slayrrr666 "Vampiyaz" is a moderately entertaining, but ultimately dull and dreary vampire tale.**SPOILERS**Years after a failed robbery, Jakeem, (Richard Carroll Jr.) is released from jail and decides to hook up with friend Stacey, (Lila Blake Palmer) an old friend of his. Running into Khalil, (Malik Burke) and Ray, (Randy Clarke) old colleagues of his before he got sent to prison who have become vampires and who tell him of another score still out there that they need him for. Managing to pull it off, he realizes that he has stolen a valuable amulet that can allow a vampire to retain their instincts but become entirely invincible to anything and sneaks off with it still in his possession. Running into Nicole, (Jenicia Garcia) and Cedric, (Jakeem Sellers) vampire slayers who he stole the amulet from who have a gang of slayers ready to take them out, leading to a war between the two sides for control of the amulet.The Good News: This one did have some good parts to it. One of the main things to this is that there's several action scenes which are pretty good. The foot chase through the park is really nice, coming across as pretty intense and actually interesting with the elements present during the course of it all is fun to watch. This includes the bizarre bit of humor where, attempting to flee from the commandos hot on his heels, he stops to fight with a guy over the man's bicycle. Eventually wining and ripping the bike from the guy's hands, he hops on, begins to pedal, is unable to figure out how to work the gears and throws the bicycle in anger. It's very bizarre and unexpected but also quite funny. That is's mixed in with the rest of the solid action allows for a nice divergence, and makes it a little more fun and enjoyable. There's also the great shootout during the robbery, which is always fun and there's also the introduction of the main comedic scene in the film, a deaf riff that produces some good lines in here and it's also really fast-paced. The main one, though, is the big raid on the hideout at the end, which is really the big action set-piece in the film. From the wipe-out of the hunters to the confrontation with the main one and the dealings between the two, it's really fun and actually ends the film on a high. The only other part to this that's worthwhile is the film's pretty enjoyable premise, which isn't exactly new but does feel somewhat entertaining in a weird sense and actually has something to it. There's not much else to this one.The Bad News: There was very little to like about it, and there's a couple of big flaws in this one. One of the main ones is that the film decides on telling the back-story to this is told in twenty minutes. Following the crime and seeing what's happened to them to put them into their current situation takes up twenty minutes of time, forcing the remaining hour of time into the proper story. It has one hour to tell the story, which is pretty interesting on it's own, in the amount of time it has, which is pretty hard to do, and that could've been done in easily half the amount of time. Trim the mansion break-in and lose some of the cutaways and it's certainly a much more workable time slot, but that opening back-story is really hard to get over. The fact that there's pretty much a whole bunch of useless scenes afterward, from the prostitute meeting, that generates no nudity at all in a really-long sequence, to the first meet-up and all the scenes in the motel room that serve to just spread the time out even more are even harder, and make the film's pace in this quite hard to get over, proving to be a major flaw in this. There's also the really bad special effects on display. The blood is just colored water, whenever we get gore as there's very little on-screen deaths or even violence in this one, the prop-guns are visibly store-bought, and the CGI used to simulate the guns being fired is laughable every time it's done, which is really bad in a film with as many gunfights as this one. Less intimidating vampires have rarely been seen on screen, as they're just dudes with fake teeth that look really bad. These all pretty much peg the film as ultra-cheap and not really all that exciting or interesting, as it's hard to stay interested when it rarely makes an effort to force the viewer into paying attention to the film. These here are the film's main flaws, although the pacing of it is the main thing.The Final Verdict: With a couple of really damaging flaws and a couple of parts that are somewhat interesting, this one is pretty hard to recommend. Worth a look for urban-horror aficionados or find the concept interesting, though those look for more complete vampire fare should look elsewhere.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Violence and drug use

Rivan_42 What. This movie is the greatest movie ever made. Why? Because no movie has ever made me projectile vomit during every scene. And by projectile vomit, I mean, I kept falling asleep and when I woke up I hadn't missed any of the plot. In fact, so many lines and scenes were repeated that this 3 hour movie could have easily been edited down to about 20 minutes of fake vampire attacking scenes. This movie caused me to ponder the important questions about life. Such as 1.) Why was some dude wearing a bunny suit to bed? 2.) Why didn't Jakeem/Richard want to put some money in his bum ass pockets? 3.) How could this movie have beaten The Gingerdead Man, Ice Queen, and Troll 2 as the worst horror movie ever made? In conclusion, it will be quite a while before I decide to become a professional lock pick thief. This movie taught me tons of moral values like that. Like for example, you don't always have to bang prostitutes. Sometimes you can just ask them to hold you. Deep stuff. I can't wait for Vampiyaz 2, which can be expected to come out soon based on the intense cliffhanger ending we were left with at the end of the first one.

exchronos As a vampire enthusiast I was quite excited to watch this film, and yet I was disappointed with what I watched.The story has some merit I guess, and the characterization is a little over simplified. They at least seemed to try to make this a good film, and while watching I was ever hopeful that they would succeed.The acting is believable at best, and the urban atmosphere is greatly accomplished. Yet in the end it still leaves something to be desired, and not everything is explained to satisfaction.On the level of being a vampire film I do not believe it adds anything entirely new or sufficient to vampire mythos at all. In fact, the main plot seems to be a thematic rip off of "The Monster Squad" minus the other monsters, hero kids, or scary German guy (that last part may have been a spoiler, not sure though).In conclusion, if you want to see a vampire film with a 99% African-American cast, 1972's "Blacula" is a million times better than this low budget disaster.Sincerely, Exchronos

chakan2 Typically when sitting down to watch a low budget film, I have low expectations. This didn't even meet those. I think the DVD distribution cost more than the entire budget for the film.First off the acting was straight out of a high school play. I can't figure out how you could let some of those scenes through. No one had a decent scene in the entire movie (that's not a joke).OK, it's about vampires; you're not really looking for acting anyway. The special effects, well, also left over from a high school play, and in some cases condiments from lunch. The fight scenes were poorly choreographed and terribly acted out. The gun play is even worse. Look for the CG muzzle flares, big money.Finally, the story…garbage. I've seen 3rd grade kids write better plot lines and dialog (especially involving vampires). It would have been OK had they totally cheesed out and went for comedy, but it's not. It's an attempt at some serious scenes. It's uncomfortably bad, you can't laugh at it, but it's so very terrible.Stay away from this one, total waste of 2 hours.