Doesn't live up to the first film

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2002)

Blade II is pretty much what you might expect.
Packed with action from top to bottom, lots of juicy CG/makeup FX and more one liners than you can shake a crucifix at.
So why did it disappoint me?
Well, I was probably expecting too much...considering how good the first Blade was....but the truth is a little more basic.
Too much of a good thing (ie: kung fu action, CG FX) does not a good movie make. After about the fifth Matrix-style, video-game inspired, rap-scored beat down, I had to keep myself from yawning too obviously.
Too bad...the premise of Blade hooking up with other vampires to take out a new bloodsucking mutation could have been decent premise (for a B movie)....if it hadn't have been written to salve the minds of PS2 junkies.
Not that there aren't a few bright moments. The film looks great and throws in the occasional original visual punch that made its predecessor so much fun.
And of course, Wesley Snipes is all that....and a bag of chips.