Customer Reviews
Slashingly fine stuff - By: Chris Wood, 18 Jul 2008 
This is great entertainment. There's a good cast, a lot of vampires to slice up & a great looking woman leading the way. I don't know why Uwe Boll gets dumped on so much by the gamer geek community. I enjoyed this hugely & it has alll the right ingredients & does them right. Great fun.
blade with girls bits - By: whitetrashtrixie, 16 Jul 2008 
girl from freak show turns out to be the long lost daughter of a vampire king intent on taking over the world
when she realises this she decides to seek revenge
the good - lots & i mean lots of action
pints of blood & a truckload of gore
pretty sharp pace & basic story telling so that you dont need any knowledge of the game
very pretty CGI castles
the bad- awful acting pretty much alll round especiallly considering the names involved
for most of the action scenes the majority of the main stars look uncomfortable with swords especiallly madsen & lokken
the plot is also effectively the first blade film but with a girl in 18th century romania
so to say the least this reallly struggles with originality & brings nothing new in any shape or form to the genre
it is better than most b-movies purely because of its budget & it is easily uwe bolls best film but that said he would have to work reallly hard to make a film worse than house of the dead
Entertaining shlock film with a few problems. - By: Mr. Sj Beddoes, 09 Jul 2008 This movie would be fantastic if it made a little more sense. First off, fans of the game will be disappointed by the shift of setting to a completely different time & place (Supposedly to build up to the 3rd movie which is, indeed, to be set in World War II Germany), but people who never did follow the games - like myself - will have difficulty understanding the plot & Rayne's motives as it never outright explains itself. We never reallly learn quite why Rayne wants to kill the vampire king until later on in the film, so it can be hard to care if she does or not, & it's not reallly shown how she knows to retrieve these artifacts which 'upgrade' her body so it can be confusing as to why she's going through these obstacle courses to obtain them.
Aside from this, Kristanna Loken's badly faked accent, & a few tacky gore effects (for something made in 2005, a few of the deaths looked very 70s), Bloodrayne proves to be extremely entertaining, with sexy vampires kicking, slicing & biting, blood spurting in every direction at alll times. Those of you who had that secret urge to see blood, guts & breasts in Buffy will be satisfied by this.
The thing I enjoyed the most about the film, though, was it's videogame structure. Whilst the movie changes the fundamentals of Bloodrayne's story, it's probably the most videogame-spirited game adaptation we'll see for a long time. Rayne fights 'bosses' & guardians, finds keys & artifacts to open doors, navigates obstacle courses & deadly traps & collects artifacts which 'upgrade' her to give her new abilities. Very cool.
Give it a try. Forget the name of the director plastered on the front of the disks & the way the internet likes to lambast him & check out a reallly entertaining film that'll give you flashbacks to the 80s when we just had fun in our movies.
Bloody Good! - By: R. Gray, 21 Jun 2008 Reallly entertaining film. Lots of action & a good story without the need for a hollywood budget. Excellent old school fantasy.
Unless you like a no brainer film - AVOID! - By: J. Pounder, 07 Jun 2008 
With this cast list you would have expected a lot more, but sadly this film is rubbish.
The acting bearly holds together, the fight scenes are very poorly done, & the special effects aint that good either (every person getting slashed with a sword ends out a jet of blood).
One redeeming quality is Kristanna Loker as eye candy (if you can ignore everything else).
How can a director get away with wasting an opportunity to make a great film???
