Daniel Rodrigues So, I'll start by saying I hate Uwe Boll... He doesn't know the meaning of "respect" when regarding movie-lovers... He does this only thinking on profit, and really doesn't give a rat's behind if the movie is good or bad...Still, I think this one is quite entertaining... There's blood, guts and action... I never enjoyed the game, itself, so it's easy for me to see this one without comparing it to the videogame. I prefer to watch this one a thousand times, than only one Twilight... this is a vampire movie for adults, and not any crappy teen romantic flick. It's not outstanding, but it does the trick: entertains...

Paul Magne Haakonsen Granted that this 2005 movie adaptation of a game with the same name, then take it for what it is: an Uwe Boll directed movie version of what I assume is a game that he enjoys. There is nothing more to it, and you get exactly what you would expect here.The story in "BloodRayne" is about Rayne (played by Kristanna Loken), a dhampir (half human, half vampire) living in humiliation in a traveling carnival. When a blood-lust consumes her, she escapes at the cost of several carnival members. Now free from captivity, Rayne sets out to find and kill the vampire that killed her mother.Right, well, at least it is a storyline so simple that everyone can follow it. And the simplicity of the storyline also prevents the audience to be thrown any plot twists or surprises. Yes, this is as scripted and generic as it can be.What does work in favor of "BloodRayne" is the cast ensemble, as they did have some fairly familiar names and faces here. The cast included Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen, Udo Kier, Billy Zane, Michelle Rodriguez and Ben Kingsley. So in that aspect they did have some big enough names to the cast list. How they managed to recruit them for a project such as this is just beyond my comprehension.Aside from a very scripted storyline, then the action sequences in the movie were rigid and poorly executed. It was toe-curling to watch Kristanna Loken trying to pass as skilled with two blades. The only one whom did manage to put on a convincing performance in the fight sequences was Michelle Rodriguez."BloodRayne" is essentially one of those movies that came from a computer game that should never have seen the light of day, as the transition to movie was just awful. This is the type of movie that you watch once, then bag and tag it, most likely never to watch it ever again.

DigitalRevenantX7 Story Synopsis: Medieval Europe. The Brimstone Society, a group of warriors seeking to end the tyranny of vampires forever, discover that Kagan, king of the vampires, has sent his troops to find & bring back a number of artefacts that, once combined, will make Kagan invincible to all forms of attack. At the same time, a damphir (vampire-human hybrid) named Rayne, the product of Kagan raping her mother, flees from the circus troupe where she has been kept prisoner. Her quest to find & kill Kagan causes her to cross paths with members of the Brimstone Society, they deciding to join forces in order to defeat Kagan for good. But Kagan's army learns of Rayne's existence & their spy inside Brimstone's ranks strikes to steal the artefact that they have been guarding.Film Analysis: After making the likes of HOUSE OF THE DEAD & ALONE IN THE DARK, German director Uwe Boll has decided to cap off his hat trick of subpar video game adaptations by setting his sights on BloodRayne, a video game wherein the player controls Rayne, a female vampire/human hybrid who is fighting Nazis in World War II, trying to stop them from acquiring artefacts in an attempt to grant Hitler immortality. As a result, the product of this melding has earned a rightful place in the IMDb's bottom-ranking films list.The original game was quite good & had an interesting plot but Boll (who has a habit of picking the most ill-suited people to write his scripts) made a mistake in hiring Canadian lesbian actress Guinevere Turner to write the script for this one. The Nazis are out (although they would finally appear in the third BloodRayne film), instead having Rayne fight an army of sword-wielding vampires in an attempt to avenge her birth.I've never been an outright hater of Uwe Boll's works. To give Boll his due, his films, while having poorly-written stories, were at least quite slick & delivered on the action & gore. The only reason people hate him is because of his writers failing to adhere to the canon of the games they are adapting – the absence of the 'house' in House of the Dead being a good example. Here, Boll is stuck doing a film that really should have been about a hot vampire chick fighting Nazis in World War II. I would have killed for that (indeed a couple of weeks before writing this review, I've acquired a copy of BLOODRAYNE: THE THIRD Reich & will review it sometime next year – & it had better be good!).As it stands, BloodRayne is just another subpar video game adaptation – in fact even worse than Boll's previous films. The sequels would improve on this (if only slightly) but for now the franchise seems to have had a very messy birth. The story, despite being inconsistent with the original game, at least tells the story of how Rayne came to be & her quest to kill her vampire father. It's sort of a female version of Blade, only set in Medieval Europe.The acting is hideously patchy. Kristanna Loken, having made her debut as the female Terminator in TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, makes the best of not much. She was never terribly convincing in that role & fares even poorly here, although she tries her best to connect with the bad dialogue. The only thing she has going for her is her looks (indeed the one thing that saved her performance in T3), with Boll doing the right thing by video game nerds by featuring her in a (hilariously ineptly handled) love scene, although he holds back on the nudity, annoying those same nerds. Michael Madsen does his usual swagger, although here he looks out of place with his bad wig & either-drunk-or-stoned demeanour. As for Ben Kingsley… well, let me tell you this: the sight of Kingsley baring his teeth & sinking them into a pretty young girl while trashing his good name by appearing here will be worth the price you pay for renting the DVD.

Walter_Skinner Uwe Boll is regarded as being one of the worst film makers of all time. Having seen a few of his movies (Far Cry, Bloodrayne, Rampage, Final Storm) I can say that although he is a terrible director not all of his movies live up to the awful hype. One of the few movies of him that does though is Bloodrayne. Bloodrayne is sinfully dull, and any interest that could be put into the movie is squashed from it being painful to watch. The only way that you could ever actually see this movie and not fall asleep would be if you made a conscious effort not to fall asleep while watching it. The worst part about this movie is that Uwe Boll actually managed to tarnish the careers of otherwise respectable actors such as Ben Kingsley. Despite some criticisms I also like Michelle Rodriguez and thought she was wasted as well. The worst part about this movie is that it is fairly forgettable as well. So if you hope to watch it to find a unintentionally funny scene or to get any entertainment out of it then keep looking.