Last time he fought against his sworn enemies....This time he will fight with them.

Now I know I'm going to upset some people with this little review but Blade 2 was bad. Not horrendously bad, it did have some good points, but it still wasn't great.

Snipes was great, as he usually is, and Luke Goss was excellent. In fact I was pleasantly surprised at his on-screen presence. Unfortunately it was over-shadowed by Danny John-Jules being supremely awful. The man cannot act and adding this to all the other rubbish through-out the film just makes for an unimpressive sequel.

So here we have Blade, back to fight off the vampires only this time we have a new strain of vamp... Repears! Now this idea I quite like, the idea of a new strain of vampire and it made the acceptance of Drake in the third instalment (and the dogs) more acceptable. What let it down was the fact that Blade was fighting the reapers along side vampires. I know they say keep your friends close but your enemies closer but it just doesn't sit well with the character of Blade to be fighting with vampires. He should have killed them and then gone after the reapers but sadly this would have made for a film of two halves, with the first half being a basic repeat of the first Blade.

Thankfully Del Toro did a better job of directing this one than Norrington did with the first it's just a shame his casting director/manager couldn't have found more talented actors to play certain roles.

I'd like it noted that I have not once mentioned the performance and talent of Ron Perlman!

The power of an immortal. The soul of a human. The heart of a hero.

From the pulse-pounding opening sequence to the inevitably bloody conclusion, Blade has enough thrills to keep any avid action fan happy!

Eric Brooks, or Blade as he's better known, is yet another Marvel character to find his way on to the big screen, and quite deservedly so! Even if they did change the fact that he wasn't half-vampire in the comics!

Snipes, as Blade, does a wonderful job at keeping the action going while still managing to keep a comedy element but it's very evident that Stephen Norrington had only directed one other film before this. The film is great but in certain areas it tries too hard to be new wave and "interesting" with flashy cuts here and there and time-in-motion shots. Rather than add to the film those elements seem to take something away.

As good as Stephen Dorff is as Deacon Frost and as well as he fills the character his boyish charm and good looks almost outweigh his ability to be a villain. It's unfortunate that pulling faces doesn't get you anywhere when being a movie bad guy!

As a whole the trilogy is superb but splitting the films up leaves you wondering why the first one wasn't as good as the third and why they bothered with the second one at all!

'It's not over. You keep your cure. There's still a war going on, and I have a job to do. You wanna help, make me a better serum." ... and so comes the sequel!