BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007)

Admirable film.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Blistering performances.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Arriving at a small Western town, half-human/half-vampire Rayne finds the citizens in a grip of fear over the vampiric Billy the Kid and his gang, forcing her to put together a band of mercenaries and hunt them down to save the town.This one manages to be slightly flawed while at the same time enjoyable. The film's biggest problem here is that it's more like a dark Western than an out-and-out Horror film, which isn't a bad thing but rather tends to bring about a different feel than it should. Instead of focusing on the vampiric hold over the town's citizens or his extremely ludicrous plan to usher in his reign of vampire exploration and domination, we're treated to scenes of her running around the area gathering her posse and the different manners in which they live in the Old-West, which was full of typical Western antics and not horror moves. That this is all good stuff regardless doesn't damage the fact that with the decreased amount of time it's spending as a horror film is a major detriment here. The vampires really don't have much to do here since there's only a few scenes featuring them, so their absence is notable leaving it hard to fear them as those sequences are centered around the action scenes, but that in the end constitutes the film's good parts. Featuring many outstanding shoot-outs and hand-to-hand weaponry fighting encounters, from the initial take-over of the town and the girl's capture to her escape and cleaning out the streets, this one's got some pretty enjoyable, bloody action scenes to really work well here. Even more impactful is the finale, which has the full confrontation with both the townspeople with the vampires and the showdown as well which has a lot of fun times together during the change-overs between the two scenes. These make it quite entertaining but overall somewhat flawed.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.

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.

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!

Number one, changing Rayne's actress was a huge mistake. Two, the storyline was excruciatingly slow and beyond unbelievable. We waited and waited for something to happen... what happened to Rayne? At the end of the first movie, it appeared as if she had obtained all three Talismans, which would have made her the most powerful vampire (albeit a Damphyr), but in the second movie she was weak and stupid. Come on, after centuries of fighting vampires, you would think the fights would be a lot more interesting and believable. If anyone asked if they should watch this movie, I would tell them to either run like hell or if they are into being tortured, to go ahead and watch it. It is not worth the money. We were EXTREMELY disappointed.