Blade II

Plot synopsis:
NOTE: Sequel to Blade (1998).Prologue: At the Parizska Blood Bank in Prague, Czech Republic, Jared
Nomak [Luke Goss] has come to donate blood. As he is being led into the donation room,
he is informed that his blood is of a rare phenotype. Bad news for Jared;
good news for the blood bank, the phlebotomist says and bares his vampire
fangs. Jared laughs hysterically. Suddenly, his chin cracks open revealing
a gaping maw with a barbed tongue. He pounces on the phlebotomist's neck,
and blood flies everywhere.Two years have passed since Blade's mentor, Abraham Whistler, shot
himself, after being brutally beaten and bitten by vampires. When Blade [Wesley Snipes]
learned that the vampires were keeping Whistler alive, he followed their
trail through Eastern Europe--first to Moscow, then to Romania, and now to
the Czech Republic. When Blade discovers that the vampires are keeping
Whistler in stasis in a halfway house, he breaks into the house and
rescues him, after killing a number of vampires with silver stakes and
bullets made of silver nitrate and garlic extract. One accelerated
retrovirus detox shot later, and Whistler [Kris Kristofferson] is back among the living.Much has happened in the last two years. Blade has taken on a new
assistant named Scud [Norman Reedus] who doesn't get along very well with Whistler, now
that he's returned. The High Council of Vampires has created a group of
six warriors, referred to as the Bloodpack, who are being trained to fight
against Blade. However, a vampire virus called the Reaper Strain has
mutated in Jared Nomak who passes the virus to everyone he bites. Since
the Reaper virus makes carriers extremely voracious, Nomak (and each of
his victims) need to feed daily, and they feed on both humans and
vampires. The numbers of Reapers, noticeable because they resemble nosferatu with their bald, blue-veined heads and pointy ears, are increasing exponentially, and the
vampires fear the Reapers will first wipe them out then start on humans. Soon...
you do the math.Now that the Reapers are presenting an even bigger threat to the
vampires than Blade ever did, Vampire Overlord Eli Damaskinos [Thomas Kretschmann] has sent a
message to Blade, requesting a truce and asking him to join with the
vampires and actually lead the Bloodpack against the Reapers. Blade
agrees, but the Bloodpack--Lighthammer, Verlaine, Priest, Snowman, Chupa,
and Reinhardt--are not happy being led by the Daywalker they were training
to kill. To assure their cooperation, Blade plants a silver nitrate bomb,
courtesy of Scud, on the back of Reinhardt's [Ron Perlman] head. Blade holds the
detonator, and it is set to explode should anyone tamper with it.Accompanied by the vampires Asad [Danny John-Jules] and Nyssa [Leonor Varela],
daughter of Overlord Damaskinos, Blade and his Bloodpack begin their search for Nomak by
staking out places where vampires congregate, such as blood banks and safe
houses, figuring these places will also be attractive to the Reapers.
First on the list is the House of Pain, an old hotel converted into a
safehouse sheltering some 200-300 "suckheads," all dancing and feeding. As
the Bloodpack searches the building, Reapers begin emerging from the
subbasement. About 1/2 hour before dawn, the Reapers attack. The Bloodpack
manages to take out several Reapers with ultraviolet guns, but Nomak gets
away, even after being injected with the anticoagulant EDTA, and a Reaper
bites Priest, requiring that Priest be destroyed in the rising sun.
Lighthammer also gets bitten, but he hides it. In this first battle with
the Reapers, Blade learns that Reapers are impervious to silver, EDTA, and
garlic, and they rapidly bounce back from almost any wound, including
silver stakes thrust into their chests. How in the world can these
creatures be stopped, and whose side should Blade be on anyway,
considering that both Blade and Nomak are enemies of the vampires?Meanwhile, back at the High Council, Damaskinos' lawyer, Karel
Kounen, has informed Damaskinos of Priest's death and warns the Overlord
that he is playing a dangerous game, one that could result in his
daughter's death. Damaskinos informs Kounen that his "friend inside" says
that everything is going as planned. Friend inside? Who could that be? One
of the Bloodpack? Nyssa? Whistler?Outside the House of Pain, Scud and Whistler, who have been working
surveillance from the van and on the roof, have managed to capture a
Reaper who was trying to escape down a manhole into the sewers but got
stuck. For some odd reason, this Reaper is dying. Blade surmises that the
Reaper's body, having gone several hours without feeding, is beginning to
feed on itself. Since he is dying anyway, this provides Nyssa with an
opportunity to perform an autopsy and learn more about the Reapers. She
learns that the barbed tongue contains a nerve toxin to paralyze the
victim while the Reaper feeds. Their hearts are encased in bone, making it
virtually impossible to shove a stake through them. The only thing that
seems to affect them is exposure to sun and to ultraviolet light.
