not horrible nor great

Disappointment for a huge fan!

A Brilliant Conflict

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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)

Oh, Uwe Boll.It's honestly a shame that he announced he's retiring from directing. ...no, seriously. I mean that. Yes, the man has essentially become the butt of many a joke online and is perhaps the most widely derided and ridiculed of minds in cinema in the last twenty years. And yes, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a part of that... indeed I was. I've written a number of cynical and dismissive reviews of his work. But I can't say that I don't admire the man to a certain extent. He's a passionate filmmaker and a man who loves his work- this much is evident. He wanted to be a director, and by god, he succeeded to at least some extent. And despite my negative comments, I think it's pretty evident that even when I didn't enjoy his work in its intended fashion, I still found great entertainment value in his catalog of films. I wouldn't be watching and discussing them still if I didn't. Granted, it was generally unintended comedic value, but still, I had great fun following his career. And I was always pleasantly surprised by the occasional flash of brilliance that would pop up here and there. So yes, I do think that it is a shame we may never again get to see an Uwe Boll film....but enough of that. Let's discuss "BloodRayne", shall we?One of Boll's earlier stinkers, 2005's "BloodRayne" was his third major theatrical release- at least counting his streak of wide-releases that started with "House of the Dead", and ignoring his earlier lower- budget roots. And coincidentally, it was also his third video-game to film adaptation, taking loose inspiration from the popular hack-and-slash action-adventure franchise of the same name. And while it is perhaps the most competent of his first fistfull of video-game movies, it's also a prime example of vintage-Boll insanity. Rife with nonsensical inconsistencies, amusing miscasting and plot-holes aplenty, it's definitely a very fun watch for fans of trashy, low- brow B-movies, and would make for a good "movie night" with a group of friends and lots of beer!Kristanna Loken stars as "Rayne", a half-human and half-vampire "damphir" who escapes from her life as a side-show freak and takes refuge with the Brimstone Society- a group of vampire hunters lead by Vladmir. (Michael Madsen) Together, they must stand up to a common enemy- Rayne's vile vampire lord father Kagen (Ben Kingsley), who seeks to take over the world using ancient artifacts that will grant him untold power.To give some credit where it is due, the film has a few inspired moments and some fun sequences that are uncommonly well-done in comparison to Boll's early work. While half-baked and far too abbreviated, the early sequences revolving around Rayne's exploitation at the hands of a circus freakshow are well-conceived and give a nice bit of sympathy to the character. There's a fun little sub-plot with singer/actor Meat Loaf Aday that comes unexpectedly and will provide a few minor beats of suspense. And Kingsley is a lot of fun to watch with his weirdly monotone yet oddly threatening take on a devious vampire lord.However, the rest of the film tends to fall flat on his face. Stars Loken, Madsen and an inexplicable Michaelle Rodriguez are all ludicrously miscast and seem in over their heads, leading to many unintended laughs. In particular Madsen, who I'm pretty sure is either heavily intoxicated or deathly tired in most of his scenes. He takes "phoning it in" to a whole new level. The action set-pieces are cringe-worthy in all the best ways, with some of the worst gore- effects and fight choreography I've ever seen in a major release. (Be prepared to double-over in a fit of laughter every time a sword is unsheathed.) Camera-work alternates between bland and flat from one scene to overly intricate and over-stylized in the next, giving it an inconsistent tone. And the actual aesthetic quality on display is on-par with a bad 90's soap opera.Oh, and did I mention nonsensical writing? Because the film is filled to burst with it. Story goes screenwriter Guinevere Turner, a talented artist in her own right, was sort-of bullied by Boll into turning in a crappy, first-pass rough-draft ahead of schedule. And instead of giving her time to fix it up with a second draft like most producer/directors do, he just took it as it was and ran with it, casually re-writing huge portions of dialog and story himself (despite not speaking English all that well) and tossing out pages left and right without discrimination. And good lord, does it show! The script as-is is just brilliant in its sheer incompetence.All in all, if you're a Boll addict like I am and you somehow haven't seen "BloodRayne", you really owe it to yourself to check it out. It's just so much fun in all the wrong ways. It's poorly written. Atrociously acted. Mind-bogglingly directed. And it is most certainly great entertainment in that wonderful, campy "so bad, it's good" kinda way. As a film itself, it's a 3 out of 10. As a piece of unintentional entertainment, however? It's pure gold. And it's a prime example of what I'll miss now that Boll is supposedly gone forever. We'll miss you, Uwe. We might not have liked your films the way you wanted... but we got a kick out of them nonetheless!

Director Uwe Boll happily churns out another piece of Hollywood trash in BLOODRAYNE, a video game adaptation set in a medieval world where a half-human vampire escapes from a carnival in Romania and goes after her father, an evil vampire overlord. Along the way she joins up with a team of ruthless vampire hunters, where the stage is set for a final showdown...Okay, where do we begin? This is a trashy B-movie, yes, but it's no different to a dozen or so others I could mention. B-movie lovers might actually enjoy it, given that it's relatively action-packed and fills the relevant quotients of gore (CGI augmented for the most part, unfortunately) and nudity (brief). The main problem BLOODRAYNE has lies in Boll himself, who shoots the various fight scenes very poorly and who has trouble getting authentic performances out of his cast members.Kristanna Loken (TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES) is the titular character and to say her performance is wooden would be an understatement. She's absolutely terrible; rarely do we see such bad acting from leading actors, but this badness is the stuff of legend. Boll knows this, so he rounds out his cast with a ton of familiar faces. We get Ben Kingsley as the hammy villain, cameos from Michael Pare and Geraldine Chaplin, Meat Loaf chewing the scenery with relish, and even a bewigged Billy Zane, playing it tongue-in-cheek. The main actors are a slumming-it Michael Madsen and an out-of-place Michelle Rodriguez. A weird bald guy, Will Sanderson, seems to be in competition with Loken as to who can give the worst performance. I'm going with Loken.

I want to strike a blow for a movie that seems to be one of the worst movies, when you follow the ratings and verdicts here. But it's easy here to rate one star without watching a movie, and also without giving one thought to.Of course it isn't an artwork, a masterwork, or comparable to high budget productions a la Lord Of The Rings. Instead, it fits right into a solid line of straight-to-video productions, or some bigger TV Adventure movies, but is definitively enjoyable for people who don't expect a lifetime experience from Uwe Boll. But at least, one have to respect the genre outside the Tolkien realm. If not, the movie has no chance at all.It is a simple story about a girl that wants revenge for the killing of her mother by her father, who is the most powerful Vampire, and also wants to be ruler of the world. Kristanna Loken as Rayne does a good Job being sexy, powerful and filled with hate and blood hunger. The others are OK, and Ben Kingsley does keep a low profile, because he has not very much to do except being old Ben Kingsley. Directing is not great, I admit that, it is at max, zealous. Definitevly it is better than in any of the infamous Asylum Movies i've seen, in terms of storytelling, actors leading and so on. The only one bigger mistake is that the short history of Raynes romance with Sebastian is revealed at the end of the movie, so that the short sex scene with him looks quite unfounded.If there wouldn't be so much blood and gore, it could pass as a movie for youngsters. I remember watching such movies (of course without gore and without nudity), when I was ten or twelve.