BloodRayne

Plot synopsis:
Rayne (Kristanna Loken) is a "dhampir", the offspring of a human mother and a vampire father. Her father is Kagan (Ben Kinsley), and Rayne watched him slay her mother when she was about seven years old. Ever since, Rayne has vowed to avenge her mother's death by killing her father. There are others who are also fighting against vampires like Kagan. At some point in the past, Viscount Elrich (Billy Zane) created a secret society called the Brimstone. His daughter Katarin (Michelle Rodriguez) continues to run Brimstone, even though Elrich eventually was turned into a vampire himself. Katarin and her two friends, Vladimir (Michael Madsen) and Sebastian (Matthew David), provide the backbone for the rest of the 30 or so members of Brimstone. They are currently hiding in a fortress somewhere in the Romanian countryside.Working in a Carnival as a sideshow freak sometime in 18th Century Romania, dhampir Rayne is routinely burned by holy water, stabbed, and fed sheep's blood so that she can heal instantly, all for the amusement of the paying onlookers. When news of her performances gets around, three members of the Brimstone, a secret society of vampire hunters, set out to find Rayne. Unfortunately, Sebastian, Vladimir, and Katarin arrive the morning after Rayne has escaped the Carnaval, so they are forced to pick up her trail and keep searching. Rayne has joined a group of travelers, who drop her off in a nearby village where she is summoned by a fortune teller (Geraldine Chaplin) who tells her that her father is Kagan, the most powerful vampire in the land. Rayne reveals that Kagan raped and later killed her mother, and asks the fortune teller how to find and kill him. The fortune teller tells her about "the eye," a talisman which Kagan is seeking. If Rayne could get the eye, which is kept in the Solambrium Monastery, she would be sure to get an audience with Kagan.Rayne doesn't know it, but Kagan has also been searching for her. He's had one of his vampire henchmen, Domastir (Will Sanderson), pick up her trail. Domastir has overheard what the fortune teller told Rayne about the eye. When he relays the message to Kagan that Rayne is going in search of the eye, Kagan orders that Rayne be watched and, when she does get the eye, she be killed.Rayne heads for the monastery, followed by both the three Brimstones and by Domastir with his band of about a dozen thralls. The monks give Rayne dinner and a place to rest for the night. While everyone is asleep, Rayne sneaks around looking for the eye. She kills a deformed monk in order to get the key around his neck, uses the key to open the chamber where the eye is kept, dodges rotating blades to get to the pedestal where it sits, but the moment she picks it up, the doors slam shut and the room begins to fill with holy water. She leaps to the ceiling where she hangs upside down to escape the water. While waiting, she looks at the eye, which is suddenly assimilated into her own eye. Suddenly, the chamber door opens up, revealing the head monk (Udo Kier). He tells Rayne that the eye has made her impervious to water. The eye is actually one of three talismans -- an eye, a rib, and a heart -- that belonged to a long-dead vampire named Belial. Belial found a way to protect vampires against water, sunlight, and crosses. Upon his death, his body parts were scattered in fear of some vampire getting hold of them and becoming invincible. Because the eye has now become apart of Rayne's body, the monk won't let her leave the monastery.Suddenly, a shout rings out that the monastery is being attacked. Domastir and his thralls begin knocking off monks right and left. Sebastian, Vladimir, and Katarin join the fight, but it is Domastir who succeeds in knocking out Rayne and riding off with her body. Katarin is ordered to return to Brimstone to tell them that Domastir has Rayne and that Rayne has the eye, while Sebastian and Vladimir pursue Domastir. Because day is approaching, Domastir is forced to take shelter at Leonid's (Meat Loaf) palace of prostitutes, vampires, and other decadents. When Leonid lays eyes on Rayne, he wants to add her to his collection, but Domastir says that Rayne is for Kagan. However, when Leonid learns that Rayne has the eye, he has Domastir placed in chains
