Review: Blade II Is Comic Book Made Manifest
- Feb 14, 2018
- 1 min read
From Guillermo Del Toro the most comic book-est of comic book movies.
Two years after the event of the first film, a new vampire menace is stalking the streets, Jared Nomak (Luke Goss) is the first of the reapers, a savage new vampire breed that hunts...other vampires. Thus the vampire nation turns to Blade (Wesley Snipes) to lead a team of killers formed to hunt him. But now they have a common foe, and a far deadlier one.
Blade was a cool movie in that electronic leather kind of way. Blade II is very much the same with one exception, there's more of it. Snipe is at his best, the monstrous reapers are some of the most unique blood suckers ever put to film and the characters' arsenal is expanded with plenty of new toys. The action is better, the story is more interesting and it has 100% more Ron Perlman, which is always a good thing.
Perhaps the best illustration of what makes Blade II so great is an extended fight sequence in a vampire nightclub. It simultaneously expands on the vampire's world by highlighting the twisted depravity of the species, gives a baseline for the competence of the vampire team and establishes how tough the reapers are, as well as giving Blade all the cool he so rightly deserves. All in the space of about 5 minutes.
With almost every shot looking like is was drawn in the pages of a comic book, with characters just outlandish enough to keep things entertaining and, again, maybe the greatest vampires around, Blade II is a must watch.
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