Storyline
When Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an evil vampire rebel (Deacon Frost) who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect voracious blood god La Magra.
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Cast
Sanaa Lathan, Donal Logue, Jeff Imada, Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Lennox Brown, Stephen Dorff, Matt Schulze, N'Bushe Wright, Udo Kier, Arly Jover, Traci Lords, Kevin Patrick Walls, Tim Guinee, Eric Edwards, Donna Wong, Carmen Thomas, Shannon Lee, Kenny Johnson, Clint Curtis, Judson Scott, Sidney S. Liufau, Keith Leon Williams, Andray Johnson, Stephen R. Peluso, Marcus Aurelius, John Enos III, Eboni 'Chrystal' Adams, Lyle Conway, Freeman White, D.V. DeVincentis, Marcus Salgado, Esau McKnight Jr., Erl Van Douglas, Yvette Ocampo, Irena Stepic, Jenya Lano, Levan Uchaneishvili, Richard 'Dr.' Baily, Nikki DiSanto, Ryan Glorioso, Elliott James, Stephen Norrington, Gerald Okamura, Frankie Ray, Carrie Seeley, Beth Theriac, Ted King
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Reviews
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Wesley Snipes understands the material from the inside out and makes an effective Blade because he knows that the key ingredient in any interesting superhero is not omnipotence, but vulnerability.
70
Blade in no way resembles a good movie, but its combination of music-video bombast, goth-rock sensibility, high-tech industrial production design, cold-blooded glossy magazine visuals, high-fashion club culture, horror movies, blaxploitation movies, Hong Kong movies and comic-book nihilism make it diverting trash.
70
The A.V. Club
Sure, the story is pretty standard, and the dialogue is laughable or worse. But creative cinematography and non-stop, decently choreographed gratuitous violence make watching this comic-book movie—Blade is a minor, almost-forgotten Marvel comic—entertaining.
67
"Interview With the Vampire" it's not, but marginally thrilling nonetheless, and besides, any film that features a house party in which the ceiling-mounted fire extinguishers expel freshets of crimson goo in place of H2O gets my vote.
63
ReelViews
By the time the film is well into its second hour, we begin to wonder whether there's ever going to be a variation on the carnage and mayhem. As it turns out, there isn't.
