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!
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2007-11-19 @ 19:44