Great action flick

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2000)

Blade was simply fun. Ignore the critique a while and just sit back to watch the movie. I wasn't expecting Wesley Snipes to go Braveheart with the humans over the terror being brought down by evil vampires. I expected good action, martial arts, and lots of it. Blade delivers as an action flick. Some of the characters maybe like cardboard, particularly Blade himself, but it's not so to hurt the movie. It doesn't become too melodramatic to a degree unlike many action movies try to do with their heroes. What you get from Snipes is a good I-can-own-your-ass-anyday performance. What more do you need? About the only negative side of the movie I can tell you right off would probably have to be its reference to vampire history. "Pure Bloods"? Vampire eccentrics will cry infamy over this novelty but that's about the worse of it.
I was disappointed at the ending though, and so the DVD version is a MUST see with the alternate ending.