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Summary: Wesley Snipes is Back
Review: I Have Seen The first Blade at least 20 times and I Can't wait for the long awaited sequel. Wesley Snipes was fantastic as Blade his first time out and I'll bet my bottom dollar he'll take the character Blade to a new level.
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Summary: the newest installment to the blade trilogy...
Review: Well, noone of course has seen this movie, including me. So I'll just tell you what I know. The first movie was an amazing success, and if the newest one lives up to it or even better surpasses it, it will surely be in your video collection in a year. This latest BLADE focuses on Blade teaming up with vampires to stop a new bread of monsters called "reapers" which affects both humans and vampires alike. So its up to our hero blade to stop them, but before he does that can he stand being with the ones he hates? Tune in March 27 to see!
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Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: After the first installment in the Blade series, I was really looking forward to the sequel - and I wasn't dissapointed. This far surpasses Blade and just hightens the suspense for Blade: Trinity (out Dec 10). Wesley Snipes is his usual great self in a fast-paced, suspense action movie. Kris Kristofferson is brilliant as Whistler once again (as are the rest of the cast). If you liked the first then you will definetly like this - and hopefully like me you cant wait for Blade: Trinity !
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Summary: Lots of Bloody Fun
Review: "Blade ll" offers exactly what you would expect: Lots of martial arts fighting, thin plotting and ghoulish vampires, but the surprise is in director Guillermo Del Toro exhilirating and stylish approach, which elevate the film above its somewhat far-fetched plot, even for a vampire movie. Wesley Snipes reprises his role as the titular vampire hunter, and with just as much aching cool as he did the first time around. Within the first ten minutes of the film, he saves his mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) from torture, and a new breed of vampire shows its face. A Reaper. A super-strong and almost indestructible foe that turns it vampire victims into new Reapers and this gang is led by a jolly good fellow Jared Nomak (Luke Goss). Seeing Nomak as a threat, the Vampire Nation offers a truce to Blade for his help in hunting down and killing the super-vamps. But of course, nothing for Blade is what it seems, especially with David S. Goyer's occasionally juvenile script.But Snipes (who also co-produced the film) and Del Toro shine in this kind of movie. Intense fight scenes comprise nearly half the film, involving swords, guns, bombs and plenty of fist-flying, giving fans of the first film what they really want: Blade kicking much Vampire ass. But the fights are sometimes marred by painfully obvious computer effects, and a couple painfully trashy shots. But these are minor quips, seeing as Snipes is so freakin' cool as the big bad Daywalker, and Del Toro stages the battles with intense, macabre applomb. If your in the mood for escapist fare with plenty of bloody violence, "Blade ll" fits the bill nicely. The DVD includes a making of, details on the Vampire make-up and interviews with Del Toro, Snipes and David S. Goyer.
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Summary: Don't Fear the Reaper
Review: Human tots have a lot to worry about come sundown: vampires, werewolves, nasty squishy monsters that lurk in the dank dark depths of their closet.
Vampire kids don't worry about prosaic things like that. They've got *really* scary things that live in *their* closets.
Sun comes up, coffin lid closes, and---if we can believe the portly Mexican mastermind of the Macabre and Blade 2 director Guillermo Del Toro---the young Vamp mind starts worrying about something called the Reaper, a new breed of vampires that looks like the love-spawn of Max Schreck's ratty-faced Nosferatu, the Predator, and a leech after a rotgut-fueled all-nighter at a cheap Arizona interstate hotel.
The product of that wild and fun-filled romp---nah, I'm kidding, actually the product of some friendly neighborhood Vampire Corp genetic shake-&-bake and a whole lotta attitude and angst---is the hemi-vampire Nomak (played in solid, workmanly fashion by Luke Goss, who proves he has plenty of presence).
That's NOMAK, the nasty Reaper critter who tells us early and often that he hates vampires---not NOMAD, the annoying beepy floaty war-death-robot-machine thing from Star Trek. It's funny, because Uber-Machiavellian Vampire Overlord Damaskinos (German actor Thomas Kretschmann doing dat immortal thang) said the same thing: "NOMAD? Why is my eternal slumber disturbed by that annoying blinky floaty stupid Star Trek robot???"---and then his surviving henchmen made it clear it was NOMAK. The, er, REAPER overlord, Sir, not the annoying floaty robot from Star Trek.