and means to get the eye from Rayne even if he has to cut it out himself.Sebastian and Vladimir have infiltrated the palace. They come upon Rayne just after she's been stabbed several times by Leonid. Vladimir tosses a blanket over Rayne and shoots out the windows, allowing in the sunlight. Leonid burns to death, and Sebastian and Vladimir carry Rayne's body back to Brimstone headquarters. They place Rayne in a cell, but Rayne promises not to feed from then and asks only for animal blood so that she can heal and get on with her business. A few rats later, Rayne is healed. Vladimir convinces her to stay and train with Brimstone so that they can attack Kagan together. A new set of clothes and a fresh sword, and Rayne is ready to go.Although Rayne's stay at Brimstone seems to have given morale a shot in the arm, Katarin isn't pleased by Rayne's presence. In her correspondence with her father, the Viscount Elrich, the two of them express the belief that Brimstone is lost, although Elrich continues to protect the secret location of the Brimstone Society in order to protect his daughter's safety. On the other hand, Elrich is plotting to unseat Kagan. Meanwhile, Kagan has obtained the rib talisman and has ordered his thralls to comb the land for Brimstone's location, destroy everyone in Brimstone, and bring Rayne to him.After arming themselves with gunpowder, swords, and holy water from an arms dealer in town, Vladimir, Sebastian, and Rayne return to Brimstone. Before they reach the fortress, however, they are met by a wounded patriot. With his dying breath, he reveals that Katarin has betrayed them and that everyone in Brimstone is dead. That night, while Vladimir and Sebastian sleep out under the stars, Rayne tries to sneak off on her own. When Sebastian wakes up and tries to stop her, Rayne confesses that it is because of her that all those people died and that she's going to go it alone from now on. Also, she intends to find the heart talisman because she thinks that will give her the fighting edge against Kagan.Rayne's first stop is back at the Brimstone fortress, where she finds everyone is either dead or dying. Suddenly, she hears voices and hides behind a wall. It is Domastir telling his thralls that the damphir's body is not among the victims and that they must return to tell Kagan. Rayne goes looking deeper in the fortress and comes upon Katarin looking for the heart, which she tells her companions was buried by her grandfather at the bottom of a pool of water. Katarin dives into the pool to retrieve it, and Rayne follows. Katarin stabs Rayne in the abdomen, grabs the talisman, and begins swimming to the surface. Rayne follows. When they reach the surface, Rayne grabs Katarin, slits open her neck, and drinks her blood, which immediately heals Rayne's wound. As Katarin lies dead, Rayne now has the heart and she leaves to confront Kagan.Fearing that Rayne is no match for Kagan, Vladimir and Sebastian saddle up their horses and ride to Kagan's castle, where they hide in the bushes, waiting for Rayne to show. When she does, she rides straight to the gate and calls out, "I am here for Kagan." Rayne is immediately escorted to Domastir. She gives him the box with the heart in it and asks to see Kagan, but Domastir tosses her in a cell in the dungeon until it comes time to remove the eye. He then takes the heart to Kagan. In order to get inside the castle, Vladimir and Sebastian storm the front gate and are immediately captured by the guards and placed in a cell near Rayne.It is time for the ceremony that will remove the eye from Rayne and unite it with the heart and rib. Rayne is escorted to the ceremonial chamber and tied to an altar while they ready the knife. Meanwhile, Vladimir and Sebastian have tricked a thrall into entering their cell, overpowered him, and managed to escape. They storm the ceremonial chamber and start whacking away at the guards. Sebastian cuts Rayne free. Meanwhile, Kagan has opened the box which holds the heart and found it empty. He runs his sword through Vladimir and then turns on Rayne. They cross swords several times, managing to stab each other, but Kagan ends up on top. As he prepares to cut out Rayne's eye, Sebastian tosses Kagan a bottle of holy water, then shoots an arrow into it. The bottle breaks and the holy water eats away at Kagan's face. Rayne takes the opportunity to thrust an arrow through Kagan's heart and he turns to dust. With Kagan and Vladimir both dead, Rayne runs to Sebastian. He is also severely wounded. Rayne offers to turn him, but he refuses and dies in her arms.Rayne, the sole survivor amid the carnage, takes her seat on Kagan's throne.

Tags: gothic, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge

Review:
The root canal work of movie making, the Xanadu of awfulness....Meatloaf trying to character-act.I checked out the other movie-goers...hmmm, not many left....and they were all, very much like myself, staring wide eyed and open mouthed at witnessing the birth of a legend.
