Non-Stop Fun

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2004)

Let me preface this comment by stating that aside from the opening blood shower, I really couldn't stand the first Blade. Not that the film was so bad, I just was not interested in it at all, maybe it was Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff that turned me off, or the pedestrian like fight scenes, I have still yet to see the end of the movie. Why did I even watch Blade II, you ask? One reason, Guilermo Del Toro. I love his films and that extra umphh he puts into familiar stories, I knew that he would do something different with the same old Blade, and he did. This film is so much fun, from super realistic fight scenes to great pussy gaping vampire hybrids, yeah there are plot holes but this is a comic book put on screen and in my opinion it is one of the best, and you know its the little things, WWE moves choreographed into climatic fight scenes, Ron Perlman, throw away lines that deliver, a great villain and a plentitude of viscera.
The other great thing about Blade II is the pacing, this flick moves like a bull through a china shop and never lets up. Yeah you know there are references to Aliens, to Del Toro's own Mimic, Lines from The Godfather, lapses in CGI rendering and some pretty bad dialogue but its all forgiven because this flick is a blast. Even Snipes fares better as the Rock would say "He knows his role" just be a bad ass vampire killer. Despite loving Blade II, I still won't watch the end of Blade though.