Review of Blade (1998) by Brevin S — 28 Jan 2016

The film Blade took the world by storm when it first came out and people loved it. Despite its sub par critics reviews the movie still managed to make 70 million domestically and 131 million worldwide. It became a film that was beloved for its action set pieces and the interesting character of Blade, but when I watched the film today while I can see a lot of great action here this film lacks on giving a compelling and interesting enough story and it also ails in making the characters really that interesting either. While Blade is great to see on screen being portrayed by Wesley Snipes all the other characters along with the main villain do nothing for this story to make it interesting.

N' Brush Wright's character could have been really something interesting, but she is not and instead feels very pale compared to Wesley and she and Blade have no chemistry together on screen.

Stephen Dorff is a character that could have been great but is instead merely just a sideline Marvel villain before there was a MCU. Which is quite sad to say cause I saw some potential at the beginning of the fill for this character, but sadly he is nothing of notable interest.

Overall Blade does have good fight scenes and is defiantly different from most vampire films. It has great action and great cinematography, but it fails in characters and story that are interesting enough to make the action understandable.