Amazon.co.uk Review
Queen of the Damned combines the plot elements from the two disappointing novels Anne Rice cranked out as the sequels to Interview with the Vampire and contrives to be better than the book it is named after, but not by much. The vampire Lestat (a pale, pretty Stuart Townsend) awakens after a century-long nap and discovers flamboyant metal music, then irritates the vampire community by "coming out" and courting celebrities. His sub-Marilyn Manson songs interest paranormal-watching human librarian Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), who looks him up in a Mile End Goth club that caters for an undead clientele, but his tunes also awaken Akasha (Aaliyah), eponymous mother of all vampires, who makes him her number one disciple and sets about devastating the world, opposed by a cadre of conservative vampires who include Lestat's sire Marius (Vincent Perez) and Jesse's Aunt Maharet (Lena Olin).
The plot is of the "one-damn-thing-after-another" variety, zipping about the world from New Orleans to Glastonbury to a huge concert in Death Valley as broody characters exchange solemn but comical dialogue and indulge in fight scenes too swift for the camera to catch. Like Blade 2, it offers some spectacular vampire combustions, but its romance is strictly 15-certificate blood-nuzzling and it's hard to take Lestat himself seriously when Townsend plays him as such a feckless twit. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
watchable but some really awful acting!.......2008-03-02
Whilst this film is not on my list of favourites, I thought it was watchable. Aaliyah's (Akasha) performance as the most evil vampire to have ever walked the earth was not outstanding but she was promising and clearly gave it her best shot. She and Townsend are worth watching. What annoyed me most about the film, however, was Marguerite Moreau (Jesse). I simply could not feel any chemistry between her and Lestat. Her acting was too awkward and expressionless...She was an embarrassment and yet she has more scenes than Aaliyah, who only appears halfway through the film - how dreadful.
Very sexy film, but no where near as good as IWTV.......2007-09-18
I bought this on DVD since I never got to see it in the cinema. I thought the soundtrack was brilliant ( I have that on CD) but I don't think it is anywhere near as good as Interview With the Vampire. IWTV was just a better made film IMO. The acting in QOTD was good, don't get me wrong, but I think it was just a little bit silly, IWTV had more of an edge. However, QOTD is good for it's eye-candy ( Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend as the sexalicious Queen and Lestat) and fantastic music. It's watchable if you just want to pass some time. I think if it had been filmed with more care like IWTV, I would have given it 4/5 stars.
Not worthy of the name Anne Rice.......2007-09-17
The Queen of the Damned is the third book in Anne Rice's series about the undead, that began with Interview with the Vampire. So, what on earth possessed Warner Brothers to just skip the second and most interesting part? That is just one of many things that is wrong with this movie. Whereas the big screen adaptation of Interview with the Vampire stayed true to the original written work, the Queen of the Damned does nothing of the sort: the story is completely wrong and the vampires are nothing like the ones portrayed in the books. In fact, the only good thing about this film is its soundtrack. If you liked the books, please don't watch this film and just stick to its predecessor. It's not even worth getting worked up over.
Great Movie!.......2007-07-14
I loved this movie! Its dark, sexy and unpredictable. I have never read any of Anne Rice's book but i loved the movie. I only watched this movie because of Aaliyah...me beinging a big fan of hers had to watch the movie and i was pleasantly suprised. This movie has a dark affinity towards it...which will pull you in [not in a bad way...you wont get possessed or anything...well i hope you don't...lol ;)] Aaliyah did an AMAZINGGG job on this...her acting is brilliant. Stuart Townsend is sooo sexy as Lestat! If you like dark movies, with a bit of blood, horror and modern life...watch this movie! Soundtrack is also great...check that out too.
Queen of the what now!?!.......2007-02-17
This is a bit of a complicated one. If your a die hard Anne Rice fan and Interview with the vampire offended you DO NOT watch this film because you may choke on your own fury. Really this film should be watched as a stand alone vamp flick and NOT the sequel to Interview. Personally I really love Interview and if I knew that this film was the intended sequel and not just a 'based on' rip off I probably would have hated it. Saying that I watched it as a stand alone and thought it was pretty entertaining. Stuart Townsend plays the lucious Lestat who goes to sleep for a few hundred years but is then awakened by a new wave of metal music and a change in humans attitudes. Then decides to join a band and releases vampire secrets in his lyrics to p1ss all the other vamps off. In doing so he awakens Egyptian Queen Akasha(Aaliyah), the mother of all vampires who wants to make Lestat her new King and rule mankind. Aaliyah surprisingly does a pretty good job and Townsend does his best in this one even though hes obviously working with a script that is a bit daft 'Her blood is like liquid fire, MORE!' and he does comes off as a homosexual Bela Lugosi impersonator but if you watch this film with a bit of humour it can be pretty good. The soundtrack is really impressive and the featurettes on this dvd show the special effects, one about the music with Chester Bennington(Linkin park) and a tribute to Aaliyah which is quite touching. I would say give it a chance. It's not the best but it's a job well done for a genre of films that can go so wrong so easily and go and check out the soundtrack and the score which I can definetly say are totally awesome.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Queen of the Damned combines the plot elements from the two disappointing novels Anne Rice cranked out as the sequels to Interview with the Vampire and contrives to be better than the book it is named after, but not by much. The vampire Lestat (a pale, pretty Stuart Townsend) awakens after a century-long nap and discovers flamboyant metal music, then irritates the vampire community by "coming out" and courting celebrities. His sub-Marilyn Manson songs interest paranormal-watching human librarian Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), who looks him up in a Mile End Goth club that caters for an undead clientele, but his tunes also awaken Akasha (Aaliyah), eponymous mother of all vampires, who makes him her number one disciple and sets about devastating the world, opposed by a cadre of conservative vampires who include Lestat's sire Marius (Vincent Perez) and Jesse's Aunt Maharet (Lena Olin).
