came out, I discovered the blinding and wonderful truth of his films. Uwe Boll is a throw back to the great "USA Up ALL Night", staring Shannon Tweed and or Shannon Whirry, & generic slasher films of the early and mid - eighties. These films have a special place in heart for whatever reason. It might be because the represent a special part of movie making, the bad formula film.He makes movies based on a formula, a proved formula. Get a known brand with a built in fan base. 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. Wait to cast the film until the last possible minute in order to get as many "name" stars as you can for as cheap as you can. suprise- many stars take rolls just for a paycheck or because the can squeeze it in between projects and collect a paycheck Throw in gore/mind-numbing action and or nudity and you have yourself a film that will make back it's budget between 10 to 20 million worldwide before it ever sees DVD. Roger Corman made himself a name and a fortune doing this type of film making. I'm not saying that his films are any good or even watchable at times. What I'm saying is that I crack the hell up every time I watch one. Enjoy them for what they are, Huge wastes of someone's hard warned money. I swear that I laugh more at these films than I laugh at films like "Meet the Fockers".Do yourself a favor and rent Alone in the Dark and see if you can keep from laughing when the Tara Reid says New-found-land. It's like angels singing.Roscoe P. Coltrane

the movie a Three, but with the sweet, superb, sensational sex scene I give it a 7. P.S. I am petitioning the government to abolish Vampires in America because even as I write this comment, I fear for my life, the life of my friends, and even my family whom I love to death.

vary confusing to watch, not being able to tell when they end and the present action continues.

been declared a prequel to those games I'm not sure that was the best idea. In the long run using those elements here would make it difficult to use them in the sense they were used in the games. On the other hand some of the more obvious "game elements" are from other games. Some seemed like Nocturne a sort of "godfather" game to the bloodrayne games .In any event, the plot was an important part of the movie, but it's emotionally where this movie is strongest, and weakest.The middle... was the weakest, emotionally speaking. If I had to rate the movie on the middle alone, I'd probably give it half the rating I'm giving it. It felt like exposition, and while it's possible in retrospect for me to step back from the movie and see how most of those parts fit, I found it bit hard to be engaged by the movie during the middle. Some of the characters were portrayed wonderfully, and some parts of the middle of the movie were just great, but some of the characters were portrayed in a fashion I found distracting. Maybe some people will have liked them, but not me -- at least not on my first viewing of the movie.I think the emotional impact of the first part of the movie was the strongest. The ending was good, but it was action-movie good, the beginning was far more emotionally engaging, in my opinion.And, ultimately, this is a movie about Rayne. She's ... some people won't like her. But I did. I'm not going to be able to describe this in detail without turning this into a spoiler, but the aspects of her character that some people are going to resent are what really make this movie.

game. Except for Kristanna Loken's hair… which wasn't red enough and appeared blonde in some scenes... but that would be because of the makeup artist not Kristanna. The fighting was magnificently sequenced and looked realistic. 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. But if you want storyline from this you might as well read a bunch of fortune cookies, because that is all that you'll get here. Heck I have crapped better scripts than Guinevere Turner, she slaughtered what was a great and enjoyable video game. People don't listen to what these sexist bastards are saying. Use your own judgment without using other peoples judgment. And if you want an action film with storyline than you should see something like pulp fiction, not something taken from a freaking video game... common!

my celebrating crew, disaster struck; the movie wasn't playing anywhere nearby. In fact, the closest location was Marysville, Washington, a city about 100 miles south of the one in which we all call our home. It was then that we knew what we had to do. We all drove into our town separately and parked our cars, meeting up at about 8:30 in the evening. That left us with an hour and fifteen minutes to cover the distance. Tragically, the man we chose to be driver his driving skills far surpass our own was unable to get off work. Thinking quickly, we bribed his manager and were on our way by 8:45.Down the freeway we raced, stopping only briefly for gas. Praying that there were no police in the vicinity, we averaged about 100 miles per hour as we sped passed car and truck alike. "I'm gonna be all kinds of angry if we die before we get to this movie," I shouted over the horrible clanking of his rapidly disintegrating engine, "And what in God's name is that noise." The car was shaking violently, but we all knew the risks.At long last we pulled into to parking lot and raced inside. After buying tickets and popcorn, we made it into the theater just in time to see the preview for his next film: "In The Name Of The King." It was then that we knew that this tradition of ours would resume in the coming winter. That was a thought for a later time, however. We sat down and spent the next hour and a half enjoying the underrated brilliance of a particular German director.

type of movie.*** Cons *** As you would expect from a Vampyre movie there was a lot of blood but I think they over did that in the combat scenes. The combat scenes were overly crowded and this made it hard to understand what was going on until the battles were resolved. Some of the dialog and character interplay was stilted and you can blame both the director and the writer for this. And the story seemed a little underdeveloped which I would hold the writer accountable for.This is the type of movie that would be fun to see on an opening Friday night with a lot of fans so that you can watch the audience get excited as the movie unfolds. Unfortunately, my wife and I saw it on a Sunday afternoon in a mostly empty theater. But we still enjoyed it.

Michelle Rodriguez looks delicious as always. I enjoyed seeing her in this. I enjoyed the bloody fight scenes and the vampiric sets. It was a fairly good-humored movie. I can 100% assure you that this isn't one of the 100 worst movies of all time. I can understand that people hate Uwe Boll and deservedly so but this is pretty typical b-movie swashbuckling fare. Nothing really great here but nothing really terrible either. I mean we're not talking about Gone With the Wind here or American Beauty. This is a video game movie and I liked it better than either of the Mortal Kombat movies, which should have been bloodier like this. Well, I hate to find myself defending this movie but it's more fun than most of the reviewers are saying.