gorf What a stupid movie Blade is. It's a perfect blend of most of the things that were wrong with the 90s. Style over substance, violent anti-heroes, extreme blood and gore, bad music, bad CGI, unnecessary use of sunglasses and fat, flatulent people...the only reason people rate this disgusting movie higher than "Spawn" is because of the gore. It's a very strange movie. The movie tries very hard to make us think Blade is a tough guy, but it's so forced and unnatural. The tacky opening, where blade shows up at a rave party and kills a bunch of vampires is embarrassing to watch, especially when he does that weird "ooooh yeeeaaah" gesture with his arm. There's a disturbing Oedipal theme in this movie too. It's so blatant that I even noticed it as a kid. The absurd quote about "motherlovers" suddenly makes more sense now. Maybe there's a deleted scene of Blade trying to ice skate uphill on YouTube?If that's not bad enough, wait till you see the flatulent, naked, Jabba the Huttish vampire who sounds like a smurf. And people took this movie seriously in 1998? They probably wanted a piece of The Nutty Professor's success. Fortunately, Blade and his mothe...I mean, girlfriend tortures the vampire to death with UV light because he's fat and ugly. The movie isn't really about "good vs evil" either, since according to this movie, the Crucifix is powerless against vampires (they took away the most interesting thing about vampire movies). Still, there are supernatural elements in the movie. The vampires worship a pagan deity called "the blood god", and we are shown pages from a "vampire bible". Overanalyzation time!Does this mean that the blood god created the universe? If so, why does Blade rebel against his creator? And why does he hunt down and kill vampires, they're just a poor minority trying to worship their god. The vampire religion is shown to be the true one, right? So in a sick and twisted way (this is a sick and twisted movie, after all), Blade is Lucifer. Now, I highly doubt that is what the filmmakers were trying to say, but when you remove the Catholic element from vampire movies, they become meaningless. I bet the filmmakers like all decent Hollywood types didn't want to offend anyone by including Christianity in a wholesome movie about mindless violence, incest and half-naked women. But what are vampires anyway? If they're just freaks of nature, why all the supernatural stuff? Skip this garbage and watch a good vampire movie instead. Like Terrence Fisher's Dracula movies or the excellent BBC version from the 70s. Or better yet, read the original novel by Bram Stoker.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Blade" (1998)New Line Cinema as required Warner Bros. Picture affiliate, distributes an amazingly visceral comic book adaptation with first appearances of the title-given character within an almost forgotten "Marvel Universe" in series since publishing "Tomb of Dracula", starting from 1973, when director Stephen Norrington, at age 33, inherits all the trust by his producers, especially strings-pulling executives Stan Lee & Avi Arad, to bring a bold version to the movie theatres tinted in bloody reds and visual-striking scenes embedded in light & shadow with actor Wesley Snipes in the title role featuring on his best efforts of his acting career, getting supported all along in 115-Minute-Final-Cut opening with a secret night club underground scenario under pumping beats by DJ Krush, when supports all-along up front Kris Kristofferson as "Blade" medically-conditioning character of "Whistler" must give in under nemesis vampire Deacon Frost and his street-running thugs, portrayed by fully-character-inhabited Hollywood actor Stephen Dorff so that 28-year-old N'Bushe Wright as Nurse Karen, struggling with the drug of vampirism herself, where the close-to-neo science-fiction-movie in timeless decor by production designer Kirk M. Petruccelli delivers the ultimate vampire-action-film by following the genre rules of engagement to open revisits for any generation to follow the art of moviemaking.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

adonis98-743-186503 A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. Pretty much everyone knows that before X-Men (2000) Marvel was basically a nobody and movies such as Captain America (1990) and Fantastic Four (1994) prove how the 90's were a bad time for them but somewhere around 1998 a little film called 'Blade' hit the big screen and it turned out to be Marvel's first big movie that both fans and critics liked (except Rotten Tomatoes as always). Blade has been perfectly casted as Wesley Snipes he is entertaining and just epic in every scene that he is in it also Kris Kristofferson as Whistler great character played by an excellent actor. Now the action is terrific especially the opening scene in the Club where Blade goes full beast mode in a bunch of vampires that was pretty awesome, the villains played by Stephen Dorff, Arly Jover and Donal Logue were also pretty good but i'll get in a bit more spoiler territory in a second. Now as far as the villains went and the basic story about the Blood God and that whole thing i found it very cheesy i mean there's a scene where Deacon Frost says that Blood God is the toughest and most powerful vampire that has ever lived on this world and yet in less than 4 minutes he turns into a balloon after Blade shoots him with his serum and i felt that there was no real danger for the hero at all and the same goes for the other 2 villains especially Quinn i mean his death was pretty quick and disappointing but at the same time kinda badass and the same goes for Mercury all 3 of them were killed pretty easily and the whole plan of Frost in the end was kinda retarded if you think about it plus you do get the feeling that you're watching a 90's film thanks to those crappy cgi effects but overall Blade is still a fun film i still freaking enjoyed the hell out of it in terms of action, acting and characters it's a 10 easily but it does have it's fair share of flaws and that is mostly with the 3rd act and Frost's gigantic master plan. The sequels that followed i have reviewed them ages ago and i gotta say after watching Blade (1998) once again i still think that Blade II is the Best of the Trilogy not just because of the cool story with the Reapers but also because of the excellent director behind which is Guillermo del Toro now as far as Blade Trinity goes? I do understand that it does have some flaws not many but just some here and there but the villain and the 3rd act it's still miles better than this film's ending. I'm going to give Blade an A-

Tweekums Vampires are living amongst us with the collaboration of those in power; they manage to keep a low profile though… that is until upstart vampire, Deacon Frost, decides that the old order needs to be overthrown. Standing against the vampires is Blade, the 'Day Walker', a half vampire who has none of the usual vampire weaknesses and, with the help of a serum, can control his lust for blood. Other senior vampires look down on Frost because he was turned rather than born a vampire but unlike them he is interested in the past and has deciphered ancient text with tell how to summon the Blood God… to do it he will require Blade's blood.Early on Blade rescues a doctor. Karen, who has been bitten and takes her back to his base where, with the help of his friend Whistler, they attempt to cure her. Once treated she tries to help him find a cure as well as working to make more effective weapons to battle the vampires. After many fights with Frost's underlings the final confrontation and the ceremony take place… inevitably it will be fairly bloody.I haven't read any of the comics that inspired the film so can't say how close this is… I can however say that this is an exciting take on vampire films. Gone are the usual crosses and holy water; instead we get swords and silver stakes and bullets. While there are plenty of horror elements it is effectively an action film with lots of shooting and martial arts action. Wesley Snipes is great in the title role as he makes the action look real rather than excessively choreographed. Stephen Dorff is menacing enough as bad guy Frost; it helps that the character is an intelligent villain rather than an obviously matched evil version of Blade. N'Bushe Wright is likable as Karen, Kris Kristofferson is solid enough as Whistler and Donal Logue provides some needed levity as a vampire who keeps getting an arm hacked off. The action scenes are pretty intense and at times quite bloody. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of Snipes, vampire films or exciting action.