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BloodRayne
Romar Entertainment

BloodRayne reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 18 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.2 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong bloody violence, some sexuality and nudity

Starring Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane, Meat Loaf, Will Sanderson, Udo Kier, and Michael Paré

BloodRayne takes you to another place and time to experience a world where good and evil battle it out -- with mankind as the very prize. (Romar Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Fantasy  |  Horror  
WRITTEN BY: Guinevere Turner  
DIRECTED BY: Uwe Boll  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 23, 2006 
Theatrical: January 6, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA / Germany 

What The Critics Said

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40
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
There are all sorts of noteworthy people in this silly vampire epic, including acting greats Sir Ben Kingsley and Geraldine Chaplin, but the only artist this critic wants to heap praise upon is the regrettably unidentified Supervisor of Blood Splatter: Nice work, dude.
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40
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.
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33
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
With minimal flare and maximal gore, Boll simply delivers the turgid drama and incompetently staged action sequences that have made him the unstoppable Big Boss of the gaming community.
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30
Village Voice Carla Blumenkranz
Our blood-smacking antiheroine, Rayne (Kristanna Loken), isn't a vampire; she's a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire cross-fiend who's as anguished, strange, and sloppy as mercenaries, or movies, get.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Attention, Ben Kingsley (I mean, Sir Ben Kingsley): It's officially time to turn in your Oscar.
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30
Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Just when you thought camp was dead, along comes this bizarre cross between a Tarantino knockoff and a Hammer horror film.
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25
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
While there's no fun in mediocrity, ludicrousness is another matter. Boll is the best at what he does, and what he does is make truly terrible films.
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25
New York Post Kyle Smith
Semicoherent.
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25
Premiere Jessica Letkemann
Yet another ill-conceived big screen videogame adaptation.
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25
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Why do moviegoers and gamers keep going to see video-game-based movies when neither group is ever happy with the results?
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20
Variety Joe Leydon
Anemic action-fantasy.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Maybe everyone involved was hoping that no one would see this movie, but Madsen is the only one who should fear anyone seeing his work.
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0
Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
Ghastly-bad.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 349 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Lynnie K. gave it a9:
If you like fantasy-horror movies, this is a great one! I don't understand the bad reviews at all! It's very engaging and holds your attention - yeah, some of the editing and dialogue are choppy - but for an intriguing story with atmosphere, it's good. You'll enjoy it!! Doesn't deserve all the panning it got - they just don't understand the genre. (I will admit I laughed out loud at Meat Loaf's scene (bad casting/bad acting) but that can be overlooked. Will probably have a large fan base as time goes on!

Sam L. gave it a10:
One of the best film I have ever seen, excellent chromotography and acting. Although the plot was a bit thin it was made up by the gory action. A+

Travis T. gave it a0:
This quasi-vampire train wreck sucked out all of the goodwill and patience in me. This is, hands down, the worst motion picture I laid my unfortunate eyes on. I haven't seen Alone in the Dark . . . and I am afraid to. We finally found someone who is a worse director than Ed Wood.

Poul P. gave it a0:
Uwe Boll has no talent for making movies his only talent is to make actors do their worst acting. On the plus side now we know how low they'll go and how badly they all can act. With that said the WORST boll film so far.

Scott F. gave it a1:
Huge fan of Bloodrayne 1 & 2 games. Didn't know who Uwe Boll was before this movie. This was literally the worst movie I've ever seen. PLEASE Boll - never make another movie.

Marcus A. gave it a0:
Bloodrayne is tied with House of the Dead for worst movie of all time. I was physically angry at this film. Had less depth in story than a porno. This film will be declared as a catastrophic event. Uwe Boll does not deserve life as well as his fans. I envy the people in the holocaust because they would not have to suffer through this crap. This is another reason why Uwe Boll should not make another film again.

Roger R. gave it a0:
This is without a doubt, one of the worst movies ever; though it competes mightily with Alone in the Dark. Bottom Line unless you are a hormonal male teen with repressed sexual or violent tendencies or a very lonely 30+ year old virgin, there are no redeeming qualities to this film, which makes it an amazing achievement in badness. Many films might have bad acting or bad directing, but only one has accomplished the complete awfulness that is BloodRayne. Bad Acting, Bad Directing, Bad Script, Bad Special Effects ... the badness just doesn't quit. When Uwe Boll reads this he can use my comments above on the marketing piece as: "... doesn’t quit." -Roger

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