Entertaining but forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2000)

When I started watching this movie, I didn't expect a lot from it. Finally, I was (more or less) pleasantly surprised. I think that this movie's best quality is its "honesty" if I may say so: it doesn't pretend to be a masterpiece or anything else than what it actually is, i.e. entertaining. The plot is quite weak but the movie is fast, the dark atmosphere pretty well rendered, the fight scenes well done. In a nutshell, you don't get bored (even if the movie is slightly too long). On the other hand, Blade is not a film that I could watch over and over again: even if it is entertaining, there is nothing exceptional or unforgettable about it. In conclusion, a rather good action flick, nothing less... but nothing more.