Product Description

It's a hundred years later, and the vampire Rayne has arrived in the town of Deliverance, Montana where a group of vampire cowboys have emerged. Led by Billy the Kid, hell bent on creating his own kingdom, he slaughters townspeople and rounds up children. He spares the life of Chicago Chronicle reporter Newton Pyles. Rayne aligns herself with Pat Garret, a member of the long-thought dead Brimstone society, a dishonest preacher, and a low life named Franson, to stop Billy the Kid and show the world how the West was really won.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24837 in DVD
• Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC VIDEO DIST.
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 89 minutes

Features

• Uwe Boll helms this follow-up to his own action-packed first film from 2006. The movie takes place 100 years after the first BLOODRAYNE ended, and finds Rayne in a whole lot of trouble with some vampire cowboys. The cowboys are led by Billy the Kid, so Rayne teams up with none other than Pat Garret in an attempt to stop Billy's bloody reign of terror. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/

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As a horror-Western hybrid, Uwe (Alone in the Dark) Boll's Bloodrayne 2 ranks below the underrated Sundown but far above 1966's Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, which means fans of the sexy video game vixen's movie career can expect campier chills here than in her previous big-screen effort in 2006. Model/actress Natassia Malthe takes over as Rayne in this feature, which takes place in the 19th-century American West and pits her against Billy the Kid (Zack Ward), an ancient vampire hellbent on establishing a foothold in the New World. With the help of legendary lawman Pat Garrett (legendary B-movie actor Michael Pare), Rayne forms a posse and sets out after the Stetson-wearing bloodsucker. Bloodrayne 2's agenda is simple and direct – it's hot girls in leather fighting vampires – and those expecting anything more should avoid at all costs. Viewers who want all that and nothing else should be pleased by the end results – Malthe looks attractive, and there are plenty of gun battles and martial arts face-offs on display. The unrated director's cut DVD includes commentary by Boll, interviews with the cast and crew, a smattering of deleted scenes, and a digital Bloodrayne comic book, which harkens back to the character's origins – and viewers can explore that courtesy the PC version of the game, which rounds out the extras. - Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews

Western Fangfest
Based on a computer/console video game franchise developed by Terminal Reality, BLOODRAYNE 2: DELIVERANCE doesn't quite pick up after the first BloodRayne movie. Several hundred years have passed, and Rayne seems to have become a cowboy, er, cowgirl, in the meantime. Maybe a bounty hunter. I'm not quite sure because it was never revealed. With the time jump, the franchise gets even more convoluted and - to a degree - confusing.

Rayne is a dhampir, a cross between a vampire and a human, and her father was a Vampire King. In the original video game, Rayne was battling Nazis, and those are supposed to be the villains in the third movie. The sequel video game, which is included with the DVD to up the value packaging of the film, takes place in the present.

As it turns out, Rayne (Natassia Malthe) has come hunting Billy the Kid (Zack Ward) because, as everyone knows, Billy the Kid is a vampire hundreds of years old. She ends up riding with Pat Garrett (Michael Pare), who is a member of the Brimstone Society, the group of vampire hunters that's been around for hundreds of years.

Billy the Kid has ridden into the small town of Deliverance where he hopes to turn the children into vampires in time to take over the area. A train is about to start coming through the town and he'll have access to rapid transportation for his vampire gunslingers. Unfortunately for him, two of the kids he's captured were the children of Rayne's friends.

There's no way to know how or when Rayne got to meet these friends, but she has them. As soon as she knows that Billy the Kid's responsible for the deaths of the parents and the capture of the children, she rides off to mete out justice. She also meets Pat Garrett, who is hot on the trail of Billy the Kid himself. He offers to join forces, but - of course - she passes on that.

In Deliverance, it doesn't take Rayne long to get into more trouble than she can handle. She's quickly overcome and tossed into jail to be hung later.

The movie, even though it was billed as a horror-Western, really weighs in more heavily as a Western. The dialogue and the plot's movements and pacing pretty much mirror every B Western movie ever filmed. The hero confronts the villain, has to escape and regroup, then go out to recruit a group to come back and storm the villain's stronghold.

There's not much plot here, and even less character building. Thankfully Malthe can carry the barely-there costume and looks good doing martial arts. For some reason, though, the costume on the DVD cover actually looks more skimpy than the one she wears in the movie, and I honestly had to wonder if the DVD cover costume was just airbrushed in.

If you're not expecting much from the film, and I wasn't wanting anything more than a diversion with some martial arts mayhem, gunplay, snappy dialogue, and a hawt heroine, you'll probably get your money's worth. This is a DVD to sit down with your buddies with over a bowl of popcorn and prepare to lampoon the plot, the predictability, the pacing, and the characterization. That's what you do with campy horror movies.

