Critic Reviews
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The more it progresses, the more surprises it unwraps, and the more promise it presents. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
To love the series, it helps to be exactly Spike TV's target market - a young guy who, when he can't be out drinking beer and throwing up with his friends, loves nothing more than to sit in front of a giant-screen TV doing all of the above. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
When gunplay, kickboxing, and throat slitting actually feel like breaks in the action, you've got a series with brains as well as teeth. [28 Jul 2006, p.55] |
| 70 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Philip A. Stephenson
Although most viewers will notice a scale-down in the scope of effects and stunts, the style, the look and the impact are much the same as in the films. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
"Blade: The Series" is pretty good, really, as these things go. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
With a gorgeous cast (even -- especially? -- the dead ones), plenty of cool slow-mo martial arts action, a glorious collection of lethal hardware and an intriguing plot, Blade's got something for the whole family, provided they rank somewhere between the Munsters and the Mansons in sensibility. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Despite the loud music and all the supposedly ominous foolishness, blood that even spatters the camera lenses, and a sexy proto-vamp who often manages to wear almost no clothes (OK, maybe not despite her), I kind of liked the stupid thing. |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Blade" could work as an earnest fantasy. It just doesn't, yet. |
| 50 |
The New York Times Anita Gates
Surprisingly inoffensive. |
| 40 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Quite the bloodletting experience, even gratuitously so. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Certainly a superhero needs to have gravitas, but Jones takes it too far -- further than Wesley Snipes in the "Blade" movies. |
| 25 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A tediously bloody bore. |
| 20 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
[It] comes up more than a bit short. |
| 20 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Feels more like a bland swig of plasma than the bloody romp that it ought to be. |
| 10 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
It's just more of the same martial artlessness. I kept expecting to see Batman-style OOF! BAM! graphics on screen. |
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