SETTING: Set during 18th century Romania.- UNRATEDPLOT: A Dhampir (half human- half vampire) named Rayne must help save mankind by killing her Vampiric father.
QUOTES: Katarin: Your form is weak, lacking passion.
Rayne: It was part of my plan. I am tiring you out.
Katarin: Your plan is lacking passion as well.
THOUGHTS: I am a HUGE fan of fantasy, not the Harry Potter type. That's just as bad as the Twilight Series. utterly horrible. ANYWAY, Bloodrayne is decent yet it seems that fantasy is a genre best left to the books and the imagination. Apparently there is no fantasy movie that really grips what the imagination can create. Bloodrayne unfortunately does not hit the mark either, it does have it's moments but the sword fights are lack luster, the acting is......A jagged little pill. Some of the actors are recognizable....which helps, just not enough to save the film.
SYNOPSIS: In the Eighteenth Century, Rayne is the half-human half-vampire Dhampir and the lead attraction in a carnival's freak-show in Romania. When she escapes, she meets a fortuneteller that tells that her mother was raped by the king of the vampires Kagan and she decides to destroy her father. In her journey for revenge, she meets Vladimir and Sebastian, the leaders of the fortress of vampire hunters Brimstone, and she joins their society. She seeks for powerful talismans to defeat Kagan, while the skilled warriors Vladimir and Sebastian train her to face the forces of Kagan and her human side falls in love with Sebastian.
CONCLUSION: Bloodrayne is a film that touches on the excitement of the fantasy realm. It just needs alot of help. A possible ownable film, watched every now and then, just to satiate the fantasy appetite.
RATING: Illustrated journal of Cinematic Division: BloodRayne: 7 out of 10: Uwe Boll is not the next Ed Wood, Not even close.
MY RATING: 3 out of 5, The attempt at the fantasy realm is getting there.....slowly, very slowly, dark and nudity. Not great yet not too bad.
When I think of fantasy movies, the first that comes to mind is Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. Honestly I think his interpretations are the best attempt at bringing a fantasy world to the big screen. I will watch Blood Rayne though. Merely to pass the time, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteOkay, tried to watch this... got 15 minutes in and had to turn it off. I don't know how you made it through. Seeing the cast led me to deceive myself into thinking there might be something there... But the writing and the directing were so bad that even worth while acting talent couldn't overcome the handicap. I wonder if those actors are kicking themselves in the ass over it?
ReplyDeleteWell if you thought this was bad read my post of Bloodrayne 2. There was a moment I seriodusly contemplated stabbing my own eyes out. Then reality struck me.....I was in Kanab, UT with nothing else to do. That film was worse than Eik the Viking.
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