Ron Perlman is god! Better than the first, terrific direction.

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2002)

If nothing else, it is easy to say Blade II surpasses its predecessor in every way. Guillermo del Toro is a director of unique vision, one who obviously put pride into this work, instead of treating it like a paycheck job. Sure, there's bad CG here and there, and Donnie Yen was a waste (though he did choreograph the fights too), but what you have here is a solid chunk of entertainment, with well-planned (and more importantly, WELL-EDITED!) fights abounding, no great lulls in the action, and a satisfying ending. It's amazing they were able to write Whistler back in without it being too ridiculous, and then not wasting his return! Ron Perlman walks all over his scenes, I really hope del Toro can convince the studio to let him be Hellboy instead of Vin Diesel. Just all-in-all good stuff, another great action film with a plot that actually MATTERS!