Such a frustrating disappointment

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Somewhere on the Eastern front, Nazis are transporting people to camps. A resistance groups shows up to kill Nazis. And so does Rayne, in the middle of the day. When she confronts the commander, she ends up turning him into a vampire. In the intro we learned that Rayne is the offspring of an evil male vampire and a human woman.A crazy Nazi doctor is experimenting on vampires and when he realizes what the commander has become he has ideas how to make powerful Nazis. Meanwhile the resistance which is headquartered in a whorehouse, keeps planning attacks and how to break Nazi codes. And the Nazis start looking for Rayne. Eventually they capture her and the leaders of the resistance. The doctor sees the potential of her blood to make Hitler indestructible. The remaining resistance will try to stop the Nazis as they make their way to Berlin.Bloodrayne III had potential. They have strong actors in the lovely Natassia Malthe, Michael Pare, Brendan Fletcher, Clint Howard. They had some interesting landscapes in Croatia, realistic uniforms and equipment. The movie does look very good. And the story itself should have worked- Rayne, Nazis, vampires, powerful blood, creepy experiments, etc. But unfortunately it doesn't work. For some reason the put some awful pasty pale makeup on Natassia's face, gave her a lousy haircut and had her wear a silly aviator cap. As a result she looks nowhere as gorgeous as she really is, and they didn't allow her to smile. But we do get a bit of nudity even though you can tell Boll is very uncomfortable filming those scenes. The action scenes are decent but not as good as it should be. There should be some sort of climax to the movie but there really isn't. Editing is a bit messy. One would think they simply didn't have enough budget to make things work, note how short this movie is at about 1:10. Perhaps Boll's method to direct scenes with little preparation doesn't pay off in the end.

As a German I cannot confirm that the German English accent sounded non German. That seemed actually quite accurate. I even thought that some of the actors, including the doctor, were German natives.I doubt that it was a good choice to use that as a stylistic means, though. I suppose people would have preferred the Nazis to speak German instead as in 'Inglorious Basterds'. So would I.The doctor's voice was obviously not the actor's real voice, disregarding the fake accent. It sounded highly unconvincing and so 'over the top' that it might have been okay for a theater performance but not for this or any movie.-the whole movie feels very stiff and heartless -the acting is partly okay but it is overall poorly directed and cut -the action scenes are weakly executed, they are basically very short clips, filmed separately, assembled into one scene to convey the disability of the actors to perform believable moves-the 'love scenes' are not terrible per se but do not contribute to or fit into the plot, especially the first one -the heroine's costume and her typical Gothic red, black hair make her looks quite stupid and far from 'cool'The most audacious part of this production is to turn it into a 70 minute movie (plus 10 minute credits). Low budget AND short? Uwe Boll is apparently making movies for money (not ripping of the audience but his financiers) and has apparently no love for this art form whatsoever.

At first, with the voice over and the train carrying detainees, this movie showed promise. Then the acting, or lack thereof started.What an absolute farce. They took what COULD have been a good movie and ruined it. The "actors" and "director" should all behind bars for this pathetic attempt.Seriously, it is REALLY bad.Probably the best part of the movie was the original WWII archival footage of Hitler.The initial fight scene, I guess, was comical. I almost expected to see the "BAM" and "POW" like in the old Batman TV series.I couldn't take more than 15 minutes of this rubbish, so if you believe in miracles (I don't), it MAY have gotten better - but I honestly doubt it!Read a book!

How bad? Bad enough that FF was not fast enough. A waste of time even at that speed. Usual right off the bat indicators of cheap. No subtitles; audio levels all over the place; camera angles that made no sense; a script that had lines limited to 7 words so that the editors could edit the next monologue due to a lack of memory capacity in people paid to perform (I've seen dogs in animal movies handle their scripts with more skill); same people reading lines as if they were reading directly off of a script page.Uniquely bad to this movie was gunfire that sounded like cheap firecrackers; actors falling just like children keel over with tongues hanging out when they pretend to be shot or jump in the air sideways from an explosion even though it's a block away and even though their clothing or paper on the ground next to them were not affected. The worst martial arts style movements ever seen in a movie consisting of 15 minutes of rehearsal practice on spinning and yelling like a tennis player with each spin. The only part of the movie that seemed natural were the 30 second historical short films of WWII Germany.