Movie Review for Blade II

Summary: Blade is half man and half vampire and consumed by a desire to avenge the curse of his birth and save the human race from a blood-drenched Armageddon. Blade must align himself with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a greater evil than either has ever faced--a new kind of super-vampire that is itself on a vicious hunt to eradicate both races.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel of 3BlackChicks Review (7/0)
            I think Blade took that little sword of his and tore up the plot.

By Carlo Cavagna of AboutFilm.com (7/0)
            Guillermo del Toro directs with considerably more flair than Stephen Norrington, whose original B...

By Marjorie Baumgarten of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            It's bloody hell and we love every minute.

By Laura Bushell of BBC (7/0)
            Delivers all you could wish for from the sequel to 1998's action vampire flick. And then some.

By Ted Shen of Chicago Reader (7/0)
            Everything gets bogged down in one spectacularly gory action sequence after another.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            An improvement on Blade (1998), which was pretty good.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Margaret A. McGurk of Cincinnati Enquirer (7/0)
            No one can call it great art, but as bloody-vampire-shoot-'em-ups go, it is great fun.

By David Keyes of Cinemaphile.org (7/0)
            ...at a point when the movie theater offers little to no genuine thrills, this is one of those mo...

By Paul Clinton (CNN.com) of CNN.com (7/0)
            Blade II is almost excessively violent -- OK, it is excessively violent -- but that's exactly wha...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            Del Toro balances action and atmosphere masterfully -- it's a better video game movie than Reside...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            It's so much adrenaline-pumped B-movie fun, it's nearly worth full price.

By Brian Mckay of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            More fun than shooting a cannon full of razor blades into a cattle pen . . . the biggest problem ...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            It’s a loud, boring mess, with only the vague thought of Kristofferson looking like a drunk Santa...

By Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Within ten minutes, Blade 2 offers audiences a cavalcade of incredible action, thick blood and en...

By Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            The film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings, but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are wor...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Gruseome violence, special effects, fast-moving action, and Del Torro's stylish cutting and frami...

By Mark Dinning of Empire Magazine (6/1)
            Popcorn nonsense for sure, but shot with a wit, skill and understanding of its audience all too r...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            [Del Toro's] heavy-handed embrace of the Blade mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a p...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            It culminates in some pretty amazing fights and plot twists, and you may rest assured that good e...

By Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (7/0)
            An unexpectedly ambitious vampire movie, armed with a bigger budget, a better script, a truly epi...

By Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International (7/0)
            The film mimics better than most the streamlined narrative and graphic power of the best recent c...

By John R. McEwen of Film Quips Online (7/0)
            ...The film works much better as a tongue-in-cheek comedy than a thriller, but I doubt del Toro i...

By Michael Dequina of Film Threat (7/0)
            The action is more heavily stylized and energetic, not to mention Del Toro gives Snipes greater o...

By Blake French of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            As a comic book action movie, it's pure escapism.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Daniel Etherington of FilmFour.com (7/0)
            Will satisfy fans' bloodlust.

By Todd Gilchrist of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            The addition of just enough original ideas, has been, and hopefully will remain the key to keepin...

By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            It must be the end of the world: the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring We...

By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. of Goatdog's Movies (7/0)
            There are plot twists and inventive fight scenes galore, but what director Guillermo Del Toro lov...

By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
            If you like violence on the silver screen in large dollups, this is the flick for you.

By Peter Bradshaw of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            For sheer demonic energy, there's nothing else around to touch this follow-up by Guillermo del To...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Still, if you love carnage, gooey flesh, and dead vamps ... you'll have a fine time.

By Eric Harrison of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
            This film seems interested only in wowing us with stunts, makeup, special effects and plot twists...

By Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
            The sequel is interesting enough to recommend for science fiction fans that are familiar with the...

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            ... about as much fun as taking castor oil.

By Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Alas, when you’re handed crap to start with, there’s really no way to dress it up as anything but...

By Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            While the film has its drawbacks, such as big plot holes, too much gore, and no character develop...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            ... Blade II is more enjoyable than the original.

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            A rousing action flick and a pretty scary horror movie

By Gemma Tarlach of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (6/1)
            Halfway through, however, having sucked dry the undead action flick formula, Blade II mutates int...

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
            This second instalment (in what is to be a trilogy) tries to crank things up even more than in th...

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (7/0)
            There's a deranged celebration of the ultra-most hedonistic kind. But aside from all the intentio...

By Marty Mapes of Movie Habit (7/0)
            It has some of the successful elements of the first movie, but fails to hold together as well

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Kevin A. Ranson of MovieCrypt.com (7/0)
            Between action, gunplay, fights, chases, special effects, and offensive one-liners, Blade II plea...

By Elvis Mitchell of New York Times (7/0)
            A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-poun...

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Isn't as sharp as the original...Despite some visual virtues, 'Blade II' just doesn't cut it.

By Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (7/0)
            As overt and metaphorical as the film's race politics are, they remain complex.

By James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (7/0)
            done with such energy, style, and throwaway abandon that only those who detest the genre altogeth...

By Andrew Manning of Radio Free Entertainment (7/0)
            Delivers killer action with its signature mix of vampire slaying and vicious grace.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Mark R. Leeper of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            For me the fight scenes are just passable.

By Pam Grady of Reel.com (7/0)
            Superhero movies are only as good as the villains that populate them, and this one's got a pistol...

By Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Almost gags on its own gore.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            Blade II is for those undiscriminating movie-goers who want nothing more from a trip to the multi...

By Harry Guerin of RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (7/0)
            With a confidence that would verge on the arrogant if they hadn't got the smarts to back it up, d...

By Laura Miller of Salon.com (7/0)
            Why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in ...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Jim Judy of Screen It! (7/0)
            While the filmmakers obviously know their fan base/target audience and deliver the goods to them ...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            Mexican director Del Toro takes the reins for this followup to the successful 1998 vampire thrill...

By Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Blade II is gooey and dank yet Del Toro recognizes the allure of the original's techno-pulse.

By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            The vampires are so ridiculously easy to kill that it's hard to not wonder why the world needs so...

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            Take away everything that was original about BLADE, add some exploding vampires, bad acting, and ...

By Scott Nash of Three Movie Buffs (7/0)
            If only as much time was spent on the script as was spent on the fight choreography.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Revisionist vampire movie conventions meet Hong Kong action cliches in this hyperkinetic sequel t...

By Ian Waldron-Mantgani of UK Critic (7/0)
            Even when it drags, we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            There's plenty of style in Guillermo Del Toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 min...

By Mike Clark of USA Today (7/0)
            Action-packed but ugly, the movie hasn't a shred of dead or undead humanity aside from a few funn...

By Mark Holcomb of Village Voice (7/0)
            The only dread it inspires is in the possibility that its director prefers turning human flesh in...

By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            Fluid, fast and fun.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Stephen Hunter of Washington Post (7/0)
            Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time.

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (3/4) No reference
            Guillermo del Toro brings a carefully crafted style to Blade 2 that elevates it beyond m...

By Wade Major of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            On the whole, though, Blade II trumps its predecessor, even if it does so through an abundance of...

By Robert K. Elder of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
            ... Blade II is the Tammy Faye Bakker of action movies.

By Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (3/4) No reference
            Da primeira seqüência de luta à piada que encerra a história, o espectador jamais desgruda os olh...

By Luis Martinez of Cinenganos (3/4) No reference
            Tiene fallas gigantescas. En su guión hay sacrificio de lógica y continuidad en pos de las escena...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Dan Fazio of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
            Unfortunately, the flick is longer than it is entertaining, and too brutal for the general public...

By Steven Rosen of Denver Post (3/4) No reference
            If you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore, you'll see Del Toro has brought unexp...

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
            It's definitely an improvement on the first Blade, since it doesn't take itself so deadly serious...