Boll at least knows that the audience for a film based on this video game expects to see blood, and a lot of it.
In essence, by waiting until the last possible moment to hire actors, he can make his movies with a secured budget.Th reason why I write this is because I heard his new "epic" In the Name of the King will be a four hour film split in half like Kill Bill.
Maximum respect for the mullet Matthew, wear it proudly.Of course you do get to see Kristanna Lokens boobs in a raunchy, makes no sense at all, sex scene so that also is a good thing.I must point out that fight scenes, although they occur pretty rarely, are pretty rich with gore.
Then again, the topless babes in his scenes totally make up for his fat ass.The director Uwe Boll isn't really that bad as people say he is.
I laughed at a lot of the acting and dialog, and the fight editing was a nightmare, but in the end, I still had a decent time with the movie.
Yes, actually story in a Bolle video game movie!
For any other director this movie would be a total disaster, but looking at Bolle's past video game adaptations I would have to say that he is improving in leaps and bounds.
I know a lot of people are going to just breeze past this review, but I have to say, I have seen some REALLY bad movies, and this isn't one of them.
It's got a decent plot, some good acting (and some REALLY bad acting), and it's got action.I have a feeling that the Dungeon Siege movie will suck though.
After watching BloodRayne, I am thoroughly convinced Uwe Boll will eventually make a good and entertaining movie (five years from now at the very very least.) As Alone in the Dark was a step up from House of the Dead, BloodRayne is a step up from Alone in the dark.
Unfortunately, before he gets there Boll will have to continue to trek through the vast expanse of mediocrity one baby step at a time, and there is far more entertainment from a shamelessly bad movie than a merely mediocre one.The opening credits take place over a nice little montage of paintings, then moves to a sunset in the mountains effectively establishing the mood in a surprisingly competent fashion.
I found myself entertaining the idea, "You know, maybe  just maybe Boll finally made a good movie." Then just like Alone in the Dark, the first actor opened his mouth and my hopes collapsed.
It reminded me of that look pro wrestler gives during their pre-match smack talk rants (which I, try as I might, can't watch with a straight face) ,and from hence forth I saw Domastir as the little wrestler who couldn't.As for Rayne, herself, Kristanna Loken does an admirable job of wanting to go somewhere with the role despite being trapped by a film that's lost.
BloodRayne is like a baby's first step, reluctantly letting go and making an unstable effort to walk  letting go of the blatant rip offs ("homages" on steroids) and finding its own style.Uwe Boll's not there yet, but he's getting there  one step at a time..
Nevertheless there was one sex scene.This movie has very good cast, take Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen and Kristanna Loken.
(in this case, video games that are past their shelf life.)Put this brand into a profitable movie genre such as teen sex comedy (I'm looking at you National Lampoon) or horror film.
If you watch this with the mindset the Uwe Boll is not a Hollywood director, but he does have a lot of heart, you very well may enjoy this film..
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.
While I agree that Uwe Boll should be making low budget videos or used car commercials until he learns how to direct, this movie was not all that bad if you overlook some of its obvious failings.
I'm just ticked off that she didn't accept the role for Bloodrayne 2.Even though a movie that Kristanna is currently working on, A king's Tale, and even though it is again directed by our friend Mr. Boll I like Jason Statham and Ray Liotta.
My first stop is "Bloodrayne", Uwe Boll's third video game adaptation and, impressively, his least entertaining, interesting and fun movie so far.
Whereas "House of the Dead" was so bad it had its moments of unintentional comedy, and "Alone in the Dark" was simply too empty and forgettable to count among the all-time worsts, "Bloodrayne" made me seriously consider killing myself before I had come half-way through.
Why do the corporations keep giving visionless Uwe Bowl any money to make bad video game movies.
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 for Sebastian."Bloodrayne" is a great vampire movie and absolutely underrated in IMDb. The locations and cinematography in Romania are magnificent and I believe it would be impossible to build sets so spectaculars in another country; the cast is excellent, with Sir Ben Kingsley, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis and the gorgeous Kristanna Loken; the story is full of action and the characters are very well developed.
Nothing like over annunciated crap lines to make a bad movie really stand out.I won't even try to explain the plot because there really wasn't one.
