blade - a work of art

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 1999)

blade kicks azz. Norrington has done a great job and has pulled off the most refreshing addition to the action genre is years (though i have yet to see "the matrix"). The thing blade has is style, bags of it. The director combines great cinematography sound effects and music to give an excellent sense of atmosphere. For once someone has used fast cutting to good effect and not made scenes confusing a la Michael Bay. Of the few flaws is the short fight with frost which has an excellent build up but should have lasted 5 minutes more and should have given frost a more imposing form, after all he supposed to be a god! But just the majesty of the opening action sequence more than makes up for this.