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| Zoey Deutch as Rose Hathaway |
"Vampire Academy" does suck, but in the wrong ways
"Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters" is a new teen vampire movie, based on the best-selling young adult novels of the same name by Richelle Mead. While it's an interesting story, the film adaptation lacks bite, originality and energy and will most likely bore its target audience of teen girls. Rose Hathaway (Deutch) is a Dhampir: half human/vampire, guardians of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discretely within our world. Her legacy is to protect a Moroi princess (Lucy Fry) from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi. "Vampire Academy" is directed by "Mean Girls" Mark Waters and penned by his older brother, "Heathers" screenwriter Daniel Waters. The problem is that "Vampire Academy" combines too many elements of those films, feeling like an uninteresting vampire version of "Mean Girls" with a little "Harry Potter" thrown in for good measure. Worst of all, it's rather boring and stale, with too many slow, talky sequences of exposition and flashbacks, and culminating in a predictable good-versus-evil climax that could be seen coming from a mile away. TV actors and newcomers Deutch and Fry are both lovely but wasted under a bad (and often confusing) script and direction from the Waters brothers, both of whom have done much better than this tripe. It also wastes a terrific actor in Gabriel Byrne, in a small role as an elderly, dying vampire. Don't waste your money or time on "Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters" given how much it does really suck as a movie.
Wes's Grade: D
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