Thursday 26 June 2014

Vampire Academy (2014) 7/10

Starring : Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Dominic Sherwood, Olga Kurylenko, Sarah Hyland
Director : Mark Waters
Running Time : 105 mins

Rosemarie Hathaway (Deutch) is a half-vampire guardian to Princess Vasilisa Dragomir (Fry), the heir to the vampire throne. Together they attend St Vladimir’s Academy, where they are faced daily by threats against their lives so, when things get too tricky, they are forced to further investigate who is behind the threats before they become a reality.

This isn’t a bad teen movie, with Deutch putting in a lead performance that her parents could be proud of, and I’m surprised that this has had such negative comments made about it. Basically this is mean Girls meets Underworld, with some jokey pokes at the expense of the Twilight series, and as far as it goes this is much more interesting than the Twilight movies. This is fast paced and energetic, and though the concept is a simple one it is executed in an entertaining enough way that its teenaged target audience should be reasonably pleased with the end result.

You’ll like this if you liked : Percy Jackson & The Olympians : The Lightning Thief



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