'Queen of the Damned' is considered a bad adaptation, over-the-top silly, and just a poorly structured film in general. All are true. However, many, myself included, see it more as a disasterpiece, a guilty pleasure, a piece of 2000s nu metal nostalgia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2022

The result is a film that's as camp as Butlins but nowhere near as much fun and full of awful performances and silly dialogue

| Oct 17, 2017

It's mainly an excuse for director Michael Rymer to unleash his arsenal of flashy, M온라인카지노추천-type visuals and Moulin Rouge costume designer Angus Strathie to play dress-up.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2014

It's difficult to make a truly boring vampire picture, but the folks behind this draggy adaptation of Anne Rice's bestsellers The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned have done just that.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 26, 2012

Michael Rymer stages high-tech sequences combining gore, romance, and gothy music, and he has enough conviction to make what could have been very silly strangely provocative.

| Oct 20, 2009

Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.

| Apr 29, 2009

It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.

| Sep 15, 2008

Aaliyah makes a brief but memorable posthumous appearance about an hour into the nearly incoherent proceedings, which are riddled with unintentional guffaws.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.

| Original Score: D | Sep 22, 2007

The film is vampire roadkill.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2007

Perhaps the sole reason to see this film is to pay final tribute to Aaliyah. Too bad it isn't a better movie.

| Dec 30, 2006

Wishy-washy and hampered by cliche, sitting through this is like enduring a vampire life: it's one long wait for the end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Overall this horror picture, based on Rice's novel, is no good, but lead stuart Townsend gives a far more compelling (and properly campy) performance than Tom Cruise did as Lestat in the high-profile companion piece, Interview With the Vampire.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 20, 2006

Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.

| Feb 9, 2006

Queen of the Damned is not a good film, but it's definitely a watchable one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Tom Cruise had the good sense to stay away from reprising his role of Lestat in this film.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Aaliyah steals the show as a villainous vampiric vixen in an otherwise ludicrous waste of a story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/10 | Jan 15, 2004

This film should have stayed in its coffin and never seen the light of day.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 7, 2004

...the film's disjointed narrative makes it near impossible to ever become completely engrossed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 30, 2003

Anne Rice goes heavy metal in Hollywood's latest installment of bloodsucker cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003