How to spoil a good thing.

Rating: 3/10 (17 April 2002)

Blade was cool. Blade was made with a lot of talent and a little money, came out stylish, moody and original. Blade II was made with a lot of money and no talent. They've completely, mercilessly destroyed, spoiled a very good thing in a desperate need to cash in, to up profit margins. It makes me sick, makes me very sad. I really want to cry over this. A sequel was cried out, could have been so good. Instead, we get a load of trite, vacuous, rubbish. some of the sequences are quite good, but the whole thing feels like a tired, talentless, unoriginal action sequnce, scripted by the numbers. Slick, supercool badies are replaced by meaningless monsters, an original view of vampire-land given the Buffy The Vampire treatment. Moody visuals and tight scripting are given over to meaningless special effects and Hollywood cliches. An edgy soundtrack is replaced by... nothing at all. Why? Oh, why?