The plot is of the "one-damn-thing-after-another" variety, zipping about the world from New Orleans to Glastonbury to a huge concert in Death Valley as broody characters exchange solemn but comical dialogue and indulge in fight scenes too swift for the camera to catch. Like Blade 2, it offers some spectacular vampire combustions, but its romance is strictly 15-certificate blood-nuzzling and it's hard to take Lestat himself seriously when Townsend plays him as such a feckless twit. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
watchable but some really awful acting!.......2008-03-02
Whilst this film is not on my list of favourites, I thought it was watchable. Aaliyah's (Akasha) performance as the most evil vampire to have ever walked the earth was not outstanding but she was promising and clearly gave it her best shot. She and Townsend are worth watching. What annoyed me most about the film, however, was Marguerite Moreau (Jesse). I simply could not feel any chemistry between her and Lestat. Her acting was too awkward and expressionless...She was an embarrassment and yet she has more scenes than Aaliyah, who only appears halfway through the film - how dreadful.
Very sexy film, but no where near as good as IWTV.......2007-09-18
I bought this on DVD since I never got to see it in the cinema. I thought the soundtrack was brilliant ( I have that on CD) but I don't think it is anywhere near as good as Interview With the Vampire. IWTV was just a better made film IMO. The acting in QOTD was good, don't get me wrong, but I think it was just a little bit silly, IWTV had more of an edge. However, QOTD is good for it's eye-candy ( Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend as the sexalicious Queen and Lestat) and fantastic music. It's watchable if you just want to pass some time. I think if it had been filmed with more care like IWTV, I would have given it 4/5 stars.
Not worthy of the name Anne Rice.......2007-09-17
The Queen of the Damned is the third book in Anne Rice's series about the undead, that began with Interview with the Vampire. So, what on earth possessed Warner Brothers to just skip the second and most interesting part? That is just one of many things that is wrong with this movie. Whereas the big screen adaptation of Interview with the Vampire stayed true to the original written work, the Queen of the Damned does nothing of the sort: the story is completely wrong and the vampires are nothing like the ones portrayed in the books. In fact, the only good thing about this film is its soundtrack. If you liked the books, please don't watch this film and just stick to its predecessor. It's not even worth getting worked up over.
Great Movie!.......2007-07-14
I loved this movie! Its dark, sexy and unpredictable. I have never read any of Anne Rice's book but i loved the movie. I only watched this movie because of Aaliyah...me beinging a big fan of hers had to watch the movie and i was pleasantly suprised. This movie has a dark affinity towards it...which will pull you in [not in a bad way...you wont get possessed or anything...well i hope you don't...lol ;)] Aaliyah did an AMAZINGGG job on this...her acting is brilliant. Stuart Townsend is sooo sexy as Lestat! If you like dark movies, with a bit of blood, horror and modern life...watch this movie! Soundtrack is also great...check that out too.
Queen of the what now!?!.......2007-02-17
This is a bit of a complicated one. If your a die hard Anne Rice fan and Interview with the vampire offended you DO NOT watch this film because you may choke on your own fury. Really this film should be watched as a stand alone vamp flick and NOT the sequel to Interview. Personally I really love Interview and if I knew that this film was the intended sequel and not just a 'based on' rip off I probably would have hated it. Saying that I watched it as a stand alone and thought it was pretty entertaining. Stuart Townsend plays the lucious Lestat who goes to sleep for a few hundred years but is then awakened by a new wave of metal music and a change in humans attitudes. Then decides to join a band and releases vampire secrets in his lyrics to p1ss all the other vamps off. In doing so he awakens Egyptian Queen Akasha(Aaliyah), the mother of all vampires who wants to make Lestat her new King and rule mankind. Aaliyah surprisingly does a pretty good job and Townsend does his best in this one even though hes obviously working with a script that is a bit daft 'Her blood is like liquid fire, MORE!' and he does comes off as a homosexual Bela Lugosi impersonator but if you watch this film with a bit of humour it can be pretty good. The soundtrack is really impressive and the featurettes on this dvd show the special effects, one about the music with Chester Bennington(Linkin park) and a tribute to Aaliyah which is quite touching. I would say give it a chance. It's not the best but it's a job well done for a genre of films that can go so wrong so easily and go and check out the soundtrack and the score which I can definetly say are totally awesome.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Queen of the Damned combines the plot elements from the two disappointing novels Anne Rice cranked out as the sequels to Interview with the Vampire and contrives to be better than the book it is named after, but not by much. The vampire Lestat (a pale, pretty Stuart Townsend) awakens after a century-long nap and discovers flamboyant metal music, then irritates the vampire community by "coming out" and courting celebrities. His sub-Marilyn Manson songs interest paranormal-watching human librarian Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), who looks him up in a Mile End Goth club that caters for an undead clientele, but his tunes also awaken Akasha (Aaliyah), eponymous mother of all vampires, who makes him her number one disciple and sets about devastating the world, opposed by a cadre of conservative vampires who include Lestat's sire Marius (Vincent Perez) and Jesse's Aunt Maharet (Lena Olin).
