Bite this and suck on it!

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2002)

I saw this in the movies, excited as all fudge. I loved the first one and felt it was the first superhero movie done right in years. This one looked to at least equal it's predecessor in every way imaginable. Watching this in the theater, I couldn't help but feel disappointed. Some of the fight scenes were ruined by CGI actors so obvious that it just hurt my feelings. The movie is bloody and really violent. It's really, really violent actually. People get slain in ways that defy description. Now I have no problem with that. It's just... there's just things in this movie that shouldn't have been here. All that rap/metal/techno feels really out of place, especially during the fight scenes. I feel that they should've stuck with the original score for those scenes. Watch the scene where he fights the two ninjas in his hideout. The music they use there is really good (but the scene is also a perfect example of bad CGI, cough, cough). But to have some Crystal Method's "Name of the Game" during a half-inspired whoop-ass scene leaves you tapping your finger in Space Madness style. I don't know, ever since I got the DVD for my b'day, I've learned to appreciate the movie a little more. Those Reapers are really sweet. Luke Goss makes one hell of a bad guy. This movie is never boring. The action seems to go on forever. Wesley Snipes hams it up. Ron Perlman is a hero. Leonor Varela can bite me cause I'm into that. Norman Reedus should get slapped for this but I don't think it's his fault that they gave him a crap role to work with. I really liked him in Boondock Saints, if you want more of him. The film's biggest waste was Kris Kristofferson. Blade kills a whole bunch of suckheads to free Whistler. And for what, to have Whistler throw him his sunglasses at the end? He does almost nothing in this movie. Hopefully, the third one'll be better. I'll give this one **1/2 out of ***** only because of some impressive design. Oh, Guillermo Del Toro did a really good job behind the wheel here. The movie failed but it was a noble failure. Sort of.... ugggh....