Decent for a modern vampire film **

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2004)

Much to the movie's advantage, Wesley Snipes plays it fairly straight and serious as a half-man/half-vampire slayer, based loosely on a character from Marvel Comics. Kris Kristofferson is impressively quite well-cast as his mentor, and the same goes for Stephen Dorff as the lead villain.
This is dark, solid action (a la BATMAN '89) with decent performances; unfortunately, there are also too many needless obscenities from the vampires' mouthes and those typically artificial '90s computer effects which become cumbersome liabilities and prevent this from being as good as it might otherwise have been.