Pretty Good

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

But it's got BIlly the Kid as a vampire, I mean, come on, how seriously could such a movie take itself? From the unabashedly spaghetti-western style soundtrack during the titles, and the opening scene with the "dude" arriving in town and proclaiming in wide-eyed wonder "Deliverance, the wild west, this is it," then almost immediately saying "Howdy, Tex" to a complete stranger, it should be quite apparent that the movie makers intended to have fun with this one. I went into this one with no expectations at all. I am not familiar with the Bloodrayne franchise; I have never played any of the games or seen any of the "graphic novels," so there was nothing here to disappoint me by being "non-canonical." I thought it was a great cheesy romp of a movie. I'm sure the fanboys disagree. Oh well. Taken on its own, it is quite entertaining.The soundtrack by Jessica de Rooij is wonderful throughout, by the way, something I could easily believe Moricone had written. If you are the sort of person who appreciates movies like the original cowboys and aliens movie, "Oblivion," or just plain absurd westerns like "Lust in the Dust," you will probably like this one. Just don't watch it with someone who is a fan of the franchise.

"Bloodrayne 2" should be considered as an inept, dull, pointless, cheesy, but worst of all; boring movie.The movie's plot should be taken as a joke but no, it's supposed to be taken seriously. Western plot mixed with vampiric thematic that once had to do with Nazis? You bet.The movie takes plenty of time to finally get in action. There's absolutely no dynamic, interesting plot or dialogs. No action, no good gore, no scares, no suspense. NOTHING. This is a waste of film and shouldn't even be considered as a Horror movie.The acting and f/x are painful while the cinematography is truly for direct to video standards.Uwe Boll is a master on his own. And that means he's the mater of crap horror cinema.

After watching the first movie in this installment, I thought to myself "well isn't this the worst movie I've ever seen." So why would I then watch the second movie? I thought it wasn't possible for a movie to get any worse...I was wrong, dead wrong. This has officially become the worst movie, no worst visual media presentation I have ever in my life seen. The acting was even worse than the first movie, the plot senseless. It has become the biggest waste of my life thus far. Seriously, why would you set a vampire movie in the old wild west? WHY? And truly...why make such a weak and pathetic heroine, with no idea as to strategy or how to save lives. This film was so bad, I'm considering recommending it to everyone I know just so I can inflict the pain that I had to suffer onto them. It really is that bad.