BloodRayne (2005) Movie Review, Trailer and Poster

USA, Germany 2005
Director: Uwe Boll
Cast: Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, Udo Kier, Billy Zane, Michelle Rodriguez, Meat Loaf
Rating: R
Release Date: 23 October 2005 (USA)
Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes

The Movie Review

I am sure some of you fellow moviegoers also like to play games, have you seen the movies entitled House of the Dead (2003) and Alone in the Dark (2005)? Both directed by the controversial director Uwe Boll. As a gamer myself, I was very excited when I heard that someone would film those 2 games, but they turned out to be big bummers.

I diffidently admitted having let my guard down when I heard Herr Boll was going to film BloodRayne, since this is one of my favorite games. This time I was quite convinced when I heard Ben Kingsley and Michael Madsen would take parts in this


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Game-based motion picture, though I know that somehow Herr Boll managed to put famous actors and actresses in his previous awful movies, but once again it turned out as not what I expected and BloodRayne has made the third strike. But! As awful this movie is, BloodRayne has managed to set itself apart from other Uwe Boll's films by being fun! Brainless fun with all the B-movie elements galore!

Concerning the film version of the game, BloodRayne tells of a female Vampire named Rayne (Kristanna Loken) who is a half-breed, or better known as Dhampir (a half-human half-vampire). Rayne's mother was a human raped by a vampire king named Kagan (Ben Kingsley) hence Rayne's father. Rayne later discovered by the Brimstone Society when Vladimir (Michael Madsen) heard of the existence of Damphir (half-breed) in a freak show circus in Romania. The Brimstone Society is an organization with the main purpose of eliminating all existing Vampires thus by recruiting Rayne, she would do them big favor since a Damphir posseses the power of vampire but do not thirst for human blood. On the other hand, Kagan is also on his personal mission to obtain the body parts of an ancient vampire that will liberate him from all vampire weaknesses.

If the fans of the original game is starting to scratch their head in confusion, then you are perfectly normal. The storyline of the movie version is very different with the game. But I don't think the story is the biggest deal of this movie anyway. Like I said before, it only serves to give ways for the exploitation elements that all bad B-movie fans love, gory gore with decapitated head and other bloody scenes and topless topless actresses which some of them turn out to be real prostitutes according to IMDb. And so basically this is a pure brainless entertainment far from being the material of any prestigious awards.

And as a film based on video game, it tries very hard to be like one, with all the chasing, the bosses, the mini-bosses, special weapons, enhancing ability, more or les like an RPG (Role Playing Game) game, except while RPG game tries to attach emotional feeling between the gamer and the character in the game, BloodRayne makes the audience feel as if we were watching someone else playing that game, and it would be either a very irritating moment or enjoyable for some people to endure.

It is clear, almost every aspect in this movie looks silly, however thanks to exploitation genre cramped in it, it is stupidly fun. For example, Kristanna Loken looks very chubby and so not cool in Rayne's Suit, but she realizes this perfectly well so she decides to take it off for you moviegoers, the music score is excruciatingly weird but maybe that is what this weird movie needs, and Michael-Mr. Blonde-Madsen saying stupid lines from stupid dialogues.
All in all, BloodRayne is an entertaining movie although in a weird way. So make sure you get the unrated DVD version of this crazy vampire flick!

> Rayne in two more movies from Uwe Boll: BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007) and the cheapo zombo Bloodrayne: The Third Reich (2010).

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