![]() But sheer mass is no excuse for the incoherent mess Rymer has created. Rice's novel, at 491 pages, is filled with long-winded back story about the world's first vampires and a globetrotting tendency that doesn't lend itself to dramatic adaptation. ![]() ![]() It's true that Rymer, critically acclaimed in his native Australia, faced a difficult task. This film's largest problem lies in director Michael Rymer's inability to create a clear story line. But "Queen of the Damned" ultimately belongs in video-store hell, far away from better genre movies such as "Cronos" or "The Crow" and somewhere near Rice's last filmed failure, Neil Jordan's version of "Interview With the Vampire." The movie is not a complete failure arresting scenes with Aaliyah - the beloved 22-year-old pop star who died last summer while playing the film's queen - stanch the pain, as do a handful of impressive sets. Virgin vampire fans will be confused by the cliché-addled dialogue, clumsy directing and eardrum-bursting sound effects, while those who have come to love Rice's dark, tragic novels will wonder what they've wandered into. ![]() ![]() Just as the author's characters suffer through their immortality, as they crave closure and a death to their blood-sucking madness, so "Queen of the Damned" demands an end to its own misery. I suppose it captures the spirit of Anne Rice's bestselling vampire chronicles, at least in that sense. "Queen of the Damned" feels like a vampire's life: endless. ![]()
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