Vampires 3 : La Dernière Éclipse du Soleil

I watched the movie and though it might have been a little confusing, some of the stunts and fight sequences were awesome, and just the subtle use of contacts and fangs for the vampires went over really well, because asians already have the exotic look down, with the contacts it just made them appear more appealing and alluring, my hats off though to COLIN, because he was one definite hottie. I loved him in this film and hope to see him do more, ROCK ON! Patrick Bachau is in this film and I can't really see him as anyone other than Sydney from THE PRETENDER, Stephanie was great in the film, but we really could have done with Meredith Monroe, I thought she went insane anyway, she just came off as this whiny chick, who chose to go with COLIN's character to Asia, did she really think they were just gonna look at silky fabrics and lighted signs. COME ON!!

While I have indeed watched the 2004 movie "Vampires: The Turning" once before, I have to admit that I have entirely forgotten about the story in the movie. The only thing I do remember about it is the title. And since I have just watched "Vampires: Los Muertos", I opted to carry on with this third movie in the franchise.

But honestly, I wasn't harboring much of any grand expectations, as I have forgotten about the movie entirely, even after having watched it once before. And with a staggering 3.6 rating on IMDb, in this very moment of me reviewing it, I can't claim that my expectations were yanked up.

Writers D. B. Farmer and Andy Hurst put together a fair enough script and storyline, though it somewhat paled up against the 1998 original "Vampires" movie.

The only actor I was familiar with in the movie was Roger Yuan. Luckily, I do enjoy watching movies with a fully and wholly unfamiliar cast ensemble, so that at least counted for something here. The acting performances in the movie were fair.

Whereas the previous two movies in the franchise were set in USA, this third movie took place in Thailand. Personally, I found that a nice change of pace, as I enjoy Asian cinema in general.

Visually, then the movie was adequate. It wasn't the most impressive of special effects, for sure, but I will say that the special effects in the movie served their purpose well enough.

My rating of "Vampires: The Turning" lands on an four out of ten stars.

This is an entertaining combination of Kung Fu and horror. The performances are decent and the action/fight scenes are well choreographed.

The film moves along at a brisk pace. You won't be bored.

There's very little sex or T&A, unfortunately, but I won't hold that against it.

While no "Citizen Kane", This flick is way better than I initially thought it would be. It's a worthy diversion for an afternoon.

With all the absolutely worthless crap that Hollywood releases nowadays, it's a shame this never got a wide (or any) theatrical release.

It seems as if this was intended to be the first of a series. If that's the case, I'd definitely check out any sequels.

My husband and I enjoyed this movie. We had watched a lousy rental the previous evening and were afraid this would be bad also. However, we were pleasantly surprised. The main characters were believable and quite sexy and romantic in their trip to Thailand. We always enjoy a vampire movie with a different "twist" on things and this surprised us. There was Ong-Bak (Muay Thai) type of fighting, beautiful costumes (both men and women), original female Thai vampires and the cinematography was top rate! The beautiful and exotic surroundings added to the mystery of the movie. I would tell others who enjoy a variation on the vampire theme to watch this one.

I first saw bits n pieces of this movie in the mid 2k on Sony Pix channel.

Revisited it recently.

This is the third installment of the Vampires film series although John Carpenter who directed the first film and produced the second film had no involvement with this film.

So now viewers can do their math.

There is one single decapitation scene, an unnecessary bike chase sequence n few unnecessary kung fu or for that matter wi fu scenes.

It has a hot babe, Stephanie Chao but her sex n nudity scene is one of the worst shot ever.

This movie has lots of vampires but no good action or gory stuff.