not very good

Rating: 4/10 (3 April 2002)

Went to see Blade 2 last night. It was average. It seems that most of the reasons why I liked the first film - brainless action, not much plot etc - were the exact same reasons why I didn't really like the sequel. The first 20 minutes or so were good. The Vampire Ninjas were ace. And Luke Goss was awesome as the main baddie. But apart from that it was just generally a bit poor. The middle section in particular was just plain boring.
Like the reason people loved the martial arts in say, Crouching Tiger., was cause you could SEE what was going on. Blade 2 is full of stupid jump cuts and post-Matrix slow motion, so you end up not having a clue what's going on.
And I hate the way in films like this when the good guys have to team up with the bad guys, the bad guys suddenly stop doing whatever it was that made them bad in the first place. I mean the 'Bloodpack', did they even bite anyone at all? No sir. They just beat people up all the time - totally at odds with all the other vampires in this film. They're supposed to be VAMPIRES, yet they don't come across like that at all. They didn't even have pointy teeth half the time. They were like some half arsed 'Dirty Dozen' or worse still the outlaws from Alien Resurrection - the tough one, the mouthy one, the girl, the leader etc - all bickering and posturing with the 'good guy' (Blade).
Then they went down in the sewers with their special armour on and it all got a bit too 'Aliens' for me. Don't bother with this. Watch the first one instead.