BloodRayne (2005)

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

In the 18th century, a vampire escapes from the freak show she once participated in and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother. BloodRayne has a great cast of actors such as Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3), Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3), Matthew Davis (The Vampire Diaries), Udo Kier (End Of Days), Michelle Rodriguez (Resident Evil) and Billy Zane (Titanic) now this isn't a good film to be honest the acting is terrible, the effects are not that good good and Uwe Boll is a terrible director but the film is easily a guilty pleasure for me i mean the name of the director says it all and even tho i was ready to hate this film i found it quite enjoyable in a bad way always. (8/10)

Although Uwe Boll has a reputation for being one of the worst directors working today, I have found a few of his films—Rampage, Darfur and Assault on Wall Street—to be surprisingly good. Bloodrayne, on the other hand, sees the director at his worst, the film proving virtually unwatchable despite an impressive supporting cast (Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane, Ben Kingsley, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michael Paré), gore effects by German splatter-meister Olaf Ittenbach, and a gratuitous topless scene from its sexy star Kristanna Loken.Loken plays a half-vampire/half-human pair of breasts called Bloodrayne, who, with the help of a group of vampire slayers, seeks revenge on Kagan (Kingsley), the bloodsucking fiend who raped and killed her mother. This simplistic plot is told in such a convoluted manner that it soon becomes virtually incomprehensible. Boll commands wooden performances from all involved and employs a plethora of irritating, gimmicky film-making techniques, reducing Ittenbach's gore effects to blink-and-miss-it splashes of red (although the unrated director's cut shows much more of these in an end-of-movie montage), rendering the action dull and lifeless, and obscuring Loken's butt with a table during her sex scene.This terrible film has since spawned two sequels (Loken wisely handing over her role to Natassia Malthe), both courtesy of Boll, and both of which have terrible ratings on IMDb. Can't say that I'm very surprised.2.5/10, very generously rounded up to 3 for the OTT splatter in the Unrated version.

Story Synopsis: Medieval Europe. The Brimstone Society, a group of warriors seeking to end the tyranny of vampires forever, discover that Kagan, king of the vampires, has sent his troops to find & bring back a number of artefacts that, once combined, will make Kagan invincible to all forms of attack. At the same time, a damphir (vampire-human hybrid) named Rayne, the product of Kagan raping her mother, flees from the circus troupe where she has been kept prisoner. Her quest to find & kill Kagan causes her to cross paths with members of the Brimstone Society, they deciding to join forces in order to defeat Kagan for good. But Kagan's army learns of Rayne's existence & their spy inside Brimstone's ranks strikes to steal the artefact that they have been guarding.Film Analysis: After making the likes of HOUSE OF THE DEAD & ALONE IN THE DARK, German director Uwe Boll has decided to cap off his hat trick of subpar video game adaptations by setting his sights on BloodRayne, a video game wherein the player controls Rayne, a female vampire/human hybrid who is fighting Nazis in World War II, trying to stop them from acquiring artefacts in an attempt to grant Hitler immortality. As a result, the product of this melding has earned a rightful place in the IMDb's bottom-ranking films list.The original game was quite good & had an interesting plot but Boll (who has a habit of picking the most ill-suited people to write his scripts) made a mistake in hiring Canadian lesbian actress Guinevere Turner to write the script for this one. The Nazis are out (although they would finally appear in the third BloodRayne film), instead having Rayne fight an army of sword-wielding vampires in an attempt to avenge her birth.I've never been an outright hater of Uwe Boll's works. To give Boll his due, his films, while having poorly-written stories, were at least quite slick & delivered on the action & gore. The only reason people hate him is because of his writers failing to adhere to the canon of the games they are adapting – the absence of the 'house' in House of the Dead being a good example. Here, Boll is stuck doing a film that really should have been about a hot vampire chick fighting Nazis in World War II. I would have killed for that (indeed a couple of weeks before writing this review, I've acquired a copy of BLOODRAYNE: THE THIRD Reich & will review it sometime next year – & it had better be good!).As it stands, BloodRayne is just another subpar video game adaptation – in fact even worse than Boll's previous films. The sequels would improve on this (if only slightly) but for now the franchise seems to have had a very messy birth. The story, despite being inconsistent with the original game, at least tells the story of how Rayne came to be & her quest to kill her vampire father. It's sort of a female version of Blade, only set in Medieval Europe.The acting is hideously patchy. Kristanna Loken, having made her debut as the female Terminator in TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, makes the best of not much. She was never terribly convincing in that role & fares even poorly here, although she tries her best to connect with the bad dialogue. The only thing she has going for her is her looks (indeed the one thing that saved her performance in T3), with Boll doing the right thing by video game nerds by featuring her in a (hilariously ineptly handled) love scene, although he holds back on the nudity, annoying those same nerds. Michael Madsen does his usual swagger, although here he looks out of place with his bad wig & either-drunk-or-stoned demeanour. As for Ben Kingsley… well, let me tell you this: the sight of Kingsley baring his teeth & sinking them into a pretty young girl while trashing his good name by appearing here will be worth the price you pay for renting the DVD.

I didn't go through all 400 bad reviews of this movie but it seems I'm the only one who noticed this.Uwe Boll blatantly stole his plot devices from another video game, Castlevania II, Simon's Quest. In the game, Simon Belmont must search the country side in search of parts of Dracula and you guessed it, two of them are "Dracula's Eye" and "Dracula's Rib". Oddly enough these are the only two item out of the five you must find that endow Simon with special power. Dracula's Eye lets Simon enter some areas he couldn't before (Like Rayne can now walk in water) and Dracula's Rib acts as a shield against projectile attacks (Rayne gains super-vampire strength once she has the rib).Let's face it folks, this proves once and for all Uwe Boll is not only a bad script writer and director, he's a thief to boot. Unable to formulate his own ideas, which is probably why he focuses on making bad video game-based movies. The stories are already written for him, he just has to copy it down and ruin it by putting his own special brand of suck into it to make it his.