Nomak: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend or my enemy?

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2019)

Blade II isn't as much fun as the original and it has actually been toned down, other than the gore and violence.
It's slow to get going and having Whistler back is a poor choice. The look of the vampire mutations are superbly horrific, but the CGI fight scenes are even more horrific. I mean you can see it switching back and forth between computer generated and real. The plot's creative, but the dialogue isn't great and the villains not talking hurts as well. Leonor Varela as Nyssa just doesn't work, she's overly nice and too restrained to be a vampire and an assassin and to be raised by Damaskinos. There isn't a particular stand out character here, other than Blade. I originally had the sequel being superior, but after just watching both, the original's clearly the better film.