PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

DigitalRevenantX7 A couple of centuries after defeating Kagan, the female vampire-human hybrid Rayne is now trekking across the Wild West, slaughtering any vampire she crosses. But she meets her match in Billy the Kid, a fearsome vampire gunslinger who has taken over the town of Deliverance with his army of vampire cowboys. Sensing that she'll need to get some help to kill these bloodsuckers, Rayne seeks out some bad hombres to help her in her mission.BloodRayne was the third video game adaptation that Uwe Boll had made in his career. The film became a laughing stock due to its poorly written script, ill-thought out story & the fascinating image of once-great actors effortlessly destroying their good reputations (namely Ben Kingsley) by appearing in trash like this. What nobody expected was for the film to get a sequel, let alone two of them. But that is what happened here.The film is a surprise for a sequel to a cheap trashfest that almost everybody hates. But Boll, who has actually got some talent up his sleeve, manages to do a better job than what he did two years before. Here he makes a vampire western with Natassia Malthe filling in for Kristanna Loken & doing a better job of it too. She actually makes the character of Rayne much more believable here than Loken's efforts. Michael Pare (the only actor to appear in all three current BloodRayne films) has a more substantial part here while Zack Ward does his best vampire impression as the villain. On the other hand, Michael Eklund is so OTT as the preacher that you wonder if he's been on an all-night acid bender before showing up for filming.But while the story is slightly more substantial than the original, BloodRayne: Deliverance is still a mediocre film. It has some shootouts but these are marred by Boll's insistence on using slow-motion for stylistic effect, something that makes no sense. I'm not particularly enthused on vampires being killed by bullets that have been rubbed in garlic (making cross-shaped marks on their bullets would have been more effective – if it worked for George Clooney, it will work here!) but the film does a slightly reasonable job in selling that idea forward.

highlander-macleod I played BloodRayne video game for PC long before the first movie was released, so I can criticize Deliverance not only as a movie spectator, but as a fan of the original character too. Unfortunately, Deliverance is a disaster in any way you look at it.I think we could use some information from BloodRayne PC Manual, to have an idea of who Rayne really are, and to reaffirm just how ridiculous this Deliverance movie is: "In 1932 an American teenage girl was apprehended in Europe after carving a path of destruction trying to track down and kill her biological father. The girl's name was Rayne and she claimed the people she killed, and her father who was still at large, were vampires.Before more information was attained, the girl disappeared.That girl is a Dhampir; a product of her human mother's rape by her vampire father. Born with powers of a vampire without all of the weaknesses. She was taken in by an underground organization calling themselves the Brimstone Society--a top-secret fraternity that hunts down and destroys supernatural threats. Agent BloodRayne, as she is now known, protects humanity from things that ordinary people shouldn't have to deal with.In the years between the World Wars, Agent BloodRayne works as a killing machine for The Brimstone Society. Two missions, five years apart, turn out to be connected by one man. For years, this man has been searching the world for powerful occult artifacts to bring Germany into a new age of domination. Agent BloodRayne must face this man's elite Nazi army to prevent them from releasing creatures of unfathomable terror onto the world in their unwavering quest for the artifacts." Humans are able to do amazing things, but this potential can also be used to construct horrible aberrations. The original game plot isn't brilliant, but it's very OK for an action game. I'm sure someone competent could have adapted BloodRayne history for an excellent movie. This was successfully done before with other games, pleasing both movie critics and video game fans. However, Deliverance plot is so boring, foreseeable and idiot, that normal people will have serious problems to reach the end of the movie without skip.There are many other problems, like the uncountable disgraceful clichés. This movie has the same American Old West, with the same gunmen and the classic wild preacher! This time with some crazy vampires that are not vampires at all! Billy the Kid?! WTF!? And how about the ridiculous toothpick from Rayne? Furthermore, soundtrack is awful, visual effects and fighting scenes are very poor, actors aren't convincing...Natassia Malthe is indeed a beautiful actress, but she was wasted in a shameful character. In the video games or comic books Rayne is portrayed like a sexy, strong female character, but in Deliverance she's just an idiot kid, always acting over the top. Besides, in the movie Rayne is weak and doesn't seem to have vampire supernatural powers. I think the only moment in which Malthe looked like Rayne was the sexy scene when she seduces a gunman to immobilize him in bed. Nevertheless, considering her superpowers, it's unlikely that real Rayne would act like this, but we can't affirm this is an impossible scenery as well.In short, words can't describe how bad this movie is. It is a disaster. We can only imagine why Majesco allowed a movie like this. They should have more respect for their own creations. First BloodRayne movie was very bad, but Deliverance is worse. Do not waste your time or money with this aberration.I suggest you all to ignore this movie and to give Rayne another shot, in video games or comics!

