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!
2007-11-10 @ 22:12