Unfortunately, these are also deadly to vampires, which is going to make
it difficult for Blade to destroy the Reapers without harming his vampire
allies.Scud spends the rest of the night working to build UV grenades out of
phosphor rods. The next morning, meaning to use daytime, the only
advantage they have over the Reapers, Blade, Whistler, Nyssa, Asam, and
the Bloodpack, armed with UV guns, UV grenades, and large-scale UV bombs
go down into the sewers. They split into three units. Whistler goes with
Chupa and Reinhardt down the east tunnel. Lighthammer, Verlaine, and
Snowman go in the opposite direction, and Blade goes with Asam and Nyssa.
Unfortunately, treachery abounds. When Chupa and Reinhardt get Whistler
alone, Chupa beats him up. We lose a partner and Blade loses one, Chupa
threatens. Lighthammer completes his evolution into a Reaper and feasts on
Snowman, then goes after Verlaine, who has no recourse other than to open
a manhole cover, killing both herself and Lighthammer in the sunlight.Then the Reapers start arriving, crawling on the sewer floor, walls,
and ceiling. Asam is attacked by a half dozen Reapers crawling underwater.
Blade sets off a UV grenade, killing all the Reapers, but it is too late
for Asam. Chupa falls prey to Reapers. Reinhardt is being followed by
Reapers, so he sets a UV bomb, but the detonator sticks. Blade radios
orders to everyone to regroup, but the only ones left standing are Nyssa,
Reinhardt, and Blade, so Blade goes back to get the UV bomb that Reinhardt
left behind. Only after Blade has found the bomb and is surrounded by
dozens of hungry Reapers does Reinhardt radio Blade to inform him that the
denotator doesn't work. Holding off Reapers with both hands, Blade kicks
at the lever until it finally gives. Ten seconds later, UV light floods
the tunnels. It fries the Reapers, but it also hits Nyssa and Reinhardt.Where is Whistler? Whistler has met up with Nomak who, instead of
attacking him, has given Whistler a ring and told him to tell Blade the
truth, which Nomak whispers in Whistler's ear.Meanwhile, Blade has caught up with Nyssa to find her severely burned
by the UV bomb and badly in need of blood, so he cuts his wrist and makes
her drink his blood. Suddenly, Blade is shot in the back with stunguns.
Kounen and Reinhardt step in. Vampires from the Council round up Whistler,
Nyssa, and Blade and deliver them to Damaskinos.When Nyssa regains consciousness, she is back in her father's study.
She tells him how Blade saved her life and asks whether he is still alive.
Oh, Blade's alive alright. He, Scud, and Whistler are being held in a
chamber deep in Damaskinos' sanctuary. Just as Whistler begins to tell
Nomak's "truth" to Blade--that the Reaper virus didn't evolve, it was
genetically designed--Damaskinos, Nyssa, and Reinhardt enter the chamber.
Damaskinos explains that he has been searching for a way to rid the
vampires of their hereditary weaknesses by recombining DNA. As he talks,
he shows Blade a cylinder filled with hundreds of small fetal vampires.
Nomak was first, Damaskinos says, but Nomak was a failure in that he isn't
immune to light. Soon, however, Damaskinos thinks he will have created a
new pure race of daywalking vampires, immune to silver and sunlight. All
he needs is to figure out why Blade is immune to light and then program
that quality into his fetal vampires.Whistler tosses Nomak's ring at Damaskinos' feet. Nyssa recognizes it
immediately as the Damaskinos family crest. Turns out that Nomak is
Damaskinos' son, Nyssa's brother! She storms out, followed by her father.
