Great Character - Patchy Movie

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2006)

Blade is a quality comic book adaptation with some real visceral action and possibly the best opening sequence to any movie of this kind. I wont spoil it to much for those who haven't seen it but Blade wiping out vampires in the opening club scene is absolutely awesome. Even with the 100's of millions of dollars thrown at the likes of Spiderman, X-Men etc the effects in Blade for the most part still hold up today.
Of course the problem with a great opening sequence is can you build on that and top it come the end of the movie and unfortunately this is what holds Blade back from being a great movie. Wesley Snipes was made for the part of Blade both physically with his fight stunt work and in his brooding performance and thats what makes this film. Anyone else in the role is unthinkable. The problem comes when Blade isn't kicking a** the movie really slows down, also none of the action sequences really match that first adrenaline rush. The plot is mostly irrelevant there's something going on about a blood god but really who cares it's all about Blade looking cool and kicking vampire a**.
A quality movie for action and comic book fans that just falls short of being great 7/10