Blade II (New Line Platinum Series)

Blade II (New Line Platinum Series)
by Guillermo Del Toro

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Movie Review: The best, goriest, most action-packed vampire movie ever!
Summary: 5 Stars

Wesley Snipes returns in his all-star role as the Vampire-human hybrid killer of Vampires, Blade, every Vampire's worst nightmare. Over two years after his last big battle with his old enemy, Deacon Frost, Blade is still looking for his old time mentor, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson). His search has led him out of America and into Prauge in the heart of the Czech Republic. He somehow gets hooked up with a pot-smoking loudmouth named Scud (Norman Reedus), the reason is a mystery to all. He rescues Whistler and cures him of the Vampire Virus, the pathogen responsible for turning ordinary human beings into undead parasitic monsters. Upon regaining his old friend, Blade's crusade to wipe the vampires out takes a rather unexpected turn. He is called forth by the very leader of the nation he has sworn to take out and worst enemy, Vampire Overlord Eli Damaskinos (Thomas Kretschmann), his darkly beautiful and warrior daughter, Nyssa (Leonor Varela), and her fellow side-warrior, Asad (Danny John Jules). Blade learns from them that Vampires have an even greater enemy than he is. This new threat are Reapers, a race of mutant super-vampires, who are even stronger, faster, and more viscious than ordinary Vampires. The Reapers feed on both humans and Vampires, and are multiplying rapidly, for they need fresh blood every few hours and will attack any human or Vampire they can to feed. Within a month's time, their numbers will rise into the thousands. Once they finish off the Vampires, the humans will be next. Now Blade is out to wipe the Reapers out and finally face the progenitor Reaper responsible for the very outbreak of the Reaper plague, Jared Nomak (Luke Goss). Along side Asad and Nyssa, Blade leads a team of Vampire warriors called the Blood Pack, Reinhardt (Ron Perlman), Chupa (Matt Schulze), Lighthammer (Daz Crawford), Verlaine (Marit Velle Kile), Snowman (Donnie Yen(, and Priest (Tony Curran), a team that was originally trained to hunt Blade himself. But that will not be easy, for the Reapers are immune to anything that will kill ordinary vampires, except for ultraviolet light.

This movie has great special effects. It is faithful to the legacy of creatures of the night in every way and places Snipes as a master actor! It shows that even the deadliest of predators have superiors, sooner or later. Seeing the Reapers, who are more like carnivorous, mindless zombies than humans or ordinary Vampires, at their handiwork of draining their victims of blood will leave even the bravest of vampire movie watchers on the edge of their seats! With lots of martial arts fighting scenes and brilliant swordsmanship, it leaves the hand-to-hand combat scenes of Blade I in the dust! Even Vampires have enemies that don't just hunt them, but eat them, now! The Reapers are a totally out-of-this-world new step into Vampire terror. They're basically what the movie is all about. I frankly think that the Reaper is one of the best movie monsters ever made. They're so original and scary. They are unlike humans or vampires, they don't offer their victims life, or resist any emotion that some Vampires may have, or offer any gifts of new ways of living, or act normal in any way at all. They, as the director puts it, "want to suck ya dry." Some of the most intense sequences in the movie is seeing the Reapers open their mouths into foot-wide yapping maws, where their jaws split into twin mandibals equipped with fangs injecting lethal paralyzing venom, and out comes a barbed, snake-like tougne equipped with a gaping tendril-filled orifice that they use to siphon the life blood from their victims. And just wait till you see them in sunlight. See them burn black, the fierce blue light shine out of the the cracks in thier charred flesh in all directions, and finally explode in a shower of ash. As before, there are a lot of cool weapons and gadgets in the movie. And somewhere along the line, there's betrayl and revenge. But if you want to see where that comes in, see the moive and find out for yourself.

Finally, there's the actors themselves. Snipes is great at playing his role as Blade. Maybe it's the role he's best at. The one female character in the cast, Nyssa, is just what was needed for Blade II. She's pretty, she's a fierce fighter and she has feelings that show that she has some humanity even though she's a pure-blood. The relationship between Blade and Nyssa that develops through the movie, is one of the new ingredients to this sequal that makes it better than its progresser. Luke Goss has what I think is the second most important role in the movie. If you see him without his Reaper makeup on, you might think it ironic that he plays the scary, malicous super Vampire because he looks totally different, handsome in fact. But he plays his role as Nomak wonderfully.

But, one the best things on the movie is the final showdown. In Blade I, even though Frost was infused with La Magra, Blade had no real trouble putting putting him down. In the final battle of this one, Blade is totally out-matched by his opponent. If you've seen Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, you may be reminded of the battle scenes in that movie where muscular men are thrown around like toys. This final battle is truly well-down.

And Snipes really does follow the qoute he makes in the movie. "Keep your friends close, and keep your enemies even closer."

Summary of Blade II (New Line Platinum Series)