Reinhardt takes this chance to beat up on Blade, but Blade pulls out the
detonator to the UV bomb on the back of Reinhardt's head. He presses the
detonator button, but nothing happens. Scud laughs. I designed the bomb to
be a dud, Scud explains as Reinhardt pulls it off his head and tosses it
to Scud. Scud then tells Blade how he's been Damaskinos' familiar all
along. What do you think of that, Scud asks Blade. Two things, says Blade.
One, I've known about you all along and, two, the bomb isn't a dud. Blade
then presses a second button. Goodbye Scud.Blade is then repeatedly stun-gunned and taken to an operating room
where Kounen drives spikes through Blade's body in order to secure him.
Kounen explains that he is going to harvest Blade's blood and body parts
in order to search for the key to what makes him a Daywalker. However,
Whistler manages to get out of his handcuffs, knock out Reinhardt, and
escape through the floor ducts to the operating room. He shoots Kounen,
and releases Blade. Blade is drained of blood and severely weakened, so
Whistler carries him into a bloodbath where Blade quickly regenerates. The
first thing Blade does after leaving the bloodbath is to take out two or
three dozen guards. Next, he slices Reinhardt in half from head to toe.
Then he's off to find Damaskinos while Whistler destroys the fetal
vampires.Meanwhile, Nyssa is having it out with her father. She feels totally
betrayed because Damaskinos sent her and her Bloodpack out, expecting them
to die. He used both of his children, her and Nomak, for his own purposes,
and he used Blade, too. Blade, her supposed enemy, saved her life. As she
debates where her loyalties lie, Nomak has succeeded in invading the inner
sanctum where Nyssa has sealed herself and Damaskinos. Damaskinos attempts
to apologize to his son for all that has befallen him, but Nomak bites his
father's neck anyway. As Damaskinos lay dying on the floor, his
bluish-green blood spilling out, Nyssa takes off her family ring and
tosses it in her father's blood. Nyssa then offers herself to Nomak who
dives into her neck, too.Enter Blade. A drawn out fight ensues between Blade and Nomak until
Blade manages to thrust his sword through Nomak's side, the one place
where his heart is unprotected by bone. Nomak seems almost happy and, in
fact, thrusts the blade in further, and his body disintegrates. Poor Nyssa
has been bitten and can already feel her body changing into that of a
Reaper. I want to die while I'm still a vampire, she tells Blade. I want
to see the sun. Blade carries her outside. Together, they watch the
sunrise before Nyssa burns up in Blade's arms.In the end Blade disposes of Rush, the vampire he had left alive in the beginning of the movie, at the vampires' half-way house.

Tags: gothic, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, revenge

Review:
Because Wesley Snipes knows all those martial arts, they are nice to look at, and since it is 2002 we now got in to the phase, where the fights scenes are awesome and the choreographer says something once heavy handed, you will see bloody violence right away when the character turns in to an CGI model and it is shown trough whole movie, you can really see that, specially old dude drops kicks, kicks Blade right in the face and goes in to an CGI character, you can kind a see that, kind a weak, but does it track down from the movie?
The effects in this movie is pretty good too, besides the fight scenes when they turn the CGI character however, but that's okay I can kind a forget about it because Spider-Man (2002) come out the same year, of course they also did do the same thing, yea, I guess you have to live, with that back than, I'm pretty sure they can do better now this days.
Without the doubt, the acting in this movie is awesome, Effects are awesome, Action is awesome, story is awesome, Cinematography it is kinda even a bad ass, you actually feel bad for one of the characters, tough she was cute, I am just saying.
In the end of the day Blade II is one of the best sequel ever, you have to watch this movie!!!!!
The sword-wielding warrior Blade (Wesley Snipes - "Demolition Man," "White Men Can't Jump") returns to fight the Reapers, a new race of super vampires hell-bent on annihilating all other vampires before destroying the entire human race.
and warns anyone who can't stand Hong Kong action scenes that they are probably watching the wrong screen.The movie is essentially a platform for Snipes to have fun with his most renowned character.
