Rotten
This is a garbage heap of weak quips, delivered by an assortment of pretty boys and girls and amped up with some cheesy moments of animal cruelty.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Vampire Academy
They suck at school.
2014 · 1h 44m · PG-13
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Mark Waters
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mark Waters Director
- Zoey Deutch as Rose Hathaway
- Lucy Fry as Lissa Dragomir
- Danila Kozlovsky as Dimitri Belikov
- Gabriel Byrne as Victor Dashkov
- Sarah Hyland as Natalie Dashkov
- Olga Kurylenko as Kirova
- Joely Richardson as Queen Tatiana
- Claire Foy as Sonya Karp
- Cameron Monaghan as Mason Ashford
- Sami Gayle as Mia Rinalidi
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Not only plays like the crassest possible mashup of "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" elements, but seems designed to make those franchises look like eternal monuments of world culture by comparison.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Rotten
This attempt to capture the magic of the "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" franchises tries too hard to pack all the backstory and borrowings into one film.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Rotten
[Mr. Waters] doesn't seem especially interested in the supernatural parts of "Vampire Academy," and he clearly didn't have the budget to make what little hocus-pocus there is magical.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Rotten
Ultimately more "Meaningless" than "Mean Girls," "Vampire Academy" is a busy, overcomplicated empowerment fantasy with more hormones than brain cells.
Todd Gilchrist, TheWrap
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