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Based on the comic book of the same name, BLADE (Snipes) is a half-mortal, half-immortal bent on avenging his mother's death and destined to rid the earth of a race of vampires. Meanwhile, the modern-day technologically advanced vamps he's targeted are in pursuit of his special blood type needed to summon an evil god who plays .. Read more

Starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright
Director Stephen Norrington
Genres Action/Adventure, Horror

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Blade

Based on the comic book of the same name, BLADE (Snipes) is a half-mortal, half-immortal bent on avenging his mother's death and destined to rid the earth of a race of vampires. Meanwhile, the modern-day technologically advanced vamps he's targeted are in pursuit of his special blood type needed to summon an evil god who plays a key role in their plan to execute the human race. A dark action thriller from the director of DEATH MACHINE and the writer of THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS and DARK CITY with plenty of blood and guts.

Starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Traci Lords
Director Stephen Norrington
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 55 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Horror
Language English
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 26 Jul 1999
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Wesley Snipes plays the half-mortal, half-vampire who hunts down creatures of the night in this flashy and very violent action adventure based on the popular Marvel Comics character. Aided by gruff-and-tough Kris Kristofferson, he sets out to thwart the evil schemes of fellow vampire Stephen Dorff, whose plans include running a nightclub that will supply humans for his fiendish pals to feed on. This is daft stuff indeed, but Snipes looks great in leather, it's snappily paced and the performances are perfectly tongue in cheek.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...The battle scenes are pure comic-book derring-do replete with acrobatics borrowed from Hong Kong action thrillers and continual morphing..."

    • New York Times
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 14 out of 17 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Suprisingly Superb

    This film simply kicks ass in a way most other action films don't. Blade is super-cool as is his arch-enemy played by Stephen Dorff. There's a level of harsh violence you rarely see in today's money-maximising rating lowering movies (see Terminator 3), and the effects are of a really high quality throughout; there's a great attention to detail and you can see they really did put a lot of effort into this movie. With loads of style and action this has to be one of the premier horror thrillers of all time

      • imran from London
      • Posted 12 Aug 2004 22:15

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      • Based on the comic book of the same name, BLADE (Snipes) is a half-mortal, half-immortal bent on avenging his mother's death and destined to rid the earth of a race of vampires. Meanwhile, the modern-...