The impact of all the blood and guts is reduced by the obvious fantasy of the fights (wires and SFX a lot of the time), but its still pretty powerful.The lead performances are all very good, although some of the peripheral characters are a little too hammer horror.
and there is occasionally that urge to shout "when will I be famous." and the pure blood female vampire who takes a shine to blade is well worth being bitten by.Overall it feels less like a sequel and more like a stand alone movie.
Blade 2 takes what made the first Blade film good and transforms it into a different country with different characters (outside of Blade and Whistler) and a possibly deeper feel, and it works without going into the bad sequel range.This time, the vampires Blade (Wesley Snipes) has been hunting down for so many years want to make a truce so that he can help them kill a new breed of monsters called reapers, which if you want a brief description are creatures that look like half vampires half zombies and half, whatever, with a chin that opens up a big damn mouth that before attacking it's prey could resemble a mini-sarlac pit (star wars reference).
Well, to spin a long (actually not that long or terribly complicated) story, Blade is...Sorry I cannot say anymore or I might give away too much of the plot - and you know movies like this are plot-driven.
The action scenes were amazing, and though it looked like Blade was gonna get all sappy towards the vampires - (especially the girl), he still kicked ass.
Goyer is much sillier.This bloody punch-fest lacks the charming antagonists that livened the original movie.If only as much time was spent on the script as was spent on the fight choreography.Take away everything that was original about BLADE, add some exploding vampires, and vampire night at the WWF - you get BLADE II, a knock-off, rip-off waste of film, released to suck the blood and money out of audiences everywhere.Just never seems very convinced of itself that a sequel was even necessary.This second instalment in the trilogy tries to crank things up even more than in the action packed original, which makes for an obnoxiously hyper active movie.Isn't as sharp as the original,Despite some visual virtues, Blade II just doesn't cut it.The fast-paced action is unnervingly fast, almost dizzying.
The story is thin, the plot is predictable, but Wesley Snipes carries this comic book character off with enough clever humour and self-indulgent pathos to carry it off.There are plot twists and inventive fight scenes galore, but what director Guillermo Del Toro loves most is the gore.Blade II is almost excessively violent OK, it is excessively violent but that's exactly what Snipes and Blade fans want.
I thought the person who was looking like he was having the most fun was Ron Perlman who was great in his villainous role with his chemistry with Blade being really good.
Blade II is an exciting action film that takes the tired vampire story and adds a new twist by introducing an entirely new villain.
The question of whether or not the writers were justified in introducing these new characters is, in my opinion, satisfied by the fact that they made such quality villains that fit so well into the genre.I am thrilled to see that they didn't just make another dumb Blade film that was exactly the same as the original except for the possibility of some new special effects, because these new characters, called Reapers, are exactly what the film series, as well as, potentially, the genre as a whole, needed.
This is in itself one of the better parts of the movie, because even though I was enormously unimpressed with the original film, there is no one that could play this character as well as Snipes does.
There is also an interesting conflict introduced as Blade is forced to team up with the vampires, his mortal enemies who we are to assume could turn on him at any time, in order to fight the Reapers (by far the more dangerous enemy), who reproduce,' you might say, at an astonishing rate.
Blade is attacked one night by two vampires wearing body suits (and some goggles that probably retain the coolest effect of the entire film), they fight violently for several minutes at full speed without rest, until one of them suddenly kneels before Blade and asks for a truce, informing him that there is now something on the streets that is even worse than him.
There is, of course, some stuff here that was thrown in without apparent reason and therefore without beneficial affect (such as the unnecessary, however impressive, fight scene between Blade and the two vampires early in the film), but as a whole the film rises high above its predecessor.
The fact that the original film ends with Blade becoming a worldly vampire-hunter is mostly ignored in this film, although this one does end with a similar bit of comic relief and may even leave room for a second sequel.
Not great by any stretch of the imagination, but nevertheless enjoyable.Blade 2 is not.No wonder the movie is about vampires, you can tell because it really sucks.
So lets expose something of the movie-making frailty that Blade 2 embodies....Pretty much any scene, by itself captures something of the essence of the first film (and tortures it).
