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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $14.96 OUR Price: $5.97 You SAVE: $8.99! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Blade - New Line Platinum Series Reviews
Back to gritty vampire movies
Great movie. I love vampire movies in general, but this was a good return to the grittier movie. Plus, who wouldn't like to see Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff battle it out? This is by far the best movie in the trilogy, but they're all good.
Best Comic to Movie Adaptation, ever!
Blade is a five star movie. It could be argued to be the best comic-book to movie adaptation of any movie ever made. Personally, this reviewer thinks it's Wesley Snipe's best movie role and will define him through the next few years. Blade is such a good movie that it had two sequels and will have a mini-series spun off from it. That gives great testimony to the strong script and Snipe's role in this picture.
Blade is a fusion of a comic book and a horror movie. However, in most movies the regular humans are like on a horror ride. They are reacting to the situation. Blade is quite different. When looking over a night club that gives human blood to vampires, Blade tells a cohort of over four vampires guarding the club. "But," Blade coldly remarks, "there are scarier things out tonight: me."
Blade makes the best of an excellent plot. While there are many African-American actors in the movie it does not give it a weird feeling of a "black-plotation" movie of the 1970s. Remember, the original Blade comics were written during that time. But these excellent comics never had the feel of black-plotation, a tribute to the writing ability of Marv Wolfman (Ironic, is it not? A "Wolfman" was writing Vampire comics). Blade comics were written about pure horror. Deacon Frost, a vampire made by Dracula, is fought by Blade in his mad attempt to enslave the human race as a food source for vampires species.
The action of Blade only stops to push the story along or give much needed back ground. The fight/slaughter at the Vampire dance club in the beginning of the movie is still one of the best fight sequences ever put to big screen. This part stands up well to modern movies and sets the standards. Indeed, only the recent Matrix movies has slightly better fight sequences. No movie of 2006 can best the fight sequence
The Vampires are the perfect foils to the singular in Blade. Deacon Frost, as the leader of the new generation "punk" vampires, only has one purpose, the conquest of Earth using Vampire black magic. Blade is the only thing that can stop Frost in his scheme to take over the earth.
The cast of this movie is perfect. Wesley Snipes perfectly portrays the driven Blade. Kris Kristopherson delivers one of the better performances of his career as the helper/scientist "Whistler". N'Bushe Wright plays the Doctor/Victim who learns quickly to fight the Vampires. Stephen Dorff does an excellent job portraying the evil Deacon Frost.
Blade is a five star movie that stands the test of time. It has a black theme but is a horror movie, not a comic movie. A person can watch this movie more than once and never get bored.
5 stars and this movie is one of the best of 1998.
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