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Summary: Best Snipes Movie to date
Review: Stylish comic book to movie conversion packed with excellent Matrix-like action sequences and explosive fight scenes by the truckload. Wesley Snipes is bang on for this role as the menacing daywalker Blade. Great stuff - and there's a sequel on the way.
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Summary: Blade
Review: Blade is one of the best action movies ever made. The direction and cinematography of the film make it a true gem. The acting is very good. Anyone who says different must have seen another film entirely and not the movie I saw. This movie was far better than expected. I thought this movie was going to be a fair film, but I was very wrong. I was a repeat movie-goer for this film, which rarely occurs. This is one of Wesley Snipes best films and he is a superb actor. My one wish is that the sequel maintains the quality set by this movie. This film is the template on how to bring a comic to the big screen.
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Summary: Laughable
Review: This is one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. The acting was horrible and at parts, not-intentionally funny. It has some O.K. fight sequences, but aside from that small pro, there is nothing else to look forward to. When Blade grabbed onto the train going over 60 MPH, I fell out of my chair laughing. The sad part about this movie is it actually had potential. Luckily it was short because I have never looked at my watch so many times during a movie.
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Summary: This is a gory, and badly acted film
Review: I don;t know why so many people liked this film, it was gory and had some of the worst acting ever in it. I would rather watch a Godzilla film.
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Summary: Very entertaining
Review: It is amazing that Marvel did such a wonderful job bringing this character to the silver screen. The cinematography is great, the action sequences are amazing and Wesly Snipes was a perfect choice to play Blade, the half-human, half-vampire hero of the film. Get the DVD and you get to see the alternate ending which is pretty cool.
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Summary: Eye popping special effects, great story!!
Review: By far the best vampire film I have ever seen! Wesley Snipes plays Blade, a half vampire half man on a mission to destroy all vampires, find a healing for himself, and find the vampire who killed his mother and made his what he is. Great special effects and fighting. This is for any fan of horror/action. Rent this!
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Summary: One of the best action films to come out recently..
Review: This is a GREAT film. Why? First off, it is based on a cool Marvel comics character, Blade, a half-human, half-vampire vampire hunter. Second, it was a Marvel Comics character that was brought to the screen correctly, which is a miracle (remember Captain America, the Spider-Man TV show and the recently re-designed X-Men?). And third, they got the right guy to play Blade. Wesly Snipes was perfect as Blade. Another miracle. Fourth: The fight scenes are magnifique! This is one the best action film that has ever been made.
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Summary: The Wachowski's Inspiration for Matrix?
Review: STORY: Half Vampire, half Human, Blade (Wesley Snipes) fights against evil Vampires led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) who have plans to conquer the world. He is assisted by veteran Vampire hunter Whistler, portrayed by Kris Kristofferson. CAST: Wesley Snipes plays the ultra cool hero and you definately root for him. Although it seems that sometimes he tries too hard at being a hero but most of the time he succeeds. What makes Stephen Dorff's character scary is his innteligence, which is expressed beautifully in the actor's eyes. He is probably one of the most convincing comic villans since Jack Nicholson in Batman. SCRIPT: It is based on a comic series, so the story is rather thin. There are very original ideas about the modern Vampires but some far-fetched plot parts and untied story strings. But the hero get's his catchy one-liners and there is plenty of irony in it, which helps to not take it too serious. DIRECTING: As I first saw it, the images blew me away. The fight scenes are beautifully choreographed and shot and there's a really stylish atmosphere to it. The industrial soundtrack adds to the rythmic editing and accelerates the fights. The special effects are somewhat weak, but this is a glossy B-Movie and that is part of the fun it provides. As I saw the brilliant "Matrix" one year later I realized that some shots seemed very familiar to Blade. THE DVD: The picture quality of the DVD is wonderful but the Dolby Digital sountrack lacks some dimension. But the disc is loaded with extra features including commentary and isolated score. The most interesting ones deal with the history of Vampires and they match perfect with the movie ALL IN ALL. Brace yourself for a fun, loud ride with some special effect and story flaws. Just shut down your brain before you start and enjoy!