I liked some of the look of the film. There were parts that had an edgy otherworldliness to them that worked. But even that was cheapened by the weak theatrics. One of the best parts was the trap Billy the Kid set for Rayne when he had the kids she'd come to save strung up from nooses. (Even that stretched credulity, though, because then you had to ask yourself why he'd go to all the trouble if he knew she was coming back. Why not set a better trap to kill her before she even got back into Deliverance?)

Unfortunately, both the beginning of the film and the end of it have fuzzy footage. I don't know what caused that, but it looks like straight footage you'd get off an ill-focused handheld video camera. I was entirely too aware of a film being shot and thinking how I would have tried to fix that than to enjoy the scenes.

This is director Uwe Boll's fourth movie adaptation, after ALONE IN THE DARK and HOUSE OF THE DEAD. Boll, and his projects, have all been the subject of heated discussion. There are plans for a third BloodRayne movie in the works.

And you thought the first one was bad...
Some things never change. The master of error, Uwe Boll (who has previously adapted other video games to the screen with magical results like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and the first BloodRayne) returns to direct this sequel (the second in an alleged trilogy) which finds the sexy, half human/half vamp Rayne (Natassia Malthe, replacing Kristanna Loken who wisely chose not to reprise her role) years after the events of the first film and in the middle of the wild west. She teams up with lawman Pat Garret (Michael Pare) against the vampiric Billy the Kid (Zack Ward, soon to be seen in Boll's Postal) and his clan of blood suckers. As you can expect from anything that has Boll's name attached to it, BloodRayne 2 features atrocious acting, laughable action scenes, and ungodly direction that could be done better by most amateur film students. Malthe looks quite good in tight leather with red hair, but her physical appearance alone can't save this turkey. All in all, if you thought the first film was bad, be prepared; because BloodRayne 2 makes the first film look like Citizen Kane.

Should've Been Damned Upon Release
Our friend, the good Dr. Boll, has outdone himself by following up the lackluster BloodRayne with a sequel so bad that it gives House of the Dead a run for its money. While I'm a fan of direct-to-video cinema and am quick to forgive quirks that come with a limited budget and generally unknown actors, knowing that this film probably wouldn't have been made any differently under Boll even if it had an extra $10 million to spend erases the empathy I might have held for the film otherwise and allows me to embrace the enmity that I've come to harbor for everything the director has touched.

In "Deliverance", a 1880s western town of the same name has fallen under the plague of vampire infestation, headed by the notorious and bloodthirsty Billy the Kid (Zack Ward, "Titus"). Searching for old friends, vampiric femme fatal Rayne (Natassia Malthe, "Elektra") rides in to save the day, but is nearly destroyed by the Kid's henchmen. Aided by cowboy Pat Garret (Micheal Paré, Streets of Fire), she mounts a comeback against Billy's plan to use the incoming railroad to create an army of cowboy vampires with which to conquer the New World.

The original "Bloodrayne" looks nothing short of Oscar-worthy by the standards of "Deliverance" - at least the first film had Ben Kingsley and a couple of mountaintop camera shots to its credit. The sequel, however, has Boll's new favorite actor Zack Ward giving the most atrocious performance of his career alongside some of the most boring storytelling and poor video production that I've seen in some time. What do I mean with "boring storytelling"? - well, for starters, there's a grand total of maybe three laughable action scenes in the movie, and veterans of the director's previous three adaptations will need no reminding that there's no compelling story or otherwise good acting to be found to help us waste the time between fights away. Trust me - it's the convoluted parts of Alone in the Dark all over again.

And what do I mean by "poor video production"? Well, that's where my biggest grievance lies: I expected the content to be bad, but the technical aspects of the film are the worst ever in a Boll movie. For example, the film takes place in the wild west, but it literally looks like a bunch of actors are playing dress-up around some renovated old landmarks - everything and everybody looks just a bit too clean for that time and environment. Where actual filming is concerned, the movie has two kinds of camera angles: clichéd ones and bad ones (in other words, if it's not a slow-motion shot of a horse's hooves galloping through a puddle, it's a shot so wide and inclusive that it would fit into a documentary about the Savannah). The "shaky camera" effect is beaten into the ground: while some films benefit from the mood and tension such a technique can instill, the impression "Deliverance" gave me is that the crew was simply too lazy to set up a tripod.

Natassia Malthe looks cool in her outfit, but she doesn't hold a candle to Kristanna Loken's performance (how sad is that?), and the special effects are pitiful, as is the way they're utilized (the pistols don't fire blanks - that's the computer's job, apparently) - just a few more nitpicks on the way to trying to prove what a truly dreadful film this is. If I had to praise one aspect, it would be Paré's performance, which is acceptable given his immersion into the B-movie genre...but don't bank on him saving the movie. The only reasons that you would need to see this is if you somehow enjoyed the prequel or if you have the same fascination that Boll apparently had about seeing vampires and the wild west mixed.
Video game fans, we've been had again. Let's just hope that "Bloodrayne III" never comes to fruition.