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  • DVD: Bloodrayne: The Third Reich Unrated Director’s Cut
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Starring: Natassia Malthe, Michael Paré, Brendan Fletcher, Clint Howard
  • Written By: Michael Nachoff
  • Directed By: Uwe Boll
  • Distributor: Phase 4 Films
  • Original Year of Release: 2011
  • Extras: See Below
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Bloodrayne: The Third Reich Unrated Director’s Cut DVD Review

Uwe Boll is at it again!

By Tim Janson     August 07, 2011


Natassia Malthe is Bloodrayne
© Phase 4 Films

 

I supposed I should have known better…When you see the name Uwe Boll connected to any film you can’t set your expectations to high. Bloodryane: The Third Reich is the third film in the series based on the videogame and the third directed by Boll. To be fair, the film gets off to a promising start. This time the setting is World War II as German soldiers are transporting a group of Jewish prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Boll handles this with remarkable subtlety. It’s not Schindler’s List but the downtrodden march of the prisoners off the train to what they know is their ultimate destination serves as a grim reminder of the horrors of the war. Unfortunately this is only ten minutes of the entire film and it never again hits such a high note.
 
A group of resistance fighters attacks the German soldiers getting unexpected aid from Bloodrayne (Malthe). Rayne kills the camp’s Commandant, Ekart Brand (Pare) but she makes the mistake of feeding on him to heal her wounds, thus turning him into a Dhampir like her, essentially a vampire without the traditional weaknesses to the Sun, crosses, etc…When Brand returns to life he enlists the aid of a nutty German scientist played by Clint Howard, to try to create a super army of Dhampir with Rayne’s blood and even plans to turn Adolf Hitler into one as well. Rayne joins with the resistance fighters to try and stop Brand’s nefarious plan.
 
Bloodrayne:The Third Reich has an interesting story. I’m down for anything that finds a sexy vampire slicing up Nazis. It’s just too bad that there is so little of that to be found in Boll’s ponderous film. Part of the reason there is such a light amount of action is that Boll would rather waste time on gratuitous sex and nudity scenes, including a lesbian sex scene between Rayne and a woman in a brothel. Look, nothing against a little titillation but Boll spends about 10 minutes on the brothel scene alone and the entire film is only 75 minutes long. When we finally get to the climactic showdown between Rayne and Ekart, its over in a heartbeat. Rayne spends more time dispatching a pair of random vampires who attack her in the streets earlier in the film. Clearly Boll doesn’t seem to have much of a sense for the dramatic. 
 
The fact that the DVD is titled as the “unrated Director’s Cut” is curious. If the Director’s cut is only 75 minutes long, how long is the standard cut? Well guess what, a quick search at Amazon found there is no standard cut so why advertise this as a Director’s Cut? What’s the point? One thing about Boll is that when he finds actors he likes he continues to re-use them over and over. Pare was in the two previous Bloodrayne films; Fletcher was in Bloodrayne II and Alone in the Dark; and both of them along with Clint Howard will be in Boll’s latest film Blubberella. I have to confess, I never tire of seeing Clint Howard in another screwball role. 
 
Natassia Malthe isn’t a strong or compelling lead, despite playing the role of Bloodrayne for he second time but then again, she isn’t given much to work with. Still, the first two Bloodyane films will hardly go down as classics so perhaps running only 75 Minutes Bloodrayne: The Third Reich may not be better, but it is less torturous. 
 
DVD Extras
 
The Making of Bloodrayne: The Third Reich (27:00) – Pretty standard documentary with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Boll and most of the cast. Interesting here is that Boll seems to hang his hat as a Director on the fact that he gets films made on time and within budget, rather than the films being good.
 
Interview with the Writer (5:52) – short interview with writer Michael Nachoff who talks about the story’s development.
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hanso 8/7/2011 5:28:37 PM

 Seriously, why do you do this to yourself?

millean 8/8/2011 9:08:27 AM

Gotta agree with Hanso on this one.  :)

So Uwe Boll is directing a movie called Blubberella?  I hope it doesn't come out the same weekend as The Dark Knight Rises, cause I'd hate Batman's drawing power to be hampered by this can't miss mega blockbuster...

RaithManan 8/8/2011 10:40:47 AM

Hanso my friend....it just goes so show you that Uwe Boll must be stopped.  I'm more frightened by the fact Michael Pare, who was once a touted and talented commodity early in his acting career before finding a niche as a producer since, stepped in front of the camera for anything involving Uwe Boll.

I really think Boll must have photos of certain execs having sex with a goat or a nanny for him to keep getting financed by studios to make films so gut-wrenching that makes you want to stab your brain and eyeballs with an ice pick.  "I surrender, I SURRENDER!!"  

doublec 8/8/2011 11:12:36 AM

The reason Uwe Boll keeps getting to make this schlock is because he's found loopholes in the German tax system so that all his films make money. This is how he can keep getting the level of talent he gets, because he can afford to pay them.

Tim, you have a bad habit of putting actors' last names in parenthesis after their character name without ever giving us their first name. Just so ya know.

And the reason for calling it the "Director's Cut" when it's the only cut is because it sells better if you call it the Directors Cut or the Unrated Edition. Back in the days when I ran a video store I used to say you could tape a tree blowing in the wind for ninety minutes, put it in a case with the tree on the cover, and call it "The Tree: Unrated Edition" and it would rent like mad.

lusiphur 8/8/2011 11:36:38 AM

 doublec - if you look in the left column, there is a list of actors, directors and such.  That's where the full names are.  It takes some getting used to, but that's where it is.

As for the movie, I think I saw part of the first one on SciFi.  And then I did something else.  Can't believe they're back for a third.

SmokingFrog77 8/8/2011 3:06:13 PM

Has anybody seen Uwe Boll's "Auschwitz"?? Yes. Uwe Boll made a serious movie about Auschwitz. I saw the teaser online ages ago, which just features a slow zoom on Boll in an army uniform standing awkwardly outside the door to a gas chamber whilst through a window in the door you can see people screaming and running around, and presumably, dying. Lasts about 30 seconds then the words "Uwe Boll's AUSCHWITZ" are slammed up on the screen.

Freaky. I remember the site I found this on had the headline "Mother of God, Uwe Boll has made an Auschwitz movie!".

doublec 8/8/2011 6:25:13 PM

Ah. My dumb.

8man 8/9/2011 10:55:30 AM

I wasn't interested in this until he mentioned the scene between Rayne and bordello tramp.  Maybe that's why Pare took the gig, Boll told him he'd be doing Malthe.

tjanson 8/10/2011 8:51:14 AM

doublec...as mentioned.  The credits with the actors full names is listed at the top left which is why I generally only give the last name when mentioning them within the body of the review.  If i do give the full name its because i didn't mention it in the top credits...as it may have been a smaller role.  hope that helps. 

aegrant 8/10/2011 10:07:39 AM

They have made 3 of these?

Really?

I think i was able to watch maybe the first 30 minutes of the original and that was only cause the main character had a nice pair of tig ol bitties!

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