It’s way to simple to say this movie sucks, isn’t it? How about; With such a huge cast of established actors/actresses BloodRayne still manages to be bereft of life.
Rayne (Kristanna Loken) is a vampire, but not your ordinary breed. She is what is referred to as a “Dhampir”, a half-breed. Her human mother was raped by a vampire and Rayne is the result. Rayne is part of a circus freak show until one night she manages to break free and go on a blood-fueled rage. She is hunted by three vampire hunters Vladimir (Michael Madsen) Sebastian (Matthew Davis) and Katarin (Michelle Rodriguez). When she is captured stealing a talisman the hunters find out that she is basically on the same quest they are. They all want to kill Kagan (Ben Kingsley) the “King of the Vampires”.
The hunters take Rayne back to their secret city called Brimstone, and there they train for their next mission. Katarin doesn’t like the fact that Rayne is now deep in their city and seeing everything that no vampire has ever seen. On the other hand Sebastian doesn’t mind, so long as he keeps getting laid. Anyway, Katarin send her father a message of her malcontent. He then dispatches a message to Kagan and has the city wiped off the map. A lot of people die, a lot of blood is shed, but none of it is very interesting.
As many of you might know, I am a big video game fan. Also I tend to watch a lot of movies. The problem is, there are very few instances where a crossover between the two done well. BloodRayne is not one of those examples. Despite the cast I listed above, every scene feels forced and almost like every actor was just phoning it in to get a check. Based on the mediocre video game of the same name, I expected a lot of blood, and a lot of overly sexualized kills. While both of those are present, neither of them made the movie any better.
Everything about this movie just felt like someone was there holding everything back. That “someone” was probably Uwe Boll. This being his third attempt to make a movie out of a video game, it’s really just par for the course. Both Billy Zane AND Ben Kingsley had hair in this movie. That says a lot. In the scene with Meat Loaf (yeah) Uwe hired actual prostitutes to play the naked women surrounding him. Classy. The ending of the film feels completely lifted from Conan The Barbarian. It’s just all bad. It’s not even worth having on in the background of a party. (Quick note; I typed out the opposite of that statement then realized how wrong I was, and changed it.) I can’t wait to see how the TWO sequels turned out. Don’t see this movie, seriously. Just skip it all together.
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