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Now I reckon the first movie version bringing the Marvel
comicbook hero on to the big screen, Blade, was ordinary
and bored me stiffer than a three-day-old corpse.
Blade 2, however, is an blood-soaked effort from Guillermo
del Toro that has excellent fight scenes, a very gory style
and one hell of a lot of excellent special effects.
Wesley Snipes again stars as Blade and his portrayal of the
part-vampire, part-human vampire killer is uber cool. He is
known to the undead as Daywalker and that's because of a serum
developed by his rescuer Whistler (Kris Kistofferson) that
dampens his urges to drink blood and allows him to go out
in the daylight.
He is also one helluva fighter and comes armed with all sorts
of wonderfully nasty vampire blitzers.
This time around, Blade is approached by his enemies to join
forces in a bid to wipe out a new breed of vampiric killers
known as Reapers. While they like a bit of human every now
and then, their main food is vampires and they are pretty
damn good when it comes to knocking them off the top of the
food chain.
To battle the Reapers the vampires have formed a crack squad
of super soldiers to exterminate and Blade is chosen by the
supreme vampire, Damaskinos, to lead it.
This doesn't go down well with the pointy-teeth whose self-styled
leader is Reinhardt, a fairly normal-looking Ron Perlman.
Also in the squad is the daughter of Damaskinos, Nyssa (Leonor
Varela) and some pretty major toughies.
So apart from watching Reinhardt at his back, Blade has to
take on the race of supermonsters in a battle for survival.
Snipes is a superbly fit Blade, Kristofferson suitably grizzled
as his father figure, Perlman is in his element with a typical,
beligerent on-screen role and Varela is cute and deadly.
The transfer is as sharp as Dracula's fangs and the sound
rocks, but the stars of the show have to be the visual effects.
They are sensational.
Forget you hated the first Blade - this is a throat
ripper!
Conclusion: 80% Extras: 80%
Continued: DVD
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