There was no point to the movie at all and I didn't care what happened to anyone.Billy Zane was great, Meatloaf was brilliant, but everyone else was just bad.If you took Interview With a Vampire, the Dungeons and Dragons movie, and maybe the sequel to the Dungeons and Dragons movie, plus the Conan the Barbarian cartoon series and that vampire movie with Jim Carrey for good measure, and threw it all into a pot but made the main character a girl who can't fight but manages to defeat the world's most powerful vampire and you gave a lot of main characters raging mullets then, and only then would you have something like Bloodrayne.This movie made me wish I was watching Underworld..
This movies fighting scenes were so bad that the blood squirting out looked like someone popped a balloon full of red water.
I've liked Vampire movies and stories since childhood and although I prefer "old school" vampires (like Dracula) I do think the modern ones of this kind have a kind of cool appeal as well.The cast includes some enormously capable actors: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madden, Michelle Rodriguez.
The motivations of the major characters are reasonably clear, if one-dimensional, and there is at least some attempt to give Rayne more depth than her type is usually allowed, which pays off in the ambiguous final shot.I suspect that many people have watched this film expecting it to be wretched, given the reputation of director Uwe Boll.
As well as seeing whether one of the worst directors of all time Uwe Boll was capable of making a good film.
(But then, she just plain looks good, so what can you expect?) Personally, I think Ewe Boll is a very talented director who's trying to make English speaking movies in spite of the fact it is not his primary language.The line deliveries just don't sound right, and a lot of the conversations just don't quite flow or fit..
Kristina Loken is really attractive and she plays her part well and Ben Kingsley is a good bad guy.I admit I've never played the video games so I don't know how it relates to the video game, because the previous scripts for House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark barely had anything to do with the games.
For this film to be based on a pretty good game, they should have come up with a better plot.
Now if you do want to point and say an actor did bad like everyone keeps doing, than you can point at Matthew Davis whom looked as though he were smiling even at the most odd moments.If you like pointless action packed films, with a lot of blood, and you don't mind a female star, than this movie is right down your alleyway.
House of the Dead for me was a truly painful experience and Alone in the Dark, although better, still felt like eating a sloppy turd (dont ask me how i know what eating a sloppy turd feels like...) I watched this film because of mainly 2 reasons: 1 - To see if Uwe can get redemption from his earlier game to film adaptation.2 - I am a big film fan, and like the vampire / horror genre.The film is purely awful from start to finish.
This movie is so bad you even wonder why Billy Zane would be in it, let alone Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen and Ben Kingsley.
There are many things that have already been said about this movie and Uwe Boll so i will try to focus on the positive aspects (although they are few and far between).This is the best of a bad bunch of films by a terrible director hence the 2 stars i gave it (the rest of his movies deserve 1 or below).
It remains a mystery to me how Uwe can get the talented actors to appear in his movies and how he manages every time to pull the worst performance of there career.The exception in bloodrayne is Michelle Rodriguez who manages to be convincing even with the lack of direction and awful script i only hope the movie does not damage the careers of any of the other amazing actors who appear in this crapfest.Despite being burnt time and time again i'm sure i will watch dungeon siege (i'm also pretty sure i'll hate it and kick myself again) and will continue to hold on to the slight hope that one day Uwe will actually make a good job of one of his movies because the video game fan in me still gets excited by the concept of game to movie franchise's.If you are like me regardless of what I or anyone else says you will watch this movie just remember when your trying to throw yourself off a bridge for putting yourself through another Uwe Boll flick that one day he will be dead it is that thought alone allows me to continue to watch his crap.I tried to focus on the positive aspects of this movie but after proof reading what i wrote i can see i failed, oh well i did try..
I'm saying it's wicked because according to the trivia fact for this movie (thank y'all for giving us the best in movie info!), real...well, I don't wan't to give away info for this, because like I mentioned in another review of mine, parents might be showing this stuff to their kids.My advice to you: watch "Bloodrayne" and have a good time!
Acting sucks, CGI sucks, makeup sucks, the sex scene sucks the most of it all, god, what a random sex shot.I guess for Uwe Boll it's not a great deal to actually lose a great part of his money producing films like these, and neither is for studios.
