One of the best Vampire Movies, though it has it's problems...

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2000)

This has to be one of the best, if not THE best vampire movie I've ever seen. Don't let that trick you, I hate vampire movies. Many of them have potential, but never get past the horror movie image. I'll get straight to the good and the bad.
Happy Premise Number 1: the action. Wow! Man, this rivals the Matrix! The action in this movie is well choreographed, and it, well, is pretty cool. I think that even middle-aged people can like this movie for the action, because, man, it's good. There is this scene early in the movie where Blade jumps from one building to another, and, while it isn't like the Matrix, it still is pretty cool.
Happy Premise Number 2: the climatic sword fight. I decided to keep this separate from HP number 1 because this is the best part of the movie. Basically, it's a sword fight between the good guy and the bad guy. It is so well done. I loved it.
Happy Premise Number 3: the vampires. Normally, Vampires are portrayed in movies in two different ways. One: They are like Dracula. They're seductive, sexy, and extremely good looking. Two: Total monsters. Sometimes they're more like zombies than vampires. Blade does not portray vampires in any of these ways. It shows vampires in a more realistic fashion. They aren't sexy, in fact they are often disgusting. But, they act very, normal. They don't act like monsters. They act, well, the way you would act if you had big teeth and a lust for blood. Seriously, if vampires actually existed, this is what it would probably be like.
Happy Premise Number 4: the characters. The characters of Blade and Deacon Frost are two of my favorite characters, mainly because they are well developed and are interesting. The other characters are developed well, but Blade and Frost are the best. I mean everything about these guys is cool. Even their names: Blade... Frost.. It's just cool.
Happy Premise Number 5: Wesley Snipes. This man rivals Arnold and Stalone in the action hero category. What makes him better is that he can act! Arnold, while I do like him, can't act like Snipes, nor will he ever be able to. As for Stalone, he can't act at all, so let's just move on.

Happy Premise Number 6: This is reserved for people who have seen the movie. Remember that seen in the park with Blade and Frost? It has this really cool bullet time thing. Seeing how this came before the Matrix, I'm rather surprised. That is a really cool scene.
Time for the bad stuff.
Depressing Premise Number 1: the cg effects. You would think in today's CG filled world, that this movie could, and should have had decent computer generated effects. Well it doesn't. It fact, it's really bad. Depressingly bad, I.E. Depressing Premise Number 1.
Depressing Premise Number 2: EA 1101 or whatever it is called. It's this drug that, when injected into vampires, reacts with their blood and kills them. That's a cool idea, except that after the drug is shot in, they explode. I'm not kidding, they explode from the inside. If you have a nasty, gruesome picture in your head right about now, it's worse in the movie. I think that it was unnecessary to have that much blood. It's pretty sick. And gore usually doesn't effect me, so if you're sensitive to it, this may not be your movie.
Depressing Premise Number 3: the movie can be rather depressing. There is basically no uplifting stuff in this movie. I honestly don't care, but some people do, so I thought I would mention it.
Depressing Premise Number 4: There is this Vampire who is really fat. I'm talking Jaba the Hut fat... only more disgusting. I think it's a little too much for the film and should have been cut out. Does that really need to be in there? I say: no.
Conclusion: Blade is just a cool movie. If you can handle blood, you can handle this movie. There is so much cool stuff in this movie. The acting is cool, the characters are cool, the action, the premise, the direction, the images, everything, (with the exception of the few things I mentioned above) is cool. I'm not a horror movie person, but this really isn't a horror movie. It's not trying to scare you. It's trying to, well, be cool. And, in my opinion, it is. It isn't great, but it's most defiantly worth a rent, if not a buy.
7/10