Stop thinking and eat your popcorn!

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 1998)

The first, oh, 70 minutes of Blade are what an action movie (and a comic book movie) should be. The action sequences are well-choreographed, without the now-popular editing that makes it impossible to tell what's going on. The special effects don't diminish from the fighting. And little touches like blood raining from a sprinkler system let you know you 're in a very strange world. The last ten minutes of Blade are perhaps the strangest reversal in the history of film. I don't want to give it away, but the villain goes through what will happen in great detail, and then it happens in a fashion completely different, which is unexplained. It's like they decided to change the movie without telling us why. Still, the final scenes do offer the most enervating sword-fight I've ever seen. All in all, this is a cool movie. Not a smart movie, not a movie that, ultimately, makes much sense, but a cool movie. With some damn good techno, if I might add. Go see it, but put your brain in neutral.