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Blade II (Single Disc Edition)

Blade II (Single Disc Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very bloody movie
Review: I thought the first movie of Blade was average.. then I heard about this one.. then I saw the poster. Folks, the graphic artist who designed this poster deserves an award, because the poster is FANTASTIC! It was the poster that actually drew my attention to the movie and boy I was not disappointed one bit!

Blade II is a bloody and violent film with wonderful special effects. In this movie, viewers are taken deeper into the Vampire Nation, we learn more about the parallel world in which they live, very much like the normal daywalker world, but more bloody and violent.

The whole idea of the Vampire Nation is really cool.. makes you want to find out more about the whole Blade story and the world he lives in!

All in all, the movie did it's job, and that is to entertain. I was thoroughly entertained by this movie! The music was fantastic, the costumes were fantastic, the FANGS were fantastic and the action was DEFINATELY fantastic!! For 2hrs of pure entertaining escapism, this movie should not be missed!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Much better than the 1st one
Review: As of this point there are approximately 123 reviews prior to the one that I'm posting so I'll keep it short. If you like action and the first Blade you will absolutely lose your marbles watching this one. The fight scenes are great and rather that trying to copy the wire-fu of Hong Kong action, they take a more viceral approach to the fights scenes. I mean when someone gets hit you're like "ouch that's gotta hurt", instead of "gee that looked really cool".

Be warned however, this ones pretty bloody and they use blood that looks real not any of that cartoon CGI stuff like in the first one. I mean the gore factor in this leaves the first Blade looking like an episode of Pokemon.

There are only a few points in the movie that I didn't like but they are far from anything major. The princess in this movie is as stiff as a board, the ending is kind of hoaky, and the doctor from the first one is missing; now that last one is the one that really ticked me off because I liked her.

Well, anyway one of the best action movies of the year with some of the best fight scenes you'll ever see even better than Hong Cinema for the most part. Now, if we can just get Wesley and Jet to do a movie together and may the best man win.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Blade 2
Review: Well, what can I say this movie is the most incredible remake of the comic. This movie was non-stop action, until the end where he's fighting the bloodsucker, I mean it was really awesome and the effects were great. This movie is going to become a classic and a movie that will never die. I hope the director is preparing for the third one.Please make it better!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: ...like a vacuum cleaner.
Review: At last comes the sequel to one of the baddest action films of the 90's. Although it looks like it wants to be as good as the first "Blade", to me it falls just short.
The concept of this movie was pretty original, at least. The idea of mutated vampires feeding on their own is pretty cool. While at first it seems senseless and cowardly for the vamp nation to align itself with its most hated enemy to deal with the problem, by the time the whole plot is established, the light bulb comes on. The writers did a decent job in that aspect. The action here is fast and furious all the way through, rarely slowing down to further the plot (good thing it actually did, once or twice). There's even more kung-fu-fightin' goodness this time around than in the first flick. Blade himself gets a little help with his moves from computer-generated graphics, though. Also, just like the first flick, cool toys and vamp-killing gadgets abound to please the technophile in all of us.
As slick-looking as the film was, the story left me in more than a couple of places saying, "Huh?" 'Course, the first "Blade" was like that, too, and I'm sure they wanted to leave a couple of things for another possible sequel. I didn't really care for the ending, either, but I won't spoil that. The gore factor this time around, on a scale of 1 to 10, is about a 12. It was mostly just gallons of blood in "Blade", which doesn't bother me, but here...let's just say the film crew did some experimenting. Some of the more graphic stuff was just plain disturbing.
All in all, "Blade II" is pretty satisfying action-wise; as far as the story, it could've been better. If you liked the first film, you'll probably like this one, although it doesn't pack as much of an adrenaline rush as the first one did.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Nice, but...nice
Review: Well, after having read all these recommendations and praises like "better than the first" and so on i see myself urged to wave my hand a little bit. Is it really that good?

Story: Well, who cares about a story in a fight/action movie anyway. But on the other hand: Blade 1 had a lot of story what made it stand out of the stack. Blade 2 lived from that, i think i would have gone out of the theatre and forgot about the plot immediately if there ahd not been the broad setting of the first movie.

Action: More fights, more guns, more speed, more athletic wireworks and more fighting styles (even wrestling, i had a big laugh with it). Donnie Yens choreography is astounding as ever (see "Highlander: Endgame" for more of it). But all these fights in a row were entertaining but arbitrary. They didn't belong to the plot, they were videoclips inside the movie and it was clear who will win. They did not support any story, they just were there to show off.

Overall: More cool posing (sunglasses in dark sewers), more cool fights, less atmosphere and story. I personally like story. I actually need a story, good characterization, a dense plot and a fitting atmosphere (sets, music, clothing, the lot) to really love a movie and get sucked into it. If they manage to include real good fights to all that, i will praise it into all hights available (Example? Matrix, of course, and Blade 1). Blade 2 was nice and entertaining. Nothing more, but nothing less.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Special Effects Extravaganza
Review: Blade II will pump your adrenaline so hard with its intricately choreographed martial arts scenes and dynamic effects that you'll feel as if you participated in the fight by movie's end. A triumphant and tragic tale well told!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Awesome Fast Paced Action Movie!
Review: This movie was awesome! Its way better than the first blade. It had non-stop action and the vampires are really cool like the vampires that had bones around their heart and you chould not stab them. What this movie was about was reepers. They hunted humans AND vampires. It was a good movie but not for girls or old people. (lol)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the Daywalder is back - finally
Review: I just came back from the movie theatre. I had waited so long for this one and already it's over. What a pity. The movie sort of continues where it has stopped three years ago. A bit bloodier, a bit faster, a bit more exagerated - it is good! but not quite as good and as innovative as the first one was. there are far to many of those rippers in it and just not enough silver weapons. nevertheless this movie really gets you and sets you on fire. go and judge yourself!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Blade 2ooy!!!
Review: When Blade 2 first came out in theaters, I didn't think it was going to be a goood movie. I was right. My friends dragged me to this sad excuse for a movie in which a man (Whislter) who was brutally slaughtered in the first one, is now perfectly OK and where mutated vampires are killed by the all-famous Blade. If I wanted to see a movie where Wesley Snipes shoots mutated vampires with silver bullets I would simply watch my little brother play with his legos, although his games probably have more of a plot than this horrible freakish thing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Invasion of the Uber-Vampires
Review: What's worse than an organized underground of vampires? Answer: rogue mutant uber-vampires.

Blade is intent on finding his kidnapped mentor and freeing him from the vampiric addiction to which his abductors have enslaved him. And he plans to cut a pretty bloody path, doing it. No sooner does he succeed in that endeavor, however, than Vampire Central is all over his hangout. They want to propose a truce. Seems they and their arch-nemesis Blade now have a common enemy: a new variety of vampire, that is all but impossible to kill and voraciously hungry - it eats vampires, as well as humans - and their numbers are exponentially growing, to the point that soon they'll be impossible to stop.

I couldn't tell you whether the performances are any good or not, because there's so much action in this piece it's almost impossible to tell. But the actors are at least well-cast, and enjoy themselves. The story is strong, many of the characters quite fascinating. The ending is really terrific, and even moving.

This is more an action-adventure and zombie picture than a vampire picture, which fans of Resident Evil will gobble up with a - uh, sip with a straw(?). Well, you get the idea.


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