Has its moments, but tries too hard to remain a comic book.

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2005)

Not actually a bad movie by any means, but disliked the stylized, over-posed aspect of the Blade character. A friend of mine pointed out that as it began as a comic, perhaps this was simply one method of remaining true to the original medium. Whatever, it doesn't translate well (assuming this was even what was being attempted; this was made in the same era as the Matrix and Crouching Tiger).
Apart from that, the villains make all too many classic villain mistakes-
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BTW: Not by any means anti-Snipes, like him in other things, just not this. Kris Kristofferson rocks tho, have to say.