Thanks to Lucy Liu, I was forced to watch Rise. I was not really planning to watch any movie that day but since I saw Lucy on the picture, so I thought this would be one hell of an action-packed movie. I can still remember Lucy kicking ass in Charlie’s Angels and Kill Bill.
Well, much to my disappointment, this is not one of Lucy’s best moments. I even think this is her worst movie ever. The story is not good to begin with and the action scenes, which I thought would be the film’s salvation didn’t do great either. Everything was a bloody mess, no pun intended.
Lucy’s character didn’t develop properly and it lacks the charisma that she used to display on screen with her previous movies. I saw a weak Lucy and that is never a good thing. She is supposed to be stronger than usual since she became a vampire but the opposite happened. It was terrible.
Anyway, for you to know what the movie is all about, here it is:
Rise is a supernatural thriller in which a reporter (Liu) wakes up in a morgue to discover she is no longer among the living. She vows revenge against the cult responsible for putting her there and hunts them down one by one. Chiklis plays “Rawlins,” a haunted police detective whose daughter is killed by the same cult and seeks answers for her gruesome death.
Sadie Blake, a reporter, becomes fully aware of the fact that she somehow died when she wakes up in a morgue. She then attempts to gain revenge upon the vampires that killed her by hunting them one by one. She is helped by Detective Clyde Rawlins, whose daughter was also killed by that same vampire clique.
