Blade was a game changer

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2014)

Bryan Singer's 'X-Men' (2000) is often credited with closing the door on the campy comic book movie era epitomized by Joel Schumacher's 'Batman and Robin' (1997), but it was really Stephen Norrington's 'Blade' that set the tone for the more serious approach that was to come. It also helped to introduce the kind of stylized action that would almost become cliché after the release of 'The Matrix' a few years later.
Though there is a decidedly 90s zeitgeist to it all, 'Blade' is a stylish, well-made take on the whole vampire mythos that holds up surprisingly well sixteen years later.