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Film Review-BLOODRAYNE: THE THIRD REICH (2011)

Directed by: Uwe Boll

Written by: Michael Nachoff

Produced by: Daniel Clarke & Wolfgang Herold

Summary: Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality. Cast:

Natassia Malthe as Rayne

Michael Paré as Ekart Brand

Brendan Fletcher as Nathaniel

Clint Howard as Doctor Mangler

Willam Belli as Vasyl Tishenko

Natalia Guslistaya as Sniper Natalia

Annett Culp as Magda Marković

Steffen Mennekes as Lt. Kaspar Jaeger

Safiya Kaygin as Svetlana Koerk

Vjekoslav Katusin as German Soldier

Goran Manić as Boris

Fabrice Colson as Partisan

Petar Benčić as Driver

Boris Bakal as Adolf Hitler

The 3rd BloodRayne film isn't much better than what proceeded it. It's so far from the source material that if you just started watching it and nobody told you what it was you wouldn't be able to identify it as anything relating to the BloodRayne series. The issue with adaptation films is usually that they end up being hated for failing to understand what fans enjoyed about the original work and in this instance, they don't even really try with what they have.

This installment in the trilogy IS the best in the series even with all of it's flaws, but that's not really saying much if you've seen the others. You see, Uwe Boll is most known for making schlock horror films which are made on a small budget and are usually campy to the point of hilarity. That style of filmmaking just doesn't work when you're taking on a property that already exists in entertainment because it feels like you aren't taking the material seriously and that this is just a cash grab for you. What makes this this one the best yet is the action is handled better but a lot of the same issues are present. The setting finally resembles something we know from the games, but it's handled with no skill or tact whatsoever. This is Nazi Germany for God's sake. Boll doesn't do ANYTHING to capture the grisly and sickening nature of that location during that time period. Rayne as a character is lifeless and boring, the villains are all stenciled and uninteresting. The concept of Vampires is still not used in any way that makes this film unique or special. There is really just nothing to see here. THE GOOD

This film manages to make strides at getting closer to the source material while also moving further away from it. At the very least though the action has gotten a little more watchable.

THE BAD

What made the games interesting from the antagonist standpoint was all the different experimental Nazi Supermen of the GeigenGeist Gruppe but this film doesn’t capture that in the least. It settles for these generic cookie cutter, bad guy, evil Vampires that are opposite Rayne.

Natassia Malthe is still a terrible choice to play Rayne and they changed the look so much that she doesn’t even remotely resemble any version of the character at this point. You never get the sense that she’s even aware of the stakes in this film, her emotions remain mostly the same throughout. In the games Rayne is mostly sarcastic and vengeful but she doesn’t react differently to certain plot elements.

I don’t know how Uwe Boll keeps managing to make sex and nudity unappealing but he pulls it off flawlessly every time.

For a film based on a game where you murder tons of Nazis and monsters there isn’t a lot of carnage or blood in this film. The fight scenes aren’t as bad as they were in the previous films, but more gore would have been nice.

I give this film a 2.1 out of 10 PLEASE STOP MAKING THESE!

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