I was expecting cheese like House of the Dead or Alone in the Dark - both movies I enjoyed simply for the action and special effects.
I think they're upset that Uwe Boll keeps making god awful movies based on the ideas of video games showing he has absolutely no skill as a director.
Granted I have a "If it's based on a video game it's going to be crap" mentality but that's probably because of directors like Uwe Boll who should be playing games instead of making movies based on them..
The action is almost non stop, the story moves along at a decent pace and there's loads and loads of blood.If you like other Uwe Boll films there's a chance you'll like this, it's a Diet Vampire film sort of the matrix of neck biter films, plenty going on but not too deep to bore you.The acting isn't the best i've seen but all of the characters are interesting enough and Bloodrayne is played well even though the look from the video games isn't quite there.
I suppose we offended the other movie patrons, but it was hard to tell, as the other couple there was making out and never seemed to come up for air, while the one other guy there was on his cell phone the entire time (likely calling all his friends warning them about the movie).I actually enjoy a number of campy B Movies, I'm a fan of most of the Troma Films myself, but to take a good video game with a strong story and utterly destroy it with terrible directing, dialog that seemed written for and performed by grade school children (my 4 year old's preschool talent show was more entertaining) and craptacular editing should be criminal.I can only hope that Uwe Boll loses enough money on this venture to prevent him from ruining other video game based movies..
There are some movies that are so bad that they are actually fun to watch (any Ed Wood film for example).
No video game can ever be as good as Resident Evil and I think people are expecting it to be....Just watch it for what it is a great movie that is based off a great video game.
of course it's all ludicrous, get over it, go watch another type of movie and get a life, don't you know what type of films you like by now or are you all 17 ?
This one is a very good movie and I can't understand how some guys can say the Film sucks, just because is made by Uwe Boll.The movie is great, the actors are great and it was a lot of fun for my friends and me to watch it!
I'm a fan of the Bloodrayne video game series and this is the only reason I went to watch the movie, that and Kristanna Loken of course.
Bloodrayne is supposed to have a very Gothic atmosphere but instead Uwe Boll decides to set the atmosphere at a trick-or-treat level.By the time I was done watching this movie, I realized that my eyes bled.
I read somewhere in a gaming magazine that maybe it is not the film makers we should blame for making bad movies.
This so called awful movie had some nice gore and want not but it wasn't anything I am going to cry to the world about.Bloodrayne also isn't a great game to boot, but it was made and I was pleased with what I watched.
The only reason I gave it a 2 is that I like Michael Madsen and that Kristanna Loken is one good looking girl.
Can we please lock Uwe Boll up for good and never let him within 100 miles of a film set ever again?BloodRayne is a video game adaptation.
And this isn't even a half- baked attempt, this is just an exercise in really, really bad film-making.The acting is absolutely horrible and all I can suppose is that the likes of Rodriguez, Madsen and Kingsley must have been desperate for a paycheck.
I think she was trying anyway, it's hard to tell with such a bad actress.I can't comment on the story but I'm pretty sure there wasn't one.Uwe Boll was too busy counting his money from his German tax cuts to actually direct any portion of this movie.
Like a real fan of the PC game I thought: "This movie can't be so bad, It just can't be so simple and flat, so empty and horrible as the people say." After I saw it I had to change my mind.
When I first heard a Bloodrayne movie was coming I had a lot of bets on it, yet all hope and expectatives vanished when I heard who the director was: Uwe Boll.
After forcing myself to see this movie the other night because a few of my friends are into vampire flicks, I actually thought it could have been worse.Uwe Boll has made some bad movies, but this one is different because it makes you think at some points in the movie, like "I wonder if Hoodwinked was any good?" See it only if you like the video game.I would give the movie a 7 out of 10, but that's being too nice.
...don't like Uwe Boll and thus could not judge the movie on its merits, or...are video game fans who had very specific expectations for this movie and again, were unable to look beyond that, or...
Uwe boll demonstrates his total lack of film-making skills once again with this poor and lifeless excuse for a vampire movie.Everything that a movie can do wrong is on full display in this trainwreck from beginning to end, including a weak and non-sensical plot, idiotic characters, cheap effects, boring action sequences and a cast of talented actors delivering performances so bad that it feels like they were performing at gunpoint..