Brilliantly filmed, stylish, and nothing close to Hollywood.

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 1999)

Brilliantly filmed, stylish, and nothing close to Hollywood. Thus making "Blade" an excellent film. Hollywood doesn't make movies like this anymore, you got the standard bad guy-hostage-shoot-em-up-revenge with movie stars who can't act, and that's about it. But Blade is totally different. The way it combines a horror movie and a slapdash kung fu movie was totally dope. I can't describe this movie in one word, but it's definitely a film that's complicated to not like.
Finally, Wesley Snipes does not play Wesley Snipes.After the aimless, dumb, morally illicit "Money Train,"I almost lost all respect for Snipes' acting. I was barely able to tell that this was Wesley Snipes, I didn't know Deacon Frost's Vampiress was played by Traci Lords until the end credits, and Kris Kristoferson was only recognizable through his accent. The only thing I would object to this movie was Dorff's villain, who did not seem villainous nor threatening enough, but just a young, foul mouthed meglomaniac with an inferiority complex. There were some flaws in the movie, but none that were noticeable or as obvious as the turkey Money Train. Recommended for an audience with a strong stomach, Blade is quite violent, but not gratuitously. It is all stylized, however, and not graphic.
There was one perky scene in the movie, I'm not going to give it away for those who haven't seen it, but it's clearly obvious that "Java the Hut" served as an inspiration!