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!
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!