Well.........

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2007)

.........I don't really know what to make of this. I usually like vampire movies, and I wouldn't say "Blade" is a complete waste of time. It just isn't great. It lacks the eerie feeling you get from watching Coppola's Dracula, and it lacks the charm of for example "The Lost Boys". That aside, "Blade" is mildly entertaining, but there are some major flaws - at least in my eyes. First of all, I have a major problem with the whole "pure blood vs. unpure blood- thing". Vampires are not born. They are transformed. They are damned creatures. Just like in "Dracula". Period. End of discussion! Second: Why is Blade able to walk around in the streets without anybody giving him a second glance? A big black guy with sunglasses, a very visible sword strapped to his back and an outfit that would make Batman jealous.... and nobody seems to notice that the same Blade beats up a police officer in the street in the middle of the day! People don't react until Blade has a gigantic gun in his hands! Come on.... And what about Frost throwing that little girl across the street and through some sort of glass object? She doesn't have a scratch afterwards?!?! That's nothing but a miracle! And Blade just tells her to go home - alone! She has just been at the mercy of a vampire, she looked very scared, she was thrown across the street, and the hero just tells her to go home. What a hero! And the final scene in which Blade defeats the blood god a ka Frost... that's just too easy! I mean it's a god he is battling here! A he defeats it with garlic essence! In conclusion: Mildly entertaining, but too many flaws to be a great vampire flick.