Storyline
Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.
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Cast
Olga Kurylenko, Gabriel Byrne, Claire Foy, Cameron Monaghan, Joely Richardson, Sami Gayle, Sarah Hyland, Zoey Deutch, Macey Chipping, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Dominic Sherwood, Ashley Charles, Edward Holcroft, Chris Mason, Ben Peel, Dominique Tipper, Bronté Norman-Terrell, Ramon Tikaram, Harry Bradshaw, Shelley Longworth, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Alexander Abadzis, Elizabeth Conboy, Ryan Prescott
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Reviews
60
The supernatural fight scenes are cheesy and cheap, but this movie is less about epic brawls and more about a headmistress in fabulous dresses, secret meetings with brooding boys in the library, sexualized fang pokes and making wisenheimer comments during prophetic visions.
50
Tedious as all this vampire exposition is (and there’s a LOT), the jokey tone here is much appreciated, with everyone “a few corpuscles shy of an artery” and the action as predictable as “a porcupine in a hot tub.”
50
If you're not at the bull's-eye center of the target audience, a movie like this one can suck the life out of you.
50
What is surprising is that while the patchwork whole creaks terribly in places, the parts also show signs of life.
40
Fans of the books might enjoy seeing their world brought to life, but most everyone else will likely leave feeling as if they’ve just completed a seminar on vampire lore, and they’re likely to fail any pop quiz that follows.
