Doesn't live up to the original.

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2003)

The original film was a blast - good plot (for an action film), great fight scenes, cool soundtrack. This film promised to be more of the same but just fails to deliver.
The plot feels secondary to the action. The fight choreography is less polished than before, usually retreating to the major characters expending truck-loads of ammo at the shambling, zombie-like enemy. The scenes featuring the CGI stuntmen generally jar - you spot them immediately, dropping you back to the real world with a bump, saying "that looked so fake". The ranks of the uber-vampires fail to impress, rarely looking threatening except for their progenitor in his fights with Blade.
Despite the promise of the interaction between vampire hunter and vampire forced by circumstance to work together, the enmity disappears to a great extent, although the payoff of the Blade - Reinhardt dynamic does raise the game a little. Worst of all, the film ends tamely, failing to recompense the viewer for the investment of their time.
Watch the original instead.