BloodRayne II: Deliverance is set in the small American frontier town of Deliverance during the Wild West of the late nineteenth Century where a Vampire Billy the Kid (Zack Ward) & his posse of Vampire cowboys have taken all the children in Deliverance hostage to control the adults. Half human half Vampire all Vampire killer Rayne (Natassia Malthe) arrives in Delivarance looking for Vampires to kill & learns of Billy the Kid's plan to use the railroad that will soon go through Deliverance to spread Vampirism throughout the US. Rayne teams up with lawman Pat Garret (Micheal Paré) to stop Billy the Kid & his Vampire henchmen...
This Canadian German co-production was executive produced & directed by Uwe Boll, now anyone with any real interest in the horror genre will have heard of German filmmaker Boll & will probably know that many consider him the worst director ever & his films are the worst ever which I think is total rubbish. There are far worse filmmakers out there & just by looking at some of the comments & reviews on the net that really put the knife into Boll I personally think it's more to do with people's dislike of Boll rather than the merits of any particular film he has been involved with. Anyway, I don't think that BloodRayne II: Deliverance is a particularly good film but it's not too bad, the script mixes horror & western with a touch of historical as well since it actually uses real life people from the time including outlaw Billy the Kid & lawman Pat Garret although it obviously doesn't try to present them in any factual light. I suppose my main problem with BloodRayne II: Deliverance would be that it's too average, sure it tells a decent enough story at a fairly sedate pace & it passes the time but I only saw it last night & I can barely remember anything about it. The film could also have used a few more set-pieces or just big moments because as it is BloodRayne II: Deliverance just feels a little shallow & empty despite a fairly fun if silly plot.
Boll does a reasonable directing job here, he manages to mix the classic Vampire horror & western imagery quite nicely & while the two seem at odds with each other it does sort of work. The action is mostly confined to some shoot-outs & slow motion fights, the shoot-outs could have been edited better as it's sometimes hard to tell who is shooting at who & where they are in relation to each other while the fights are too short. There's not much gore here, there's a slashed throat, some blood splatter & that's about it. One of the few films in which children are killed. The computer game BloodRayne 2 on which this was apparently based is very different & the two share no real similarities plot wise as the computer game is set during World War II.
The IMDb reckons this had a budget of about $10,000,000 which I think is total rubbish, there's no way this cost that much. The production values are alright, the special effects are good & it's well made save for some disappointingly flat action scenes. Filmed in British Columbia in Canada.None of the cast from the original BloodRayne (2005) are present & Rayne herself has been recast, obviously for her looks rather than acting ability.
BloodRayne II: Deliverance is a film which will get panned on the IMDb & other sites because of who directed it rather than the merits of the film itself, sure it ain't no masterpiece but I can fifty low budget straight to video horror films which are much worse than this. Just about worth a watch I suppose but nothing special. Uwe Boll is currently working on BloodRayne 3: Warhammer (2010).
This Canadian German co-production was executive produced & directed by Uwe Boll, now anyone with any real interest in the horror genre will have heard of German filmmaker Boll & will probably know that many consider him the worst director ever & his films are the worst ever which I think is total rubbish. There are far worse filmmakers out there & just by looking at some of the comments & reviews on the net that really put the knife into Boll I personally think it's more to do with people's dislike of Boll rather than the merits of any particular film he has been involved with. Anyway, I don't think that BloodRayne II: Deliverance is a particularly good film but it's not too bad, the script mixes horror & western with a touch of historical as well since it actually uses real life people from the time including outlaw Billy the Kid & lawman Pat Garret although it obviously doesn't try to present them in any factual light. I suppose my main problem with BloodRayne II: Deliverance would be that it's too average, sure it tells a decent enough story at a fairly sedate pace & it passes the time but I only saw it last night & I can barely remember anything about it. The film could also have used a few more set-pieces or just big moments because as it is BloodRayne II: Deliverance just feels a little shallow & empty despite a fairly fun if silly plot.
Boll does a reasonable directing job here, he manages to mix the classic Vampire horror & western imagery quite nicely & while the two seem at odds with each other it does sort of work. The action is mostly confined to some shoot-outs & slow motion fights, the shoot-outs could have been edited better as it's sometimes hard to tell who is shooting at who & where they are in relation to each other while the fights are too short. There's not much gore here, there's a slashed throat, some blood splatter & that's about it. One of the few films in which children are killed. The computer game BloodRayne 2 on which this was apparently based is very different & the two share no real similarities plot wise as the computer game is set during World War II.
The IMDb reckons this had a budget of about $10,000,000 which I think is total rubbish, there's no way this cost that much. The production values are alright, the special effects are good & it's well made save for some disappointingly flat action scenes. Filmed in British Columbia in Canada.None of the cast from the original BloodRayne (2005) are present & Rayne herself has been recast, obviously for her looks rather than acting ability.
BloodRayne II: Deliverance is a film which will get panned on the IMDb & other sites because of who directed it rather than the merits of the film itself, sure it ain't no masterpiece but I can fifty low budget straight to video horror films which are much worse than this. Just about worth a watch I suppose but nothing special. Uwe Boll is currently working on BloodRayne 3: Warhammer (2010).