BloodRayne Movie Review 2005

There are moments in this painful period vampire "epic" where you honestly have to wonder if director Uwe Boll was aware that the camera was rolling. Whatever the excuse, Boll's latest video game movie proves that even sex, gore, and violence can be boring in the hands of the right director. Rayne (Loken) is a half-vampire, half-human warrior who's out to stop her illegitimate father, Kagin (Kingsley), the king of vampires, from... sigh, bored yet? You will be. Even the cast looks half-asleep. (Madsen and Kingsley take "phoning it in" to a new and scary level.) But nothing beats the barely rehearsed fight scenes. A community theatre production of "Braveheart" would have more convincing stage combat.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from German, United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Supernatural Horror, Vampire Babes, Vampires, Adapted from a Game, Fantasy, Russia/USSR, Period Piece: 18th Century, Revenge

Screenplay

Guinevere Turner

Cast

Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Will Sanderson, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf Aday, Michael Pare, Billy Zane, Geraldine Chaplin

Cinematography

Mathias Neumann

Director

Uwe Boll

Music

Henning Lohner

Other

Michael Bartylak, David Richardson, Christian Corvin, Vieru Vlad, Carla Baer, James Steuart

Producer

Shawn Williamson, Daniel Clarke, Boll KG Prods., Herold Prods, Pitchback Pictures, Romar Entertainment