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6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 26 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 33
  3. Negative: 3 out of 33

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  1. grandpajoe6191
    Sep 27, 2011
    4
    "Blade" has its right character with Wesley Snipes as the Vampire hunter Blade. But the movie is bathed in the wrong dialogues and childish scripts. Overall a film you want to watch when free of your time. No more, no less.
  2. TysonB.
    Dec 3, 2005
    10
    The start of something great.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. PatC.
    Jan 10, 2004
    6
    As the original was actually quite entertaining.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. JustinJ.
    Jul 2, 2004
    10
    COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. [Anonymous]
    Jun 24, 2005
    5
    A major dissapointment. Snipes is good, but that plot is a mess, and the action, while at times cool, is rahter blunt in excecution. No sneaking up, just breaking stright in, which take the fun out of things. Cheesy blood is to cliched. THere are more substantial ways to get action.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. DaveC.
    Aug 2, 2003
    4
    As a viewer, I have never felt this much like being taken for a moron. The screenwriter seems feel the need to throw every plot element in your face 100 times until you get it. The special effects are incredibly naff aswell and Stephen Dorff lacks any sort of intensity as the villain and winds up being about as scary as Rita from the Power Ranger and just comes off as plain annoying (though this does make you want him to die more). I've seen better graphics on Windows 95. I won't go as far as saying this film is as bad as John Carpenter's Vampires or Vampire Hunter D. After all, a lot of the ideas in this film are very imaginative and original and the scenes where Snipes is kicking vampire ass are not to be missed, but it's still bad. Snipes yet again proves that he is a talented actor with an atrocious taste in movie scripts (remember Passenger 57?).… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. PeterH.
    May 27, 2005
    9
    An ecxellent action film with lots of style and shine.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. Gilbert
    Nov 19, 2002
    8
    Wesley's Snipes haven't made enough good movies. He's stuck, it seems, in Conference--league-Actioneer-hell (also known as "Sky Moviemax"). Still, here's a good 'un. Sequel's not bad, either, which is quite startling.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. ShyamS.
    Oct 13, 2004
    10
    Best movie ever made. Snipes: best actor ever to grace our screens.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. kingshahid
    Jan 14, 2012
    8
    The plot itself was to my liking but the movie itself was comparable to Underworld. I prefer Blade over Underworld on both their debuts as a series. I have yet to see the sequels of either though. The costume was much more nicer in Underworld and I enjoyed the Vampire's sophistication in that movie but the action was much more in Blade by Snipes.
  11. heybuddymovies
    Aug 1, 2011
    8
    This movie gets you from the opening club scene of vampire action. Yet another comic I hadn’t read before seeing or since. This was a fun film that had great action sequences. Wesley Snipes has fun with the title character and Stephen Dorff hams it up nicely. The vampire world created for this film is good and Donal Logue is funny as Dorff’s right hand man. Every action scene from beginning to end in this film is edited nicely and just pops off the screen. The following sequels may have brought this franchise to a lackluster conclusion, but this one could stand alone as a great action flick.… Expand
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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 23
  3. Negative: 8 out of 23
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    Big as it is, Blade' is meticulous and subtle, not just in its camera technique but in the way it works its themes and creates a mood.
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  2. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Sarah Kerr
    30
    Adapted from the Marvel Comics series, this movie lacks the mournfulness that sustains a good horror strip; it's trashy, but too deafening and invasive to have the appeal of good pulp.
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  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    38
    Often ridiculous, mostly poorly written and, surprisingly poorly acted too. No matter how many flashy scenes the filmmakers shoot, the bad lines just keep dripping down. [21 Aug 1998]
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