The Washington Post, February 22nd, 2002
Those hoping for a fitting tribute to the late singer Aaliyah will be the most sorely disappointed by "Queen of the Damned." The film's other constituency, Anne Rice devotees yearning to see another of their mother-goddess's novels enshrined on the screen, will be the second shattered audience. First of all, though her visage dominates the movie's poster art, Aaliyah is hardly in the movie. Even when she's in it, she's hardly in it. She plays Akasha, who is evidently the literal mother of all vampires, from whose bloodlines flow immortality and a thirst for human plasma, plus a strict no-tann...
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