Sometimes Bad CGI Is Worse Than No CGI...

Rating: 5/10 (5 June 2005)

BLADE 2 (2+ outta 5 stars) Wesley Snipes did a good job on the first Blade movie so I have no beef with him coming back to make more of them. For this second installment the filmmakers came up with a decent story and a good bunch of actors. Unfortunately, the script could have used a little more pizazz... and they could have used a lot less phony CGI work in the fight scenes. I realize Snipes may not be a trained fighter... but replacing him with an unconvincing CGI simulation does not help the movie one bit. I think this time around Snipes came on a little too strong with his "cool" persona. Blade definitely came off as cool in the first movie... but this time he comes off more as someone desperately *pretending* to be cool. Kris Kristofferson makes a welcome return as Blade's previously deceased partner and he seems to get the better one-liners, while Blade himself is stuck with dud lines like, "Keep pushing, a**hole." Ron Perlman does a pretty good job as well, playing an uneasy ally of Blade's. They are forced to team up to destroy a special kind of vampire that feeds on other vampires and so is ultimately more dangerous to mankind. It's all fast-paced and kind of interesting but all that jumping around and blowing things up does get a little old after a while.