Blade (1998)
When Blade';s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. In a world where vampires walk the earth, Blade has a goal. His goal is to rid the world of all vampire evil.
24 August 1966, Topeka, Kansas, USA
19 December 1963, Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
1964, London, England, UK
12 June 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 June 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
19 April 1969, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 17, 2008
Achieves just the right combination of lore and fetishized action movie.
July 15, 2015
Such techno-action may give Blade enough power for a sequel, but one is left wondering whether there's any room for its central character to sustain interest beyond this flashy debut.
July 15, 2015
For a while, anyway, this vampire picture flies.
July 15, 2015
Sad then to say that Blade is, at best, second-rate pulp, hampered by excessive length, a thematically meandering screenplay, and a general lack of excitement.
July 15, 2015
Blade is often ridiculous, mostly poorly written and, surprisingly poorly acted too.
October 04, 2013
Wesley Snipes has the chops to play Blade, and turns the character in to a vampire hunting John Shaft.
July 15, 2015
Creative cinematography and non-stop, decently choreographed gratuitous violence make watching this comic-book movie entertaining. In fact, it's arguably the best comic-book movie of the year.
January 02, 2011
Boring vampire blood bath isn't for kids.
July 15, 2015
What is unusual about the film is the way it combines high-tech violence with the more up-close-and-personal violence of vampires. These characters and the aggressive way they attack each other justify all the film's considerable noise.
November 24, 2008
Allows Wesley Snipes to show off his athletic prowess, but the storytelling leaves quite a bit to be desired.
July 15, 2015
Filter out the gloss, the gore and the insistent techno score, and all you're left with are the gleaming pecs and bulging biceps of Wesley Snipes as Buff the Vampire Slayer.
July 15, 2015
Has the comic-book movie reached the end of the line? The glumly familiar, been-there-done-that aspect of Blade certainly suggests so.
