Directed by:
Mark WatersScreenplay:
Daniel WatersCinematography:
Tony Pierce-RobertsComposer:
Rolfe KentCast:
Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Dominic Sherwood, Cameron Monaghan, Sami Gayle, Sarah Hyland, Claire Foy, Ashley Charles, Edward Holcroft, Chris Mason (more)VOD (1)
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American teen vampire fantasy. The film is set in a world where vampires have fully integrated themselves into society and have become accepted into everyday life. However, the many different races of vampire means that the vampires themselves are not always accepting of each other. Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch), who is a Dhampir - meaning she is half-human, half-vampire - is training to be a guardian for her good friend and member of the royal Moroi bloodline, Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry). As they return to the boarding school they left two years previously, they soon discover that a war is brewing between themselves and the Strigoi, a malevolent and bloodthirsty group of vampires. Who will gain the upper hand? (Entertainment One)
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From the promising storyline supported by a promising book series, only a surprisingly roughly chopped omelet remains, though the impressions remain largely positive. With the impossibility of keeping up with the escalating mythology, with three twists and two new characters in every other five-minute segment, everything lies on the beautiful Zoey Deutch, because the wooden Danila Kozlovskij, the heavily overacting Olga Kurylenko, and the unremarkable princess don't help her much. However, the main heroine, as well as the less successful and insufficiently soaked in sarcasm scenes, handles it with ease, which, combined with cool action and a strong frequency of lines, is absolutely sufficient. However, if I were to seek logic in the sequence of the plot, I would have to burst far more.
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It is clear from the beginning that this film will not be a miracle. It is stylized like "Twilight," which is not very good, but that's how it goes. But what I liked more was at least some effort to turn it into a bit of a thriller or detective story. Towards the end, it unnecessarily becomes tangled, and actually, it is clear from the beginning who the killer is, but I still felt that there was at least a hint of effort here.
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