This live action version of Blood: The Last Vampire is much more straight forward and less confusing compared to it's original anime counterpart. Which is good I guess, especially for a general American audience. My only compliant is the complete dilution of the significance of the backdrop setting of an American military base in Japan right before the impending American involvement with the war in Vietnam. The significance of having that always in the background along with it being an analogy of what's happening in the movie is what made it good in my opinion.
I often wonder if the people who write adaptations even realize the things they are cutting out or if they are intentionally dumbing it down. Either way I don't like it.
OK Brendan, you've told us quite a lot but you haven't actually said anything about the movie. Was it good? Was it bad? What you've done here is to essentially talk around the film, describing things that don't need to be described: the sets, the actual people who play the parts, the genre(s) the film might fit into. But do you have anything at all to say about the movie itself that might pass as criticism? Your "review" gives the impression that you did not even need to be in the theater to write it; why don't you begin there and then relate your experience watching the film and try to put it into context -- that thing other critics do as a service to their readers. This shouldn't be an exercise in stenography!
I often wonder if the people who write adaptations even realize the things they are cutting out or if they are intentionally dumbing it down. Either way I don't like it.