No more than a mediocre vampire movie

Rating: 3/10 (28 February 2004)

"Blade" can be summed up in two words: vampire movie. It offers nothing to the audience, except a gory display of unnecessary quantities of blood. As intriguing as the plot may seem, it only comes into play in the last ten minutes of the movie's two-hour length, and even then it lacks the simple element of surprise, which even "Interview With A Vampire" was able to offer. The acting talents could really have been pushed, especially on part of Snipes, whose 'I-have-feelings-very-deep-down' attitude was undesirable at times. Perhaps the two things, which save this movie from meriting a one on a ten-point scale, are the editing (which added a creepy effect at times) and the twenty seconds of a mildly amusing swordfight towards the end. "Blade" merits no more than 3/10