if you're in the mood

Rating: Null/10 (8 October 2008)

i hate protagonists and villains that do flips and kung fu while wearing shiny black leather. i also almost always hate vampires, they're usually pretentious and smarmy. incidentally, this movie doesn't have any moments that are overtly offensive or stupid. so, if you're in the mood for a pointless entertaining action picture, blade can deliver without turning you off too much.
it has better character development than the other three blade flicks. take quinn, for example, the most annoying character in the whole world. he's loud, hip, ugly, and full of lame lines. it's gratifying to see him get profusely abused by blade. quinn gets knocked around left and right, set on fire, both arms cut off, and his face shoved against the side of a speeding train just to name a few.
anyway, there are a couple flukes in the story that i can't get over. for example, at the beginning, blade stops in a shop, talks to some guy about how his serum isn't working. the guy in the shop says "yeah i had a feeling that would happen." they do some brotherly fist pound and say their goodbyes. you never see this guy from the shop ever again, even in the sequels. in fact, in blade 3, whistler (blade's father figure) mentions that when he dies, blade will be all alone in a world full of enemies.
also, i don't get why blade has to take serum for his blood lust. why doesn't he just rob a blood bank or maybe even whistler could donate a small amount of blood every now and then. does he have some principal against drinking any kind of blood? or maybe drinking blood would turn him evil... i dunno, maybe the comic explains it. also another thing that bothers me about every vampire movie, is they always say "this part of the myth isn't true but this part is." blade says "crosses and holy water don't do dick" but garlic and stakes through the heart work. also silver. most movies ignore the garlic myth, though, so it's neat to see a serious vampire movie where garlic blows them up.