
Variety
Though slick and diverting in some aspects, increasingly silly pic has trouble meshing disparate elements --- horror, superhero fantasy, straight-up action --- into a workable whole.
Full reviewWesley Snipes is Blade, a half-vampire, half-mortal man charged with ridding earth of a race of vampires. Also stars Stephen Dorff as leader of the vampires, and Kris Kristofferson as Blade's mortal right hand man.
Though slick and diverting in some aspects, increasingly silly pic has trouble meshing disparate elements --- horror, superhero fantasy, straight-up action --- into a workable whole.
Full reviewThis Wesley Snipes one-man show is far from dull. In chunks, it's slick, stylised, violent and has plenty of edge, but is not quite sharp enough to hit your thrill-buttons regularly. No more than a spattered blend of Ghostbusters and Spawn.
Full reviewAlthough the opening scene suggests a dark urban satire, Blade quickly turns into a cartoonish futuristic action-adventure yarn in which Blade is the only thing keeping humanity from being exterminated by vampires in a hematological holocaust.
Full reviewWesley 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.
Full reviewBlade is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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