Language - English
Genre - Vampire, Action
A group of Goths sit in the ‘Transylvania’ night club discussing
vampires, mainly would a vampire work and if so what would their perfect job
be. Most of the table laugh when Lilith Silver suggests that they would
make a good hit man. What the rest of the table don’t know is that Lilith
is speaking from experience as she is both a vampire and a hit man know as the
angel of death.
Lilith starts of the film by explaining that, just like normal humans
Vampires get bored and so they have to find ways of keeping
themselves entertained. To this end Lilith has become a hit man, a job
that not only necessities working in the dark but also helps find victims to
feed off. Lilith’s current assignments are all members of a secretive
cult and, as part of the hit she must also collect the ring that they all wear
but, due to unexpected security she ends up leaving it behind on her first hit
of the film.
Unknown to Lilith the head of the cult, Sethane Blake, is the man who turned Lilith into a
vampire in the first place. Sethane knows that there is a hit man
targeting his organisation and so he sends Detective inspector Price to
investigate, Price being a member of Sethane’s organisation. As Price
investigates the hits he begins to suspect that a vampire is involved but, of
course no one believes him.
Lilith begins to
look into the cult but things come to a head when her client kidnaps her
handler, Platinum because he is not happy that she missed the ring on one of
the hits. Lilith is then in a race to save Platinum life whilst avoiding
Inspector Price.
I found Razor
blade Smile a bit disappointed. The story has potential but the dialogue
is is not that good at times it’s trying to be too gritty and just
results in way too much swearing. As the film progresses Lilith goes from
spouting really naff puns to telling us the rules of being a vampire. It seems
slightly unnecessary to have Lilith tell us the rules as they are normally
being played out on screen at the same time. A lot of the dialogue also
seem slightly forced.
There seems to be
an attempt in the first half of the film to include as much sex as possible
without turning it into porn. Some of it
is an attempt of character building between Lilith & Platinum but it seems
to distract more than build as they are trying to show that Lilith cares for
him. Other sex scenes are meant to show the relationship between the
vampire feeding and pleasure; we even have Lilith giving a voice over to tell
us this. I have nothing against sex in movies and it is used in other
vampire movies to better effect but in razor blade smile it does just seem to
be an excuse for a bit of titillation.
As the film
progresses the story does start to fill out but only starts to deliver on its
promise on the last few scenes with the relationship between Lilith &
Sethane being one of the best plot devices.
At times there is
a feeling that Razor blade smile is trying to be a bit of an art film with the
flashbacks to Liliths past being shot in black and white with splashes of colour.
I’m not sure if i would recommend razor blade smile as good vampire film, i remember enjoying it more when i was younger but now it just seems full of distractions from the story
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