File under 'More of the same'.

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2002)

As director Del Toro himself stated in Total Film magazine 'Don't f*** with the formula!' Hence we get very little that's new in Blade II, save, perhaps, for the new (and impressive) Reaper strain of vampire.
But, if you dug the original, there's plenty more to float yer boat this go around: gallons of O.T.T gore, bone-crunching violence and Snipes's agreeably cool-as-ice, bad-ass superhero, all backed up (natch!) by that incessantly thumping techno muzak.
Del Toro is undoubtedly a greater visual stylist than Norrington, the first part's helmer, and you could argue that there's (slightly) more story, but this is still unashamedly one for the popcorn crowd and over-exciteable young men that still think lots of leather and lots of gunplay is 'Way coooooooool, dude!' But each to their own, eh?
As for the ol' Pikkadude, heck, I enjoyed it for what it was - mindless, forgettable fun - but it sure as hell ain't no Devil's Backbone.