3 1/2 stars Roger Ebert?

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2002)

If you like watching someone play doom for two hours this is the movie for you. The movie started out with Wesley Snipes killing vampires and continued all the way through to the end with little interruptions for some plot and dialog. I have better plots on my video games and the characters monolog comes really close to that in Blade 2. In the first part of the movie, it became known that silver bullets couldnt harm these creatures, but they continued to use these really cool guns that had no effect. I guess it wouldnt have too exciting if Blade carried around a flash light. For the cliche ending where the bad guy and the good guy battle it out, they decide to beat each other to death, since 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and silver stakes that fired at the rate of 6000 fpms didnt seem to work. Whats up with these fight scenes where half the action is one giant blur. When I got up from my seat and looked around at the end of the movie I got the impression everyone in the whole theater felt the way I did, like we all just sat through 2 hours of watching someone playing a video game. On the plus side, the movie had good props and it looked good. ROGER EBERT gave this film 3 1/2 stars and it doesnt even come close to other movies he gave 3 1/2 stars to, Back To The Future, Braveheart just to name a couple. I know the rating system is objective, but its still a really high rating for a film with very little substanance.