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66
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63
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61
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61
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56
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Queen of the Damned, The
Warner Brothers
MPAA RATING: R for vampire violence
Starring
Stuart Townsend,
Marguerite Moreau,
Aaliyah,
Vincent Perez,
Paul McGann,
Lena Olin,
Christian Manon,
and
Claudia Black
Based on the third installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the film follows the supernatural adventures of the legendary vampire Lestat, who has reinvented himself as an international rock star. His music awakes Akasha, the queen of all vampires, who is determined to make Lestat her king.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Scott Abbott
Michael Petroni
Anne Rice (novels The Vampire Chronicles)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Rymer
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 27, 2002
Video: August 27, 2002
Theatrical: February 22, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
67
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Nothing near a modern vampire classic. Still, "Queen" is a great dose of vamp camp

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Aaliyah rules as the undead Queen of the Damned, even if she has scarcely half an hour of screen time in this campy Anne Rice vampire tale.

60
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Since the movie arrives and succeeds as entertaining B-movie fare, we may as well appreciate all of its howls, beastly or unintentional.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role he inherited from the utterly humorless Tom Cruise.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
At its best, Queen is campy fun like the Vincent Price horror classics of the '60s. At its worst, it implodes in a series of very bad special effects.

50
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
The original rock songs on the soundtrack, which are supposed to make Lestat ''bigger than Elvis,'' are terrible -- a common challenge for movies about fictional musicians.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is happy to be goofy.

50
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Leaves us puzzled as to why the term "damned" applies at all, when vampirism is depicted as so cool, fashion-savvy and glamorous.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
If you're going because you want to see an entertaining horror movie, good luck.

50
Variety
Scott Foundas
Handsomely mounted, this direly conventional bit of vampire business is enlivened by flashes of humor and game performances. It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
When Queen of the Damned knows it's ridiculous, it's moderately entertaining fun; when it tries to be serious, it's truly ridiculous.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Is Queen of the Damned worthy of its hype or should it have a stake driven through its dark heart? The answer lies somewhere in between.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Maybe in a few years the incoherent gaudiness of this underperforming sequel to ''Interview With A Vampire'' -- will have transmuted into a kind of appreciable camp. Until that time, however, we're stuck with this damned production

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The whole film suffers from a serious case of overplotting, perhaps inevitable when trying to cram two largish novels into one smallish film.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Townsend and Aaliyah are sexy as hell, and clearly willing and able to explore the darker truths of villainy, but they can't compete against the unwieldy script.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Rymer's film doesn't revitalize vampire clichés in any significant way and, frankly, "Velvet Goldmine" is a more seductive movie about sex, death and rock and roll -- and it's not even about vampires.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The result is an exploitation movie that seems like it's about something -- though what exactly I couldn't say.

38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The main theme is the loneliness of the social outcast. That, plus a soundtrack to wake the undead, and the morbidly entombed presence of Aaliyah, will attract an audience despite the movie's intrinsic cheesiness.
38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Like many genuinely awful movies, Queen of the Damned has the ingredients of a cult film.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Abbott, Petroni and director Michael Rymer do exploit the visual and aural cliches of vampire movies from the last 20 years: The creatures wear tattoos, shave their heads, listen to blistering rock and dress in black leather. For a band of societal outsiders, they're pathetically conformist.

30
Village Voice
Jane Dark
Aaliyah fans, as well as fans of charisma, sex, and violence, will be sorely disappointed.

30
Salon.com
Damien Cave
Just as the author's characters suffer through their immortality, as they crave closure and a death to their blood-sucking madness, so Queen of the Damned demands an end to its own misery.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Knows that it's junk and tries feebly to rejoice in its junkiness.
25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
This kind of fiasco turns movie critics into so many Night Stalkers.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Self-serious, pointless and silly.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
What saddened me, however, wasn't the silliness but recognizing the great Swedish actress Lena Olin under a lot of "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" makeup. What a waste.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
A surreal piece of silliness.

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Although the movie is set in the rock world and, therefore, should be a sort of extended music video, it's devoid of even MTV-caliber originality.

20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
"Queen" is a movie that stoops to jokes like calling Lestat's CD "a monster hit"; the movie is just a plain old monster.

10
Film Threat
Gareth Von Kallenbach
Audiences should demand this film be buried never to see the light of day again.

10
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Turns out to be a muddled limp biscuit of a movie, a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms.


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