The plot is of the "one-damn-thing-after-another" variety, zipping about the world from New Orleans to Glastonbury to a huge concert in Death Valley as broody characters exchange solemn but comical dialogue and indulge in fight scenes too swift for the camera to catch. Like Blade 2, it offers some spectacular vampire combustions, but its romance is strictly 15-certificate blood-nuzzling and it's hard to take Lestat himself seriously when Townsend plays him as such a feckless twit. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
watchable but some really awful acting!.......2008-03-02
Whilst this film is not on my list of favourites, I thought it was watchable. Aaliyah's (Akasha) performance as the most evil vampire to have ever walked the earth was not outstanding but she was promising and clearly gave it her best shot. She and Townsend are worth watching. What annoyed me most about the film, however, was Marguerite Moreau (Jesse). I simply could not feel any chemistry between her and Lestat. Her acting was too awkward and expressionless...She was an embarrassment and yet she has more scenes than Aaliyah, who only appears halfway through the film - how dreadful.
Very sexy film, but no where near as good as IWTV.......2007-09-18
I bought this on DVD since I never got to see it in the cinema. I thought the soundtrack was brilliant ( I have that on CD) but I don't think it is anywhere near as good as Interview With the Vampire. IWTV was just a better made film IMO. The acting in QOTD was good, don't get me wrong, but I think it was just a little bit silly, IWTV had more of an edge. However, QOTD is good for it's eye-candy ( Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend as the sexalicious Queen and Lestat) and fantastic music. It's watchable if you just want to pass some time. I think if it had been filmed with more care like IWTV, I would have given it 4/5 stars.
Not worthy of the name Anne Rice.......2007-09-17
The Queen of the Damned is the third book in Anne Rice's series about the undead, that began with Interview with the Vampire. So, what on earth possessed Warner Brothers to just skip the second and most interesting part? That is just one of many things that is wrong with this movie. Whereas the big screen adaptation of Interview with the Vampire stayed true to the original written work, the Queen of the Damned does nothing of the sort: the story is completely wrong and the vampires are nothing like the ones portrayed in the books. In fact, the only good thing about this film is its soundtrack. If you liked the books, please don't watch this film and just stick to its predecessor. It's not even worth getting worked up over.
Great Movie!.......2007-07-14
I loved this movie! Its dark, sexy and unpredictable. I have never read any of Anne Rice's book but i loved the movie. I only watched this movie because of Aaliyah...me beinging a big fan of hers had to watch the movie and i was pleasantly suprised. This movie has a dark affinity towards it...which will pull you in [not in a bad way...you wont get possessed or anything...well i hope you don't...lol ;)] Aaliyah did an AMAZINGGG job on this...her acting is brilliant. Stuart Townsend is sooo sexy as Lestat! If you like dark movies, with a bit of blood, horror and modern life...watch this movie! Soundtrack is also great...check that out too.
Queen of the what now!?!.......2007-02-17
This is a bit of a complicated one. If your a die hard Anne Rice fan and Interview with the vampire offended you DO NOT watch this film because you may choke on your own fury. Really this film should be watched as a stand alone vamp flick and NOT the sequel to Interview. Personally I really love Interview and if I knew that this film was the intended sequel and not just a 'based on' rip off I probably would have hated it. Saying that I watched it as a stand alone and thought it was pretty entertaining. Stuart Townsend plays the lucious Lestat who goes to sleep for a few hundred years but is then awakened by a new wave of metal music and a change in humans attitudes. Then decides to join a band and releases vampire secrets in his lyrics to p1ss all the other vamps off. In doing so he awakens Egyptian Queen Akasha(Aaliyah), the mother of all vampires who wants to make Lestat her new King and rule mankind. Aaliyah surprisingly does a pretty good job and Townsend does his best in this one even though hes obviously working with a script that is a bit daft 'Her blood is like liquid fire, MORE!' and he does comes off as a homosexual Bela Lugosi impersonator but if you watch this film with a bit of humour it can be pretty good. The soundtrack is really impressive and the featurettes on this dvd show the special effects, one about the music with Chester Bennington(Linkin park) and a tribute to Aaliyah which is quite touching. I would say give it a chance. It's not the best but it's a job well done for a genre of films that can go so wrong so easily and go and check out the soundtrack and the score which I can definetly say are totally awesome.
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