Awful, pretentious and silly

Rating: 2/10 (24 December 2002)

Having rented Blade II, me and my friend both agreed after it was over: This was bloody awful! I had rather high expectations upon renting the movie, I was certainly in the mood for an action movie - but after watching Blade II, the need for action was no more there.
A truly awful movie, which reminded me more of a videogame than a serious movie. The musical score immediately made me associate to XBOX games like Splinter Cell, and the feeling of the movie was just the same. Exagerrated special effects, high-tempo hand-to-hand combat and all that jazz. Impressive? Nope. The computer effects might have been fancy looking for some, but to me they just looked silly. Too many computer-animated scenes. And the fights? My god, talk about overkill. Sure, fighting scenes can be really entertaining from time to time, but in this movie.. my God, they were so over-elaborated that they simply stunk.
Wesley Snipes is no great actor, and he knows it. However, it easily becomes a bit ridiculous when all he does is drop one-liners and try to look cool in his sunglasses. If I want that kind of stuff, I'll much rather go rent a Schwartzenegger movie. Thank you.