Kimera |
 | Summary:Farcical anime horror/thriller follows vampire legions' raid upon planet Earth. Despite some interesting aspects, it's convoluted premise, risible character development and uneven animation throws off mainstream viewers. |
| Title Aka: | N/A |
| Company/Distributors: | Kazuma Kodaka;Seiji Biblos;Toho International Co LTD.;A.D.V. Films |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Length: | 50 Minutes |
| Rating: |  |
| Genres: | Horror, Science Fiction |
| Format: | Feature Film |
| Content Level: | N/A |
| Comments: | N/A |
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Synopsis:
One night, a civilian comes across a capsule which burried itself into the earth after falling from space. Shortly afterwards, the human is killed by a powerful vampire. Within this ship lies a top-secret scientific experiment which attempted to uncover the mystery of these vampire creatures from outer space. But now, the specimen had already been carried away in a military controlled vehicle. Frozen within a capsule is "Kimera", a once full-human now half male and female vampire-like being; designed to carry on the race of the creatures by means of reproducing. Kimera has been studied and may finally be reaching a point of genetic understanding from the many scientists. When a young man named "Osamu" and his friend "Jay" happen to come across meeting Kimera, Osamu falls in love with her. Though she bears the characteristics of a male, she is capable of reproducing with both sexes. This fact however, does not begin to bother our hero. The vampires' entire motive has been to send Kimera to Earth in order to destroy the human race and leave the Earth empty for the taking. Kimera's half brother vampire "Kianu" actually was in love with her for a time. Tensions clash when Osamu learns of the motives of the vampires, and leaves it up to himself to wipe them out. Little does he know that Kianu's older brother has been ploting to destroy Kimera all along. It's an all out action-laden bloodbath for the future of mankind in this supernatural anime horror.
Review:
It's a funny thing, but actually "Kimera" nearly manages to save itself from it's often unmistakably fixed premise of the typical B-grade horror flick. From the start, the film seems to waste no time in presenting itself in it's entirety as your typical anime vampire film. The only difference is is that "Kimera" is indeed not a vampire horror movie, but in fact something else entirely different. Though it could be classified as quasi sci-fi, the film is for the most part about a potentially interesting, and yes; weird main character. Kimera is a short film, with an array of characters which tend to contain no structure whatsoever. For instance, Osamu cannot avoid the various anime flaws as an impeccably naive and 2-dimentional character. Sadly this is a film which could have been half interesting, if it had avoided the inevitable fact that this premise is wasted on a little-less-than-60-minute feature. The movie is hardly an action or decent horror, instead it wastes nearly half it's time on a convoluted basis about an (literally) underdeveloped and rather ridiculous character, as well as a plot which is almost as pitiful as it's animation quality. Technically speaking, "Kimera" is a downright disaster. The animation is not even of a decent OAV film quality, and is based around some very bland character designs and artwork. Though it is an anime film, Kimera is like watching a 1:00 A.M. horror serial on late night U.S. television. The films is also (amazingly), equipped with enough inappropriate plot twists and moments of dialouge which serve apsolutely no perpose whatsoever. It's often sad to witness that this is all somehow welded around a series of sequences which are in fact some of the worst (& ridiculous) animated segments of action I've ever seen. Kimera is a film which is hardly worth a look, lacking any redeeming qualities whatsoever. The result is something rather boring and pointless. I've seen these sort of premises done vastly better in anime films like "Vampire Hunter D", which was already bad enough for my taste. If your even half curios about how stupid this movie really is, go right ahead and waste $1.00 for a local rental. One thing is for certain though, you won't see a reviewer like this one making that same mistake again on pointless titles like Kimera.
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