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Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2001)

I own this movie. I'm reviewing it because I've just read some erroneously nasty things about it. Hey! It's a movie, dudes! It's not a documentary on vampire lore or a Discovery Channel exposé. If anybody wants to see a BAD vampire movie, see John Carpenter's. Okay? This one's clever, slick and introduces its own history with a vampire alphabet of sorts in the form of runes, kinda, which are tattoos marking the vampires by their owners. And they also name books in a vampire "bible". Wesley Snipes just plain rocks as Blade, a mutant created by the timing of his mother's bite. In a pretty rare "Hollywood" role, Stephen Dorff is a demonic, sexy-as-hell Deacon Frost, all ripe to undo the current hierarchy of the vampire scene on the eve of the coming of the Blood God. The director's eye doesn't miss a detail. The color and symbolism are impacting and concise. It's "stylish" like early Clive Barker (who has since lost his mind). Good looking sets, clothes, lighting and action. The showdown at the end with the skeleton-people-pteradactyl-things is brilliant. I still wonder and ask you: Does Blade's dead mother, in the guise of her return, look a whole lot like Toni Braxton? Or is that just me? An interesting comparison would be Modern Vampires with Casper Van Dien. I own that one, too.
If you can bend your rules about vampires, just a bit, and except some new twists, this movie is exciting, very well made, action-packed and sexy, like vampires are supposed to be (in my opinion, although the sight of real blood makes me pass out).