I'm kiddding, that didn't really happen in Blade 2. Del Toro revs up the splatter/action quotient here, dispensing with sleek, sexy, super-plotting corporate and rave-club bloodsuckers in favor of the Max Schreck baldies: slick, shiny, gummy, watery, lamp-wick white horrors with serious---I mean SERIOUS---cases of cleft palate.
Worse, they want to cleave YOUR palate, the Reaper way, and vampirism of any strain being the b*tch it is, that means you get to trade in your sleek trendy nightclub immortal looks to be---well, to be a shiny, gummy, death-white baldheaded monster with a jaw an Alien Queen would die for.
The Super-sexy Prada-wearing Vamps wake up just in the nick of time after Nomak turns a Prague blood-bank into an abbatoir, realize they've been spending *wayyyyyyy* too much time at Broadway show post-parties and following the oil and bond market, and dispatch a special squad of super-soldier vamps---called the Bloodpack, those subtle vampires---to deal with the growing Reaper threat.
Being that the Bloodpack was originally trained to terminate our fave Brotha-from-anotha-Planet Blade (Wesley Snipes, doing his his shrugging/sneering/slaughtering thing just fine), Damaskinos decides to send daughter Nyssa (Chilean beauty Leonor Varela, who can't act her way out of a paper coffin but---well, she's hot) and Major-Domo Asad (Danny John-Jules, the Cat from Red Dwarf, if that trips your light fantastic, as it didn't mine)as ambassadors to bring the Daywalker on board.
Unfortunately the Vampire Nation may have great stock tips, but it has yet to perfect the simple art of PR and good-neighborship. Rather than send a nice card or e-mail, they send Nyssa and Asad into Blade's hide-out in full Ninja getup, right down to night-vision goggles, Samurai katanas, and really obvious CGI. Blade isn't ever in a good mood, and he's even in less of one having just had to bring mentor and good-ol-a**-kicking boy Whistler (the great Kris Kristofferson) back from the other side---and the approach, ultimately successful, initially sets things off on the wrong foot and just creates bad blood.
Hehhheheh, "bad blood"; sorry. Anyway, The rest of the flick you can probably write yourself: ample splatter, bloodletting, Blade and the Bloodpack chasing the baldy brigade through murky halls, streets, sewers and tunnels, plenty of tension between Bloodpack uber-honcho Reinhardt (Ron Perlman, who made me BELIEVE even when Blade 2 ratcheted its absurdity to LEVEL 10)and Blade. Which is bound to happen if (Reinhardt) you're constantly muscling up in Blade's face or pushing Whistler around, or if (Blade) you affix a bomb to Reinhardt's shiny pate.
It's completely ridiculous but absurdly fun. Del Toro and writer David Goyer (who directed the third installment) keep the foolishness moving along at a rapid clip, so while your brain will stall somewhere in the first 15 minutes, and start to decay and rot perhaps five minutes later, you'll never miss it. Trust me. Cinematographer Gabriel Berstain (Blade: Trinity, S.W.A.T., lots of other pretty action-flix) makes everything look good, which pulls off the final successful insult to your brain. Like a lobotomy, there might be serious consequences, but after it's done are you really gonna care?
There are plenty of silly things that take away from the Cool Factor, which, for Blade 2, is a NINE out of a maximum TEN: for instance, you might go "?" when Nyssa warns Blade (before taking him to a Vamps-only club) "you'll see things---things our people do in privacy"---and then you're all ready for something wildly impressive, the club doors open up, and it looks like Goth-night on a slow Thursday at the raver-bar of your choice. Whoopee. Or the Vamp Nation goon squad, with their silly bullet-bike helmets and their stun-batons---I mean, you're bringing down monster immortals, guys---mebbe a little napalm or silver chainsaw action is in order, guys?
It may sound like I'm knocking Blade II---don't be fooled. Del Toro keeps a tight ship, the dialogue is smart and snappy, the flick looks great and moves along. Frankly, it does what more films *should* do: whisks us away from the Hell we call reality for two hours and dazzles our eyes.
Mission accomplished, with a side dish of (bloody red) steak Tar-Tar.
