Simply A Masterpiece

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

ShadowTek here...WOW does this movie get a ton of hate or what.. Yes it's low budget, Yes the story is silly.. but come on.. it's not THAT bad. It has the lovely young and naked Kristanna Loken in it, not to mention Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, freaking Meat Loaf, Michael Paré, pre-titanic Billy Zane, the ever sexy Michelle Rodriguez and freaking even Ben Kingsley! I mean.. what more do you want in a movie?Have a sense of humor and enjoy it for what it is.. gees guys.. chill and enjoy.ShadowTek

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.

Both Bloodrayne and Bloodrayne 2 games are highly stylish and visually attractive, have interesting plot and thrilling action. Bloodrayne seemed to be destined to become a highly praised blockbuster. But Uwe Boll stood on its way and failed to execute any of its good features properly into a movie. First of all I should mention the main character of the franchise. In the video games Bloodrayne is a sexy dampire in really good physical shape. She is witty, impudent, sharp-tongued. I don't say Kristanna Loken is a bad actress, but she reveals none of these features in the movie. Why didn't she train to be in good shape in the movie? She was so sexy and slim in Terminator 3, but here all we see is a fat belly jutting out of the "meant-to-be-sexy" Bloodraye red and black costume and a flat shapeless bottom. Of course the way she fights being like this looks very clumsily and awkward. As for the nature of her character, she is shy and modest, nothing similar to the red-haired devil which produces sharp remarks while cutting enemies in halves. On the whole acting in the movie is good, way better than in the 2nd and the 3rd parts. Udo Kier fits the role of Kagan really good, he seems to be one of the few good features of the movie. Michelle Rodriguez is a hostile and mean strong woman, no wonder, almost all character she plays are the same. Bloodrayne's companions portrayed by Michael Madsen and Mattew Davis look natural and interesting enough for the viewers to empathize with them. The plot is quite boring and the setting is very trite for a vampire movie (especially in comparison with the setting of the first Bloodrayne video-game). But at least the there is some plot here, it creates a complete story, in contrast with Bloodrayne 2 and 3. I really dislike the weapons used in the movie, all swords look as if they were borrowed from a poor puppet theatre. Kids' plastic swords look no less realistic sometimes.Anyway, today, when I have already seen Bloodrayne 2 and 3 I can say that the first part is not that awful as it seemed to be from the first sight, but as a movie about our beloved redhead vampire Bloodrayne it is an inexcusable fail.

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.