It's as if the film was written by about 7 different script-writers, kept in separate rooms, and not allowed to communicate with each other.Plot-developments and devices used in one scene, are not carried over to the next, exposing poor continuity and one begins to see the movie for what it actually is: A series of disconnected fight scenes which begin to look more and more like a particularly violent hour on MTV.The film has one redeeming feature which I was quite surprised to discover: Luke Goss played his part superbly, stealing each scene, and making Blade look like a lunk.
Blade is the little boy's fantasy come true, and it scratched the itch I got from watching pretentious-PG-13-for-little-Goths-wannabes-posing-as-dark-movie-Queen-of-th e-Damned by mutilating the bodies of Satanicly twist-minded vampires, and turning them into BME poster children.
Wesley Snipes has a great performance in this film, as the kick butt vampire/human blade and does an excellent job with the character.
They hunt down vampires and turn them into their own kind, plus they are almost as invulnerable as Blade himself.Blade has to lead the blood pack, a group of vampires trained to hunt him; they are the best the vampires have, but without blade they are no match for the reapers.More action, better special effects and a truly awesome performance by Luke Goss as the reaper, Blade 2 is sheer entertainment that is at least as good as the original, maybe even slightly better.8/10.
The direction of Guillermo del Toro, whose Hellboy films and Pan's Labyrinth were extremely enjoyable, is at best questionable including a questionable decision to transition from a live action fight scene to ridiculous looking CGI.
The characters are as one-dimensional as they get, the plot is very basic yet makes little sense (Blade is such a super person that he can easily wipe out both old and new vampires, so why team up with the old ones?), and the dialog is full of tired and unfunny one-liners that leave no opportunity unused to show us once again how supposedly cool Blade is.
Blade 2 had some awesome fighting sequences at the end unlike any i've seen, great special effects, and it's a damn good movie, i've watched it like 30 times and i never get tired of seeing it.
It is a multi-layers movie where the action/horror fanatic will have what they're looking for, a Vampire/Kung Fu flick (and that's fine) however those of us who are asking for more than just another Blade sequel might discover a very thought through movie blend in a myriad of details with extraordinary fight sequences (thanks to Donnie Yen) and a "design" feel to it.
Obviously the main critic against Blade II is a very "simplistic" scenario when you know from the beginning what is going to happen: the story is about Blade (Wesley Snipes) who is half vampire, half human and refuses his vampire nature trying to fight the "bloodlust" he suffers.
The story had a little bit too it I guess but a bit cliche all round but hey, thats not why you go to see a horror/action flick is it!?So overall, a good movie if you liked the original Blade, if you have not seen the original, hire that first!.
The lack of character-development and story is substituted with lots of unnecessary gore and continuous action (but none of the fight-scenes are anywhere near as good as in first one!!).
The good thing about Blade 2 is that it's not like other sequels made for money, it's actually not worse than its predecessor.
You'll have to look hard for a dumber action scene, actually.The Blade series is here turned into something much less mature and adult and into something that is even more dumbed down than the original (which was no Casablanca, but still good).
He takes time to meditate, he actually lets a wounded vampire go and he does a lot of unnecessary sword moves for no other purpose than to get the audience to watch Wesley Snipes make his moves.
Since I liked the first 'Blade' movie, I went to a friend to see the sequel.
Thus, an uneasy alliance is formed between Blade and the Vampire legion to combat this growing epidemic.Action fans who like their violence bloody with plenty of martial arts and gunfights will probably be pleased.
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.
It's slightly better than The Matrix, pretention incarnate, but can't come close to the physical beauty of CTHD, whose action sequences did not rely on computers.Blade II steals its plot wholesale from Aliens, which is a common action film to steal from (it's probably the best ever made at this point, over 15 years old now).
I saw the first movie Blade and although somewhat bloody at times it was a fairly well done vampire film.
Although there are a few well choreographed fight scenes in Blade II where Snipes gets to show off his stuff, unfortunately, many were just animations which became cartoonish at times.
Wesley Snipes is even better than he was in the first film, and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints) does a great job as Blade's sidekick.
