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Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2001)

Action, Action, Action. That is what you're going to get by watching this movie, not very much horror. But when I say action, I mean the very best of action, the caviar of action! I don't know about you guys but that is definitely good enough for me. Snipes is an @$$-kicking brotha/vamp who has a mean streak when it comes to other vampires, especially Deacon Frost (portrayed well by Stephen Dorff). This movie has everything going for it. Good plot, great acting, EXCELLENT CAMERA WORK, EXCELLENT SOUNDTRACK, EXCELLENT FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY, and EXCELLENT LIGHTING!!! Did I specify that enough? The fight scenes are just plane and simple astonishing. The way they introduce us to blade is very slick, you can tell you're in for a lot of action just by the first 10 minutes of this film. The beginning was magnificent, and what most movies do is that they start out great and slowly plow downhills, Blade does not fit into that category. The movie stays on par with the trend that it's beginning sets to the most extent, which counts for a whole lot. Acting is done great by Kris Kristofferson as Blade's mentor, and newcomer N'Bushe Wright has an appealing prescense in the movie also. You will enjoy this no matter who you are. It really adds alot of technology into the whole vampire idea. Bram Stoker would be proud to be a forefather of this movie ; )