JSG
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Summary: just as amazing as its predecessor
Review: just as powerful and shocking as the first one
see this
it will shock you just as much as Blade did
it's awesome
have seen it 2 times already on my dvd player
count on it staying a true classic over the next 90 years
it really does terrify and entertain you
Snipes is the perfect vampire night killer
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Summary: Superb sequel and a great 2-Disc Edition!
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The daywalker known as "Blade" ( Wesley Snipes) is back! but this time, there is a race of powerful vampire creatures known only as "Reapers", they are parasitic genetically enhanced vampiric beings that suck the blood of both humans and vampires alike as they are bent on draining the lives of both races. A new order vampire clan joins up with Blade and Whistler ( Kris Kristofferson)as they both must be with the clan to exterminate these new breed bloodsuckers.
An electrifying and ultraviolent sequel to the 1998 hit based on Marvel Comics vampire flick that reunites Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson with of course a new cast most reconigizably Ron Perlman from Hellboy and City of Lost Children as one of the vampire warriors. Director Guillermo Del Toro's style for this movie is just impressive as it triumphs over the original in anyway with more action, more vampires ( but some different ones this time), more gore, better acting and fantastic martial arts sequences that are cherographed nicely.
The 2-Disc DVD has great stuff like crisp picture & Sound, two audio commentaries, isolated scroe, Deleted/Alternate scenes with commentary, galleries, documentaries, music video, trailer, and DVD Rom content. This is a must have DVD for the fanatics of horror movies, action, comic book movies, and vampire flicks alike, you won't regret it.
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Summary: SOOOOOO Bad
Review: I was sooo bored in the theater when I went to go see this with my bf, who liked the first one. The theater only had 4 other people in it and by mid-movie, only 2 were left. I think they were sleeping. Speaking of mid-movie, by then I was so bored I was actually looking around for something to do. Yes that's how restless I was getting. Good vampire v.s underworld of vampire evil. Now I love vampire movies, but this was bad. But you know, at least my bf was transfixed; when he pried his eyes off the screen he knew that was the last time he'd pick a movie. and yes; he thought it was a pretty good movie. Ahhhh!
Anyways, the whole thing was really dark lit(obviously, and very redundant- even the fight scenes. Fight to get to the big bad guy, he gets away, plan for another day, all over again.
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Summary: Beware of the Reapers...
Review: The film brings back to the screen the story of Blade, the vampire hunter, himself a human-vampire hybrid in which he must ally with his enemies in order to prevent a new breed of vampires from taking over. It is a highly entertaining, action-packed adventure/thriller with significant elements of horror.
Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman, and the rest of the cast carry out their performances very well, though the choice of Norman Reedus as Scud was poor at best as he does overdo it with his character's "attitude;" it gets tiring, not to mention extremely annoying after a while (but then again that could have been done on purpose in order to pave the way for his "ending"). In any case, he is not convincing in his role.
Aside from that, the plot, the setting, the special effects, the MUSIC, and the swordfights are all EXCELLENT! Blade is a movie guaranteed to provide an evening's entertainment.
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Summary: Daywalker & Vampires Unite
Review: A new strain of stronger, more virulant vampirism has developed and its carrier doesn't differentiate between human and vampire victims. The Vampire Nation offer Blade a truce and ask him to lead their Blood Pack (a group originally in training to hunt him) in a search and destroy mission.
This film is dark, comedic, stylized (based on the comic book of the same name) action, and has some nice character moments, especially as the line between enemy and friend becomes blurred between Blade and Nyssa, the leader of the Blood Pack and daughter of the Vampire overlord and Blade and his newly rescued/vampire detoxed mentor Whistler.
Wesley Snipes, as Blade, has cool down to a science. Watching his fight scenes is like watching music in motion. Luke Goss, who plays the threat and new strain of vampirism, a Reaper, although looked and dressed like hell, carried himself with elegance, definitely an aristocratic heir/son (which his character is). Ron Perlman "sucks" in the best possible way as the vampire Reinhardt. He's a nice mix of blood stopping toughness, undead cool and black humor (a vampire who chews gum? And blows bubbles during an autopsy? Thankfully it wasn't his own).
The DVD has great in depth behind the scenes footage and a commentary by writer David Goyer and star Wesley Snipes and a commentary by producer Peter Frankfurt and director Guillermo Del Toro (who should get a special Academy Award for Best Movie Commentaries).
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