This is how sequels should be made.This time, the vampires Blade has been hunting down for so many years want to make a truce so that they can recruit him to help them kill a new breed of monsters called reapers, which if you want a brief description are creatures that look like half vampires half zombies and half, whatever, with a chin that opens up wide.Blade reluctantly agrees, knowing full well that the vampires could turn on him and Whistler if things go wrong.Overall, Blade 2,is a great film for fans of Action movies, comic movies or the first one.
Blade 1 is a fantastic film for the action/vampire genre.
Especially when he chooses to kill Nomak when as said "they want the same thing." I also love Wesley Snipes as Blade and even Luke Goss plays a good Nomak.The fight scenes are very entertaining...when they aren't Computer Generated.
This chapter of the Blade trilogy does not quite deliver the same atmosphere as the first installment, but still brings enjoyment, a capable cast, and a good story.I can't rate this one as high as the first, but it's still a great vampire film, which delivers some of the best elements.
The film is based on a comic book which is meant to be unreal and supernatural.My type of movie!!!09/10 Because some of the CGI scenes were too obvious at the ninja fight..
It should be a no-brainer that if the only movies you can appreciate fall into the category of films such as "Vertigo", "Citizen Kane" and the like, you're not going to have fun watching "Blade II".
In terms of the visual style of the film, "Blade 2" fares even better than its predecessor; with its dark and stylistic presentation, this movie certainly is a treat for the eyes.
After re-watching it, however, I realized that a lot more attention was payed to the first film.Wesley Snipes returns in the sequel as the title character and he is woolly at best.
BLADE II (2002) (BAD) (D: Guillermo del Toro) - Everything is wrong with this mess, and typical of recent films in the horror genre: All action and SFX, nothing else.
I have seen a lot of movies worse than Blade, but it could have been done much better if the main characters were explained better.
and "Blade".The movie takes up two years after the first film.
Even more when I see Blade uttering things like "Oooh, how exciting", or having a romantic interest.The movie also features lots of martial arts, some done by Wesley Snipes, other by CGI, and other by a stunt surely.
CGI: I know its good to have computerised fight scenes in action movies but sometimes they can go a bit too far because some of the fight scenes were totally unbeleavable and trust me you can tell where cgi has been used.But if you overlook these problems and just watch for a good fun time then you will like it.Also The Reapers were very good wereas the bloodpack they suck.SCORE 7/10 or 3* out of 5.
I mean, I like the first movie, "Blade" have a lot of good fighting, good specials effects, it was fun and I know that the plot wasn't really elaborate, but it worked.
The reapers make up and special effects where great they have a good point there, and the fight where cool too, but the movie sucks.I'am a fun of Guillermo del Toro since "Mimic" and "Devil's Backbone", he is quite a good director, but here it looks like he get paid and he don't care.
However, if you are, like me, more a fan of vampire films than action movies , then you might ask yourself why the first movie needed a sequel like this one?
Wesley Snipes' performance in this sequel of Blade is totally amateur, his fight scenes show that he really knows nothing of martial arts.
Del Toro works wonders with the action aesthetic and special effects, making us feel like we're really there watching these creatures of the night pound the ever loving hell out of each other in one fantastical, bloody, stylistic scene after the next.
the first part was amazing.This one is a masterpiece.Wesley snipes is one tough guy.Though alot of you thought how whistler came back,well you must watch the movie and find out.If your a fan of blade,you must defenetly go watch this movie.Its pure action,more horror and the fighting scenes are perfect..
A step or two up from the first outing.First up, the story is better - some folks are saying there was no story but this one has 200% more story than the cliche that is the first movie's 'plot', that one and this one are really about Snipes fighting vampires, not an in-depth character study.
Fantastic movie, more action and comedy than the first.Wesley Snipes does an excellent job as Blade again.Favorite Line:Blade: "But your a human"Vampire Lawyer: "Barely ...
I see a movie to have a good time, and in that sense, DOES 'BLADE 2' DELIVER!!!
After Blade II, I can definitely say that it is one of the best vampire movies that I have ever seen.
Definitely better than the original Blade and a good way to spend eight bucks (or whatever movies cost nowadays).