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Summary: A New Breed of Vampire Flick
Review: The familiar stereotypes of the vampire overlord, the female victim and the dedicated hunter are firmly in place, but with a modern, cyber twist. Based on the successful Marvel Comics series, 'Blade' is kung fu cool meets 'The Matrix' - the real world is a different place to what you thought. Blade is a half-vampire who hunts the undead to avenge the death of his mother, who was bitten while pregnant, thus giving him "all of our strengths, non of our weaknesses". Referred to as "the daywalker" by the creatures he hunts, he is aided by Whistler, a semi-alcoholic, laconic sidekick who lost his family to vampires and Karen Jenson, a haematologist. Snipes plays Blade as a tortured, granite-faced warrior with a spirituality the audience is supposed to compare to that of Samurai. Complete with deadpan one-liners, he stalks and stakes with gusto, never quite revealing any wimpy emotion. The uber-villian of the piece is the designer-shirted Deacon Frost, played with menacing cool by former brat-pack actor, Stephen Dorff. Frost has discovered an ancient ritual that will resurrect 'La Magra' - the Blood God, who is capable of triggering a "vampire apocalypse". This ritual also happens to require the blood of the daywalker, setting the scene for a climatic showdown between the hunter and the overlord. Surrounded by a cadre of underlings, the most three dimensional of whom being Quinn, a playful heavy with puppy dog enthusiasm, Frost is far from the traditional vampire. In Blade's world, vampires are not creatures that skulk in cemeteries impersonating Bela Lugosi on a bad day - they are powerful figures in business and politics with vast financial resources. They have Swiss bank accounts, ultra-modern penthouse apartments and complete control over the authorities due to a back-alley treaty with the government. Frost represents a threat to the established way of vampire life enforced by the House of Erebus - a ruling cabal of twelve elders who live by the maxim 'we do things quietly and the humans will leave us alone'. By conjuring La Magra, Frost hopes to enslave mankind. 'Blade' is a film that is very much a triumph of style over substance. The action sequences, especially the final confrontation between Blade and Frost, are spectacular, although the disintegration of vampire corpses does become a little wearisome. The initial scenes in the vampire nightclub have a body count rivalling that of the goriest shoot-em up computer games. Everyone looks good, whether it's Frost's trendy haircut, or Blade's cyber-warrior cool, complete with tribal tattoos. The array of weaponry and gadgets is impressive, special mentions going to Blade's titanium katana and Karen's 'vampire mace' comprising of garlic and silver nitrate. The plot is hardly Shakespearean, racing from one sword-twirling slaughter to another, but is redeemed by some eerie flashback moments. The sarcastic, sometimes snappy dialogue oozes street cred and provides a nice foil to the action sequences. Characterisation is a problem, with most of the cast either cardboard cutout 'goodies' or 'baddies'. An exception to this is Blade. Although the villain has evil written through him like a stick of rock, the hero is not as lily white as the usual hunter - Blade has to constantly battle his vampire side. Karen Jenson initially looks promising as a doctor with the potential to cure Blade's thirst, but quickly lapses into the victim role with occasional bursts of heroism. One obvious oversight in the film is the twelve 'pure bloods' of the House of Erebus - they are woefully underused. Overall, 'Blade' is a frenetically paced cyber thriller for a new generation of vampire fans. Despite its faults, it is a welcome addition to a genre that was in danger of collapsing beneath the weight of cliché. Leave your brain in a jar by the door, enjoy the action and be prepared for a desire to don kevlar body armour and learn kung fu. Helen C. Murphy. Resident Author. BloodLust-uk.com
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Summary: Let me put the other reviews to rest...
Review: First off, I'm no goth. And I've seen too many excellent films to truly be able to call this ANOTHER excellent film. But it succeeds where a lot of bigger-budget (and less interesting) action films fail, and actually possesses several different elements that will appeal to movie buffs of other genres. The aforementioned 'hong kong' influence is easily spotted, but from the opening sequence in the meat plant, to the final showdown, the production values of the film are fantastic. Stephen Dorff makes an able enough villain, and Kris Kristofferson actually steals the show with his gnarled, grizzly performance as Blade's weapons man, Whistler. Wesley Snipes has pretty much established himself as the premier US action movie star; his Karate and Capoeira skills making you fully believe that he IS Blade. Some of the camera cut-aways are cheesy, but that's about my only complaint. Good use of time-lapse photography and a nice soundtrack that doesn't detract from the film at any moment. I'm sure it looks and sounds amazing on DVD, but I've never seen it on that format. At the very least, this is a masterful b-film--on par with Brandon Lee's "The Crow". And above all, it stands (before X-Men got released) as a blueprint that shows how you can make movies from comic books that don't have to be moronic or crass.
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