Third time was almost the charm. Boll came so close to making a good B-movie. The production values are high enough that it looks like it could have actually been shown in theaters and it manages to pull off a more satisfying combination of gore, action, and horror in a WWII setting than Overlord did. He even finally figured out how to make a half-vampire chick running around in a skin-tight outfit sexy, which should have always been a given. Unfortunately all of this was squandered in a movie with a baffling lack of action. A fantastic opening gives way to a lot of talking as we watch the Nazis and resistance fighters scheme for the entire middle section of the movie. It makes what should have been a breezy hour-and-nineteen-minute running time feel excruciatingly long. It doesn't help that the acting and dialog are atrocious. Apparently nobody involved knew how to do a German accent (I'm convinced Michael Paré just gave up trying at a certain point) so everyone sounds really unnatural. A shame because they had a cool idea for the plot, but allowed it to play out in a most uninteresting manner. This is still easily the best of the BloodRayne trilogy. When it's focusing on delivering grindhouse style thrills like blood, sex, and violence it's legitimately a lot of fun. Especially since it's sporting some of the best directing Uwe Boll ever did. There isn't enough of it however, so the momentum it establishes early on fizzles out pretty quickly. Your attention ends up waning long before things pick up again near the rather sloppy finale. So despite the initial promise it shows, The Third Reich is sadly only more wasted potential.