Blade (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Superb action film
Disadvantages: Storyline is a little weak.

...in my opinion is the Blade trilogy and in particular this one, the first big screen adventure for the half man, half vampire Blade. The fact that Wesley Snipes stars as the Daywalker was one of the factors that lead me to watching it but it certainly was a good decision. When his mother is bitten by a Vampire during Childbirth she dies but the baby takes on the form of a half Human, half Vampire Daywalker who later becomes known as Blade (Wesley ... Read review

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I liked the sound of Blade when I first heard about it way back in 1998. It sounded different, unique, and had a new slant on things (well, vampire things), but why were HMV forever trying to flog it off? Hmmm, best avoid it and spend my hard earned pennies elsewhere. Skip forward to the shiny new millennium though (slipping off the Bacofoil suit and leaving the flying car in the hover driveway naturally) and Blade has now been snapped up by the ever ... Read review

Advantages: Wesley Snipes, loads of blood and action
Disadvantages: Not for the squeamish

...him alone as well. Whistler and Blade make a good team; their one and only mission in life is to kill as many vampires as they possibly can. They are working to protect the human race and destroy these creatures who feed on the blood of the innocent. In Blade's own words, he has all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses. The vampires call Blade the "daywalker" as he is able to walk in sunlight. He does have one weakness - the thirst - ... Read review

Advantages: Great action, great story, some of the best characters ever created. Superb modernisation of the vampire myth.
Disadvantages: None. It's great.

...their daily / nightly business. Blade circumvents a lot of previous vampire baggage by taking the story of vampirism and bringing it right up to date, here in the modern world. The result is an absolutely superb action flick, with great characters, an excellent storyline, and well-paced action. The story goes something like this:- Vampires exist. They are not a myth, they are not a legend. They are real and they are among us. One vampire in particular, ... Read review

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

Blade was first released in 1998, directed by Stephen Norrington, and starring Wesley Snipes as a half human half vampire, who's mission is to slay all the bad vampires of the world. When I first saw this film I loved it, I was a big fan of the comic books, and watching a big screen adaptation was just well worth the wait. I thought snipes was a brilliant actor to play blade, having seen his early films i.e. passenger 57, and demolition man, this ... Read review

Advantages: Action packed. Great special effects.Fantastic Soundtrack.
Disadvantages: Writing a bit thin at times.

...(mindless I suppose) violence then Blade is for you. It is no Citizen Kane or Seventh Seal but who the hell wants that on a Saturday night with a few beers? *** Footnote *** Just incase you are interested. Wesley Snipes is currently filming Blade 2. ... Read review

Advantages: Engaging film
Disadvantages: None worth mentioning

...in basic terms, is that Blade was converted to a (semi -) vampire due to his mother being bitten while pregnant with him. Blade is a good vampire of the non-neck sucking variety, he actually fights and kills the baddy blood-thirsty species with various fancy weapons (created for him by Whistler – Kristofferson’s character) and martial art moves and stunts. His adversary is Deacon Frost (Dorff) who wants to convert himself into this supernatural ... Read review

Advantages: Sexy Leads, Sexy action and lots of it!
Disadvantages: That grating voice Snipes does

...just in case! Wesley Snipes plays Blade and if we remember his brilliant performance in Demolition Man we remember what a great action character he makes. Blade was born half-vampire half-man due to his mother becoming infected with a vampire bite during pregnancy. Known to the vampires as day-walker he devotes himself to seeking out and destroying them, hoping one day to find the one who caused what is interpreted as a disease in the film. Snipes ... Read review

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...Comic that went before, Blade introduces us to a world that we never knew existed. The world is amok with vampires, secretly biding their time and developing a power base that could one day threaten the existence of normal human beings. Born to a human mother, Blade is a sort of vampire-hybrid - he all the strengths of a vampire but none of the weaknesses, and has dedicated his life to the pursuit - and destruction - of all vampires. This film essentially ... Read review

Advantages: great film, excellent exras, good presentation
Disadvantages: R2 is once again inferior

...with CSI and found that Blade was on BBC 2. Blade is a very cool comic book film and a very cool dvd which was one of the first dvd's I ever bought and I have yet to write an opinion on, so here goes. Blade (Wesley Snipes) is half man/half vampire. He leads a one-man crusade to clean the city of vampires who are everywhere. He does this with kung-fu, cool weapons and a lot of attitude under the watchful eye of his mentor and guardian Whistler (Kris ... Read review

Advantages: Good direction, well paced, enjoyable nonsense
Disadvantages: A bit silly?

Blade begins, in 1967, with a young mother, obviously in some distress, giving birth. The attendants whip the baby away from her, its fate unknown. We then jump forward to the present day. A young man is being led into what is obviously an exclusive night-club. Loud techno music (I think!) is throbbing, people are gyrating wildly on the dance-floor and doing ‘naughty things’ in the background. Some patrons treat the man a little roughly, ... Read review

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Disadvantages: None

...came across the character called Blade was in 1973. July 1973 to be precise, it was in a graphic novel called “The Tomb of Dracula “number ten in the series. (Graphic novel by the way is the new name for comics with an adult content such as violence), Like Batman, Blade is a character from the dark side of human nature; the areas of the mind and body that polite society does not talk about never mind acknowledges. He is a man whose very being is tortured ... Read review