Blade 2 (DVD)

Blade 2 Distributed By: Newline Cinema Directed By: Guillermo del Toro Running Time: 117 Minutes Released: 29 March 2002 Cast: Blade - Wesley Snipes Whistler - Kris Kristofferson Reinhardt - Ron Perlman Nyssa - Leonor Varela Scud - Norman Reedus Damaskinos - Thomas Kretschmann Nomak - Luke Goss Chupa - Matt Schulze Asad - Danny John-Jules Snowman - Donnie Yen Kounen - Karel Roden Verlaine - Marit Velle Kile Priest - Tony Curran Lighthammer - Daz Crawford Rush - Santiago Segura Story: Blade 2 sees Wesley Snipes make his return ...  Read the complete review

After the slightly surprising success of 1998's Blade, a sequel was inevitable. The only question was: would it fall into the usual sequel trap of "bigger and louder" not necessarily equalling better? The sequel certainly has a bigger budget - this can clearly be seen in every aspect of the on-screen action. From the costumes, to the sets and through to the fight sequences, everything is more polished. It's definitely louder too. The fight sequences are spectacular and fast. The ones in the original Blade were pretty good, but the action has really been ramped up here. Blade 2 was released in a post-Matrix world and the public expected ...  Read the complete review

• The Movie When I first saw Blade at the cinema I wasn't impressed. I'm not too keen on the idea of modernising the old vampire myths and you don't get much more modernising than a half-human/half-vampire 'daywalker' kicking Vampire butt in modern day America with martial arts skills and a variety of high-tech weaponry! Subsequent watches drew me in to what is basically a comic book action movie with loads of action, some supremely camp moments and of course Wesley Snipes on top form which you just have to like. Of course when I heard they were making a sequel I was first in the queue to see it - especially when I heard horror ...  Read the complete review

When a new threat appears Blade (Wesley Snipes) has to do something he certainly isn't comfortable with. A new form of enemy that feasts on both Humans and Vampires has become a threat and Blade must join forces with the Vampires he has hunted for years to avoid the world being overrun by these Reaper Vampires. Blade isn't exactly comfortable with this alliance but if it avoids the Reapers taking over it will make his task of destroying the Vampire race a little easier. It also means he can keep an eye on the Vampires and learn a bit more about how they tick. After the first Blade film made a name for the Series in 1997 it seemed inevitable that Wesley Snipes ...  Read the complete review

Blade 2 is the second film in the Blade series and was released in 2002, also a vampire action film. Unlike the first film, Blade 2 was directed by the amazing Guillermo del Toro although it had the same writers. Blade 2 is 117 minutes long, and again rated 18 because of moderate sexual references, lots of violence and gore and many jumpy scenes involving the vampires. Blade 2 had a budget of $54 million and went on to triple this at the box office. It was also the film in the trilogy that took the most money even though it was released in March, when sequels have been known to do badly. The film debuted at #1 in the UK, making $3.6 million in only 355 ...  Read the complete review