Written by David S. Goyer
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Blade: "There's an old saying: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer."
A few months ago, I watched the first Blade movie and I had intended to watch the sequels but I got caught up with other stuff. This month I went back to rewatch MCU movies I hadn't reviewed and I realised I needed to catch up with three sequels.
This one in particular had Blade (Wesley Snipes) searching for his former human turned vampire mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) and reuniting with him in Prague. It's a bit of a tense reunion but soon enough both Blade and Whistler have bigger problems to deal with. Oh and there's Scud (Norman Reedus) too.
Anyways the main plot of this sequel involved a pandemic that severely affected both humans and vampires alike. This forced Blade, Whistler and Scud into teaming up with the Bloodpack gang. The Bloodpack included Asad (Danny John-Jules), Nyssa (Leonor Valera), Reinhardt (Ron Perlman), Chupa (Matt Schulze), Snowman (Donnie Yen), Priest (Tony Curran), Verlaine (Marit Velle Kile), and her lover, Lighthammer (Daz Crawford).
They're a motley crew and the team up with them and Blade, Whistler and Scud had its moments. In between bickering, a deeply heated rivalry between Blade and Reinhardt and Bloodpack members getting picked off, one by one, there was also the main threat himself.
Nyssa and her brother, Jared Nomak (Luke Goss), it was their father Eli Damaskinos (Thomas Kretschmann) who was the main villain. He had the great scheme to create a superior race of vampires and he was the one responsible for the Reapers problem. Not to mention that Scud was also revealed to be a traitor, though that didn't end well for him.
The rest of the movie itself dived into the final battle between Blade and Damaskinos and the latter's offspring. It's fine enough with Damaskinos getting his just desserts and Blade getting something of a power boost. There's a nice final moment for Nyssa, who was presented as a sympathetic character.
- Blade managed to get revenge on Rush (Santiago Segura) by the end of the movie.
- Goyer had planned to use Morbius but Marvel kept a hold on the character.
- Standout music: Cypress Hill and Roni Size's Child of the Wild West and Lennox "Buppy" Brown's Mind What You Say.
- Chronology: Two years have passed since the events of the first movie.
Blade II was an okay sequel. I feel like there's not a lot else to really say. The action sequences are fine, Damaskinos was a decent enough baddie, Blade and Whistler got some cool scene and Scud's betrayal didn't jar that much. I didn't love it but it didn't annoy me either as a sequel.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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