over to wipe out those who’d wronged her – but the film didn’t show us this in the order in which each avenging occurred, did it? So you’d see Uma Thurman wander over to Viveca Fox’s house not knowing if she’d already visited Lucy Liu. Well, you would know, of course, if you picked up on the subtle hints, and that’s exactly how it is here. At one point, Sadie runs into alcoholic, world-weary cop-with-a-conscience-and-a-cause Clyde Rawlins (a fantastic Michael Chiklis) and mutters something about having seen him before. And if you watch the movie closely, you see exactly where. It’s as if there are no coincidences in the movie, and I think that works in its favor.

Still, it IS just a revenge flick, albeit one with vampires and a kick-ass crossbow. Liu is very, very good – she’s not the screaming, hands-in-the-air type of heroine, but she’s also not the balls-out gut-stomping Lara Croft type, either. Remember, Lucy Liu is petite; she doesn’t automatically have this intimidating screen presence, so she uses what she has and makes the most of it. In her case, I’d have to say it’s her eyes, flashing terror or courage in…. well, in the blink of an eye.

So despite some predictability, the movie does work, thanks to Liu and the novelty of the disjointed sequencing. There are quite a few chills, and the plot doesn’t stray too far from its main revenge thread, thus simplifying matters.

No attempt to copy Blade or Underworld, fortunately
“Rise” is less remarkable for the things it does, more for the things it doesn’t. The movie resists to copy the successful tricks of the trade from “Blade” and “Underworld” about cool superhero vampires who love to stage “Matrix” fights because slow motion is so much fun. “Rise” shows us a female vampire who is often defeated, hates her unwanted physical condition, and especially the scene when she bites her first victim, a weak old man, her feelings are so visible: the disgust, the addiction, the cowardice, the frustration being unable to resist. Insofar it is not surprising that she tries to kill herself before she has a thought about revenge for the first time. I loved the scene when she visits her mother, but is unable to explain everything, so she just watches her. Even though the second half of the movie is a kind of revenge story we are familiar with from the cinema of the 1970 and 80s, it’s a good genre entry – neither trying to make an art movie like “The Addiction” nor the trendy Gothic pop thing, but creating its own world which reminds me rather of dark city movies such as Clint Eastwood’s “Tightrope” than any recent horror movie. It’s not the blood, it’s the characters. And speaking of that – honestly, since I remember Lucy Liu as one of Charlie’s Angels, I didn’t expect she could pull this off. Thumbs up!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (unrated DVD)
Budget 0
Revenue 2850927
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Horror
Director Sebastian Gutierrez
Writer Sebastian Gutierrez
Actors Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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