The Double Dragon Factor

Rating: 2/10 (11 September 1999)

Remember the old Video/Computer-Game Double Dragon? I had to think back to this game when I saw Blade. Super-cool hero walks on screen, two super-evil bad guys do the same, followed by a super-ridiculous Kung-Fu fight. The enemies are knocked out, hero walks two meters and the scene is replayed. Finally, the difference between Double Dragon and Blade is that you could actually PLAY Double Dragon, so it carried with it a remarkable amount of fun. Just LOOKING at it for two hours leaves me unsatisfied.
Blade is really one of the worst movies I have ever had the displeasure to watch. I am a fan of Vampire stories and the myths that surround them, and I regard this waste of celluloid as an insult for every vampire fan. To the makers: Vampire myths and wannabe-cool-MTV-HipHop-sunglass-commercials DO NOT mix.
I still wish I had bought two packs of cigarettes and a cup of coffee instead of the cinema ticket, but hey, what´s done is done. And if I now give the movie a final rating of 2/10, it has two reasons: the atmospheric opening sequence and the fact that Blade finally made me carve out my dusted copy of the good, old Double Dragon again. I forgot how cool the game was...