misbegotten Bloodrayne: Deliverance actually received worse reviews than the first film (even those few who wrote positively about Bloodrayne disliked the sequel), but I actually prefer it to the initial movie.The entries in the Bloodrayne series are some of the few vampire films that acknowledge the passage of time from the perspective of an immortal being. The first film is set in 18th century Eastern Europe, and the opening titles depict paintings and illustrations from that period, and also medieval woodcuts. Deliverance takes place in the American West of the late 19th century, and accordingly - after a picture of the castle that was the setting of the climax of the previous film - the opening titles consist of sepia-toned photographs of ships setting sail for the New World, towns being founded, and railroad tracks being laid down. In Bloodrayne, the title character relied on her swords. In Deliverance, time and technology have moved on, and a pair of six-shooters (loaded with silver bullets dipped in holy water and smeared with garlic) are her weapons of choice.There's an admirable amount of period grittiness in Deliverance. Instead of the wide open, dusty plains of most westerns, the movie is set in the depths of winter, and the ground is either covered in snow or been reduced to filthy, churned-up mud. And despite the fact that in the Old West the only sources of indoor illumination were often limited to candles, simple oil lamps and the occasional open fireplace, have you ever noticed in the westerns produced in the 1930s - 1960s how suspiciously well lit all those saloons and ranch interiors were? This was simply because the lighting technicians lit those sets the same way they did for all other movies - for maximum visibility. Deliverance corrects this discrepancy: building interiors are dim and murky, with deep pools of black shadow. It all creates a wonderful sense of authenticity.Kristanna Loken played Rayne in the first movie, but she was unable to reprise the role due to filming the TV series Painkiller Jane, so Nastasha Malthe steps into her shoes. Loken gave a driven and forceful but somewhat one-note performance. In contrast, portraying the same character a hundred years older and wiser, Malthe's Rayne is sullen and cynical, and altogether more fleshed-out and well rounded than Loken's take. And I must say that Malthe looks stunning in her all-black outfit, consisting of a duster (the name given to an ankle-length coat common to the period), flapping leather chaps and wide-brimmed hat. The only returning actor from the initial film is Michael Pare, who had a brief cameo in Bloodrayne and here plays a different character - real life Western legend Pat Garrett, no less.Garrett appearing as Rayne's sidekick is due to a plot element that earns the film it's only minus mark - having Billy the Kid as the main villain. The Kid is bizarrely reinterpreted as an ancient East European vampire, instead of the young, all-American sociopath that he actually was. His inclusion is a gimmick, and it's an unnecessary one. Ironically, as played by Zack Ward (a regular in Uwe Boll's movies) the Kid is an impressive bad guy, but he would have worked better as an original character.Uwe Boll (director and producer of both Bloodrayne films) has promised a third instalment, set in Nazi Germany during World War 2. I'm looking forward to it.

Nick Damian Today I saw Die Hard 4 and BloodRayne 2.Overall I was more pleased with BloodRayne.Somebody mentioned something negative about Vampire Cowboys...well there is nothing wrong with Vampire Cowboys.I thought that this was actually a cool film.Certainly not the best I've ever seen...but far from the worst...in fact I enjoyed this much more than many Hollywoood "BLOCKBUSTERS".Even if I had to pay for this movie, I would have enjoyed it...but since I didn't pay to see it...I enjoyed it even more......and damn did that chick look fine...I guess in the old west, they always had supermodel vampire hunters that had perfect teeth, ripe lips a perfectly structured face to go along with their flawless complexion and manicured nails.Oh well...what I missed in the old days of the wild west...