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90To appreciate the movie, you have to be okay with vampire violence. I don't mean subtle little nips at the neck and, ooooh, it's directed by Werner Herzog.
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88You can sense the difference between a movie that's a technical exercise ("Resident Evil") and one steamed in the dread cauldrons of the filmmaker's imagination.
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80Like the original, Blade II has superior production values and visual and special effects. Snipes and Kristofferson build on the resonance of their original portrayals.
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80Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time.
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78Invades theatres with its fangs bared for action. It's bloody hell and we love every minute.
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75It's all speed, movement and blood -- lots and lots of blood.
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70The drawing card for Blade II is -- the promise of a blood-soaked action/horror thrill ride, and Snipes and Del Toro get the down-and-dirty job done with style.
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70Everything "Blade" should have been but wasn't: stylish, fast-paced, and comfortable with its own ridiculousness.
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70Because of the movie's wonderful shamelessness, its mordantly funny chills and fights are huge turn-ons. A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness.
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70Just be advised guys, Blade II is as estrogen-free as movies get, so you might want to leave your date behind for this one, or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time.
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67Del Toro lays on the operatic head-trip gore, but his heavy-handed embrace of the ''Blade'' mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a performance than he did in the first film.
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63The film stays true to its unpretentious origins -- it's like a comic book come to life, with an undeniable visual flair, a lot of kinetic action sequences, minimal character development, and a plot that could charitably be called "uneven".
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63Though superior to the original Blade, the superiority is mostly in the myriad ways the "suck-head" enemies can be blown up, melted and dismembered.
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63What makes Blade 2 marginally better than "Blade," especially if you thought the first was a hollow spectacle? It has a plot.
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60May be too grisly to extend its appeal beyond its fan base.
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50Much sillier - and the movie's nearly two-hour running time seems to last nearly as long as a vampire's afterlife.
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50Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around, though emotionally, it's closer to dead than undead. Blade II is for the horror faithful only; others will be grasping their crucifixes.
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50Suffers from way too many fight scenes that last way too long and look way too computer-generated.
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50Even Del Toro can't raise the conceptually dead.
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42This vampire story is as soulless as they get.
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40The sequences are handsomely designed, but frankly, you might as well be watching someone play a video game.
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38Against the rest of his dramatically flimsy crew, Snipes' sunglasses-at-midnight strut conveys an almost lifelike sheen. Almost. He's more alive than the movie, which is dead on arrival.
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38Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story.
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38It was possible to hope that Blade II would turn out to be good. Well, forget it.
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30Appallingly violent.
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25So witless it wins most of its laughs when Czech-speaking characters spout obscenities that get translated into English subtitles.
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10The big news in Blade II is that there's something worse than vampires, but is there something worse than Blade II?
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0Duller than first version.
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Mixed: 2 out of 23
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TahjW.9
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TysonB.8The start of something great (Orginal Blade) just changed tone and downgraded to good.