BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007)
R1 NTSC DVD
Toucan Cove
Director: Uwe Boll
Writer: Christoper Donaldson & Neil Every
Starring: Nastassia Malthe, Zack Ward, Michael Pare, Chris Coppola & Chris Spencer.
Review by Annie Riordan

It's the 1800s and the wild west town of Deliverance is anything but wild. Reporter Newton Pyles was hoping for a story about rootin' tootin' gun-slingin' cowboys, but there's just nothin' going on here...that is, until Billy The Kid arrives in town and takes all of the children hostage. Billy, it turns out, is a vampire, and he's dead set (no pun intended) on raising an army and making himself a kingdom right there in Deliverance! But when half vampire butt kicker Rayne gets wind of his evil plot, she rides into town and raises an army of her own, determined to stop Billy and return the wild west to peace.

Yeah, this is a Uwe Boll flick. Most of you will go no further once you see his name on the DVD box. But really - honestly and truly? - this isn't all that bad. It's even kinda fun! Yes, it's low budget, silly, uses language, costumes and other assorted items that did not exist back in the 1800s and the script is by-the-book predictable and oftentimes silly, but sometimes you just wanna watch a hot babe kick some ass. Nastassia Malthe delivers on that front: she's smokingly sexy and she makes sure you notice. Billy the Kid is played by the sneeringly evil Zack Ward, so fans of A Christmas Story, this is your chance to see how the ruthless bully Scut Farkus turned out when he grew up and left the coonskin cap behind!

• Screen format: Widescreen 1.85: 1 / Color
• Audio: English
• Subtitles: none
• Running time: 99 mins

• Audio Commentary by Uwe Boll and DP Mathias Neumann
• Deleted and extended scenes
• Behind-the-scenes cast & crew interviews
• BloodRayne PC game
• BloodRayne interactive comic
• Trailers

On level with Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, BloodRayne 2 is a harmless western horror flick which should be viewed by those just looking for some dumb fun. It's action packed, booby trapped and even slightly sick, and it held my attention from beginning to end. I've seen much, much, MUCH worse films, kids.

"Fun, fast and sexy!"