Meet the New BladeNot Like the Old Blade

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2015)

Director del Toro Has No Doubt Gained a Following. He has the Talent of an Artist From Hell. The Look is Gruesome, Grotesque, Extremely Gory and Nauseating. It Seems that His Style would be a Perfect Fit for the "Blade" Series. Well, it's a Matter of Taste, So to Speak.
If You Like Your Vampire and Horror Movies Ultra-Gory and Disgustingly Wretched than He's Your Man. That's Exactly what This Thing Is. Wesley Snipes Returns as the Vampire Vampire Hunter, but in This One He Teams Up with a Squad of "Suck Heads" because there is Something Threatening the Vampires and by Un-Natural Selection will Target Humans Too.
These "New Kids on the Block" are Harder to Kill and Make Vampires Look Like Sissies. The Director Seems to Wallow in the Well of Wanting More Gore, More Often, and More Sickening with Each Passing Scene. It All Becomes Rather Routine After a While and there is Just So Much Nastiness a Viewer Can Take Before One Becomes Anesthetized.
The Martial Arts Scenes are Many, but the CGI is Rearing its Ugly Head Frequently. In 2002 They Had Not Quite Got it Right and Some Scenes Look a Bit Cartoonish. But the Makeup and the "Real" SFX are Impressive.
Overall, its a Different Movie, Mostly, from the First Blade, it Wears its Changes Loudly and Proudly. Some Fans of the First One Might be Disappointed, but it Will Obviously Gain the Gore Crowd and Fangoria Types will be Touting and Shouting.
The Movie Almost, but Not Quite, Loses Touch with the Source Material, or Perhaps Not So Much Loses Touch but Gives it an Extreme, Excessive, Embellishment. For Better or Worse. You Decide.