The Twins Effect (2003)

After a woman falls in love with a vampire who doesn't attack humans, her vampire-hunter brother and an evil vampire prince chase him as they race to stop a nefarious plot to unleash Armageddon and wipe out the human race.This was a pretty enjoyable effort overall. One of the best aspects here is the mixture of classic vampire lore and Hong Kong kung-fu with a memorable amount of comedy as this is filled with lots of pretty funny and oftentimes downright hilarious moments. There's some variety too, with a bit of rather clever wordplay at times, a couple of gut-busting scenes featuring a great cameo getting to do his thing, some growing- pains comedy in the very beginning and several other great moments featured throughout. While the comedy is a great part of the film, this is still in most pretenses a kung-fu film and this is filled with some impressive fighters in the genre managing to get plenty of good fights in here. The action from these scenes is really entertaining, from the opening battle on the train to the nightclub alley confrontation and even the final battle, with it's supernaturally-charged fighters pulling off some spectacular choreography in a stand-out, extended battle in an abandoned church which serves as an immeasurable highlight. These here do hold this off from the few flaws, as there's a couple in this. The biggest one is that the romance borders on tedious after a while, since there's not a lot of spoofing or hilarious riffing to be done to make it as goofy as the rest of the movie. Likewise, all the fighting and comedy tend to have the horror elements diminished here not before counting the weak motivation to turn this into a vampire effort as there's not a whole lot to change around to turn this into a traditional human-based fight movie. However, none of these are enough to knock it down.Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

Now really can u call that a movie. I knew some of the movies that Japanese people do are good for nothing but this bad? I mean com'om i fell a sleep three times at this movie. No horror at all, some tiny percent (0.2-0.5) comedy. Action let's just admit that it has some but the scenes are poorly filmed, the actors are pathetic. None of the actors did a good job in it's own role. The were not convincing. The script is also awful. I mean this movie may be great, REALLY, but for the 60's(in not 100% sure.) I recommend NOT to see it, unless you want to get so bored as i did. I can't quite figure hot this movie got it's rating. It's OVER, OVER, OVER RATED!!!. This is a PERSONAL opinion of course. I don want to offend anyone but who could like this crap? So i hope this helps someone NOT to loose some time "enjoying" this movie. Nevertheless it's your choice!

Lotsa action, cheesy love story, unexpected actors and overall great fun. The special effect are acceptable/decent, some of the fighting is kinda neat with some interesting acrobatic moves. The overall story moves along, and is cheesy enough to keep you wondering when the inevitable is going to happen, although there is a bit of a twist (just a small one). The overall naivety of the movie make it quite whimsical at times. Cute enough chicks too what more could you want. PS. if you're gonna review a movie like this, try to review it in terms of the category the movie would fall (not necessarily where it was intended to fall). ie don't bomb out good cheesy movies!

I watch a lot of Vampire movies. I KNOW vampire movies. Hammer Films have always been my favorites. Christopher Lee will always be the best Dracula. Vampire Effect is a fun movie from the beginning to the end. The dubbing is not great, but I also like Godzilla movies, so I am used to badly dubbed movies. Anyway, I liked this movie very much. The SFX are great. Even though Jackie Chans part in the movie has nothing to do with the plot and seems to be added to sell the movie, he is enjoyable in it. The Fang work is excellent. The acting is not great, but this could have something to do with the bad dubbing. Maybe the actual language would sound better with the movie if I could understand it. I am sure the movie Gone With The Wind sounds worse in another language.I own this on DVD and would not part with. I have it sitting on my bookshelf next to my Hammer Films DVDs.