Blade: A blood chilling action-packed thriller about modern day vampires unlike any previously encountered. Wesley Snipes is Blade the ultimate vampire hunter and immortal warrior who possesses the superhuman strength and cunning of a vampire but shares none of their weakness. Able to walk by day and stalk by night Blade must confront his ultimate adversary the omnipotent vampire overlord Deacon Frost Stephen Dorff who is intent on leading an underground legion of va
The first Blade film nearly had me punching the air. It is was an energising, borderline inspiring film, and brilliant for its rendition of a comic book character in a way that is true to the medium. When Blade 2 was out on DVD I saw it with friends and immediately forgot about it. That, it transpires, was good practice. The second viewing of the film made me want to punch the studio executives, and jump over furniture, diving for the remote at about one quarter distance. Ron Perlman's appearance in this film, as in Alien Resurrection, is a signal that the movie is about to descend to Hell, Boy. Why does Hollywood fail so consistently with sequels? One suspects that a proven formula attracts rather too many marketing 'creatives'. All the things that made the first film watchable are absent, namely atmosphere, interest, characterisation, and, oh yes, story. All sacrificed on the inverted cross of mass appeal; the great many who measure the success of a film by the number of explosions will not be disappointed, however. The plot is lame. A new species of Vampire with articulated jaws is able to prey on old model vampires who thus face classical Darwinian redundancy. Blade is recruited by Perlman et.al. to defend the status quo in quasi-military fashion. If that is insufficiently contrived, the casting director has another stake to drive through your cerebrum. Do you hate it when you see a face in a film you cannot quite place? You're lost because you think it may be a comedic actor? Yep, enter Danny John Jules - the Cat from Red Dwarf. It's tempting to speculate he got the part owing to his experience wearing fake fangs. As for why Luke Goss got a part as the undead, best not go there. The Vampire genus of the horror species is over populated. There is no point in reviving the corpse after Nosferatu (1922), the Hammer films, Interview, and Blade. We don't really need to know about the morphology or the evolution of the vampire parasite. It's just not interesting, and a bit too anorakish. Blade 2 is sucked dry of any charm or mystery. Someone should expose new vampire films to sunlight before they are developed.
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