Blade 2 Details

Big Let Down

Nowhere near the quality of the first film. The effects aren't as good, the set pieces are rubbish, the baddies are scary but ultimately pointless, it is just a let down. Shame coz Blade was outstanding but I suppose it was just too much to live up to.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Come on baby, don't fear The Reapers

There are two big problems with Blade 2. Snipes is so wooden he could have played a stake and Blade dispatches vampires with such bored insouciance that he ahem, bleeds them of their terrible mystique. There’s a lot of macho posturing in this movie, all the male characters growl their lines like they could do with sucking on a lozenge. Kristofferson is the worst, but even Luke Goss is at it but if his uber-vamp had Bros, s squeaky vocal stylings it wouldn’t have worked. Only vampiress Nyysa gives us a break from the rampant testosterone and she’s only really there to give Blade a token romantic distraction.

Blade teams up with usual vampirish adversaries in order to head off the threat of a new breed of vamp “The Reapers” which attack other vamps, are immune to everything but sunlight and have some interesting eating habits. He revives Whistler with customary ease and with new sidekick Scud and a trained squad of vampires called “The Blood Pack” (Original) sets off to kick Reaper butt..

There’s a minor plot twist, lots of impressive action scenes and some sumptuous sets but the screenplay is so functional that it all passes in a blur of dribbling liquids, wobbling body parts and gleaming high tech weaponry. Characters appear and are summarily dispatched and by making "The Reapers" so mono vulnerable the conclusion is as predictable as a new dawn.