Blade II (2002)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman
Synopsis:
Blade tracks and rescues his mentor from the clutches of vampires in the Czech Republic and is before long recruited by Vampire Number 1 to join forces and defeat a new common enemy, the Reapers, products of a mutant virus who are immune to silver and garlic and feed on human and vampire alike. But in fact it's all a scheme to secure and copy B's UV-proof gene.
Review:
Never trust a vampire, except when she's drop-dead gorgeous, is the offbeat message of this comic strip gore fest, or so it would seem. The protagonists are so immune to beatings, falls and gunshot wounds that one raises one's hands in defeat in the face of the onslaught of violence and special effects (the explosive effects of sun rays or UV light being a particularly impressive example). The director brings to it his peculiar penchant for underground passageways and bodily mutation, but this is basically a studio product, with Snipes a mere cipher, every click of his neck precisely orchestrated to herald the pummelling of another adversary, and only Kristofferson reminding us that there are human beings in there.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman
Synopsis:
Blade tracks and rescues his mentor from the clutches of vampires in the Czech Republic and is before long recruited by Vampire Number 1 to join forces and defeat a new common enemy, the Reapers, products of a mutant virus who are immune to silver and garlic and feed on human and vampire alike. But in fact it's all a scheme to secure and copy B's UV-proof gene.
Review:
Never trust a vampire, except when she's drop-dead gorgeous, is the offbeat message of this comic strip gore fest, or so it would seem. The protagonists are so immune to beatings, falls and gunshot wounds that one raises one's hands in defeat in the face of the onslaught of violence and special effects (the explosive effects of sun rays or UV light being a particularly impressive example). The director brings to it his peculiar penchant for underground passageways and bodily mutation, but this is basically a studio product, with Snipes a mere cipher, every click of his neck precisely orchestrated to herald the pummelling of another adversary, and only Kristofferson reminding us that there are human beings in there.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman
Synopsis:
Blade tracks and rescues his mentor from the clutches of vampires in the Czech Republic and is before long recruited by Vampire Number 1 to join forces and defeat a new common enemy, the Reapers, products of a mutant virus who are immune to silver and garlic and feed on human and vampire alike. But in fact it's all a scheme to secure and copy B's UV-proof gene.
Review:
Never trust a vampire, except when she's drop-dead gorgeous, is the offbeat message of this comic strip gore fest, or so it would seem. The protagonists are so immune to beatings, falls and gunshot wounds that one raises one's hands in defeat in the face of the onslaught of violence and special effects (the explosive effects of sun rays or UV light being a particularly impressive example). The director brings to it his peculiar penchant for underground passageways and bodily mutation, but this is basically a studio product, with Snipes a mere cipher, every click of his neck precisely orchestrated to herald the pummelling of another adversary, and only Kristofferson reminding us that there are human beings in there.