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Video game fans must remain hopeful that there will, someday, be made a satisfactory adaption of a much-loved console or arcade franchise.
Regardless of when it will be made, it will surely not be directed by Uwe Boll.
Barely improving his shamelessly godawful techniques from "House Of The Dead," the German director sets out once more to re-craft (and largely destory) a gamer legacy, this time in the form of the gory, vampire-themed action title, "BloodRayne." Featuring Kristanna Loken in the less-than-enigmatic role of Rayne, a vampire-human hybrid set out to avenge her mother's death by the hands of the big, bad vamp Kagan, the film showcases un-noteable acting, less-than-exciting fight sequences, plenty of bare flesh, and a shameless amount of bloodletting.
Disregarding the video game's original storyline of a pre-WWII demon-slaying adventure, the film takes place in a fictional medieval universe where a vampire seeks the remnants of an enigmatic ancestor to empower himself, while his hybrid daughter seeks his death for the murdering of her mother. The film follows Rayne as she escapes her gypsy-esque captors and becomes integrated into the Brimstone Society, which seeks to bring down the ambitious Kagan.
Told hastily and in a Harry Potter-like chopping fashion, the film's storyline is provided neither depth nor importance, as the contained scenarios hardly reach out to the audience, highlighting little more than the gory battle scenes, the senseless sexual encounters, and some forced moments of American-envisioned glory. The film's main appeal, after having discarded entirely with the foundations of the video game, is to those exciteable by an excess of blood and sex, both of which are presented in unnecessary amounts and without much motivation behind them.
Nothing in particular about "BloodRayne" is outstanding or even beyond average or run-of-the-mill - the story has been told before, the production is reminicent of any weekly television show, the acting is nowhere near award-winning, and there are better fight scenes in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" than in this production. Even a surprise appearance by rock & roll hero Meat Loaf can't lift this film close to the barline, and its inadequacy as even a summer blockbuster can't be masked by the obscene depictions of violence (pure shock factors) that serves as one of the film's foundations.
While the producers can be credited for employing better graphics, costumes, and art direction than depicted in "House Of The Dead" and by exhibiting a gorgeous mountainous terrain in several scenes (truly reminicent of "Lord Of The Rings"), no amount of tidbits can cover up "BloodRayne"'s lackluster portrayal as just another silly action film, and just another bad effort by Uwe "can't-take-a-hint" Boll.
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