There isn't much more of a story. In fact, there isn't any story. Luckily, Loken is there to provide something to stare at, vacantly.
BloodRayne (2006)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:2
Rotten:44
Average Rating:2.4/10
Consensus: BloodRayne is an absurd sword-and-sorcery vid-game adaptation from schlock-maestro Uwe Boll, featuring a distinguished (and slumming) cast.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong bloody violence, some sexuality and nudity
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Jan 6, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $1,550,000
Synopsis: This action-horror film is set in ancient Romania and stars Kristianna Loken (TERMINATOR 3) as Rayne, a half-human/half-vampire sworn to kill her evil tyrant vampire father (Ben Kingsley). Michael... This action-horror film is set in ancient Romania and stars Kristianna Loken (TERMINATOR 3) as Rayne, a half-human/half-vampire sworn to kill her evil tyrant vampire father (Ben Kingsley). Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, and Matthew Davis play a trio of vampire hunters who ally themselves with Rayne. Based on a video game, this film earns its R-rating by offering a lot more blood, gore, and nudity--and less CGI effects--than most of its modern vamp contemporaries. With all its swords, chained breasts, gushing arteries, and severed heads, BLOODRAYNE seems more like a welcome throwback to those great early 1980s drive-in sword and sorcery flicks. In between the slashing and gouging there are torch-lit castles, nefarious booby traps, blurry flashbacks, and aerial camera shots that swoop down through the gorgeous Carpathian landscapes. Loken, with her fangs and low-rider leather chaps, looks pretty gorgeous herself, and there's a surprising number of name actors in bit parts, including Meat Loaf (as a vamp surrounded by nubile naked concubines), Geraldine Chaplin (as a fortune teller), and--clearly having the most fun--Billy Zane as a bored vampire king plotting to take over the kingdom. It's directed by Uwe Boll, the man who gave us the video game adaptations of HOUSE OF THE DEAD and ALONE IN THE DARK. Cult cinema fans should take this one to--and through--the heart, especially for the chance to see Madsen's period costume and long hair. [More]
Starring: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen
Starring: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane, Will Sanderson, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michael Pare
Director: Uwe Boll
Director: Uwe Boll
Studio: Romar Entertainment
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Reviews for BloodRayne
I’m not sure what Boll sees when he looks through the director’s lens while filming each of his pictures, but I’m certain it’s something different than what the rest of us see. BloodRayne poses no threat to his reputation.
The supporting cast is mind-melting: Michael Madsen is as out of place in this Medieval milieu as Meat Loaf in a hoop skirt, and Meat Loaf is just out of place.
After Rayne breaks out of the circus, it's a simple story, really, about a mixed-up girl who wants to slay her father.
Uwe Boll's best videogame adaptation yet. Wait... what does that even mean?
BloodRayne makes me wish that Mystery-Science Theater 3000 was still on the air. This would be perfect for them.
Only as bad as ordinary bad films and not as bad as getting your eyelid caught on a nail.
[Uwe Boll] is fast becoming known as one of the worst directors on the planet.
When on-line petitions beg directors to stop making films, is that the beginning of the end?
BloodRayne is a movie of unconnected plot dots. In the hands of director Uwe "German Tax Dodge" Boll, a simple sword and sorcery story with vampiric overtones turns into genre-jumping attempts to find an audience.
The fight scenes are the worst kind of editing-room cheating, meant to cover for actors who haven't been trained to wield anything more intimidating than a cell phone.
Just when you thought camp was dead, along comes this bizarre cross between a Tarantino knockoff and a Hammer horror film.
If I thought for a minute this Roquefort-riddled camp-fest was as intentionally ridiculous, stilted, witless and over-the-top as it actually is, I'd congratulate Boll.
With such diminished expectations, one must wonder if it is a good thing that the film is merely bad instead of a cinematic atrocity.
All in all, not as bad as you’d suspect and certainly serviceable for all who love the bloody, low-budget vamping gone wild.
It's time to start paying attention to the oeuvre of German director Uwe Boll. At this rate, he'll become the Ed Wood of this new movie century.
Whatever else you may think of Boll's directorial 'skills,' you can't fault him for inconsistency -- his movies are always atrocious, and Bloodrayne is no exception.
Pic lurches from incident to incident at a graceless plodding place, offering little in the way of genuine excitement -- the swordfights often are confusingly cut and choreographed -- and only minimal amounts of guilty-pleasure titillation.
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