By Sean O'Connell of Eclipse Magazine (3/4) No reference
            Just never seems very convinced of itself that a sequel was even necessary.

By Jason Anderson of eye WEEKLY (6/1) No reference
            It's the most intense and imaginative work of action cinema since The Matrix.

By Staci Layne Wilson of Fantastica Daily (3/4) No reference
            If villainous vampires are your cup of blood, Blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (3/4) No reference
            It is the offspring of delight, that of del Toro and Snipes (who co-produced), and it grows the s...

By Rick Bentley of Fresno Bee (3/4) No reference
            If your measure of the success of a film is how high the body count goes, then Blade II stacks up...

By David Hunter of Hollywood Reporter (6/1) No reference
            Sickening and utterly pointless, when it's not just outrageously tweaked for shock value, the fil...

By Bruce Kirkland of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            Snipes kicks major butt with a stylish flair that keeps you watching, despite the indulgent viole...

By Louis B. Hobson of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            Blade II is slick, high-tech mayhem that will appeal more to comic book and video games fans than...

By JoBlo of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (3/4) No reference
            A balls-to-the-walls rock 'n roll bloody vampire extravaganza.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Robert W. Butler of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            Unrelentingly gruesome, the movie is a giant pigout of violence and stage blood. It has no meanin...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            ... Blade II is still top-heavy with blazing guns, cheatfully filmed martial arts, disintegrating...

By Chuck Rudolph of Matinee Magazine (3/4) No reference
            Rambles on in a disjointed, substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the n...

By Matt Easterbrook of Matt's Movie Reviews (3/4) No reference
            I'm becoming convinced that Wesley Snipes IS Blade.

By Brian Orndorf of Modamag.com (6/1) No reference
            A little faster, a little deeper and a whole lot more grotesque than the original.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (6/1) No reference
            This bloody punch-fest lacks the charming antagonists that livened the original movie.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By James Rocchi of Netflix (3/4) No reference
            Vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order.

By Lou Lumenick of New York Post (3/4) No reference
            While the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched Stephen Norrington-directed ...

By Jim Chastain of Norman Transcript (3/4) No reference
            I have searched to the very core of my brain to find something good to say about Blade 2, but, al...

By Jay Boyar of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            This movie's greatest strengths and weaknesses are in its action scenes.

By Jim Shelby of Palo Alto Weekly (3/4) No reference
            If you are looking for any dialogue beyond 'geeyaghhh...whump...I trusted you with my men, my wil...

By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Blade II has a brilliant director and charismatic star, but it suffers from rampant vampire deval...

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Jack Garner of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (6/1) No reference
            Blade II is the rare sequel that improves upon its original.

By Joe Baltake of Sacramento Bee (3/4) No reference
            One of those rare sequels that's actually better than the original.

By David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
            The vampire thriller Blade II starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun –...

By Joe Leydon of San Francisco Examiner (3/4) No reference
            A bloody good time for anyone who enjoys B-movie comic-book melodrama dressed up with grade-A pro...

By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (3/4) No reference
            Less directed than engineered... (t)his vampire story is as soulless as they get.

By Melanie McFarland of Seattle Times (3/4) No reference
            There's no seduction here, no build. You might leave feeling strangely sucked dry.

                         Reviews of Blade II
By Todd Anthony of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            The plot is riddled with improbabilities and abandons its own internal logic, but the supporting ...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (3/4) No reference
            A stylishly filmed journey down a road to nothingness.

By Audrey Rock-Richardson of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (3/4) No reference
            Just a bloody mess.

By Geoff Pevere of Toronto Star (3/4) No reference
            Relieved of the action-stalling expository responsibility that dogs so many movies based on super...

By Michael Szymanski of Zap2it.com (6/1) No reference
            The fast-paced action is unnervingly fast, almost dizzying. The story is thin, the plot is predic...

By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (6/1) Not Reachable
            A pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking.

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