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Blade
2
Starring:
Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Tcheky Karyo, Daz Crawford,
Luke Goss
Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro
Produced by: Wesley Snipes, Peter Frankfurt, Victor McGauley
Written by:Guillermo Del Toro, David S Goyer
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Director Del Guillermo (Mimic, The Devils Advocate) tries his
best to surpass the original with Blade 2. Wesley Snipes reprises
his role as the half human/ half vampire superhero off the pages
of Marvel Comics.
Whistler is the focus of the beginning of the film as Blade
searches for his infected friend. Infected by the vampire strain
whistler has been overcome with the virus for two years. Blade
searches for him to finish off his old friend. This time around
Blade has a new weapons maker and partner named Scud (Mike Reedus).
Scuds character is a pot smoking, slacker who just enjoys the
thrill of vampire hunting. There is an immediate conflict between
him and Whistler when the former is finally returned to his
old self.
The vampire Overlord Damaskinos offers blade a truce through
two emissaries Nyssa (Leonor Varela) his daughter, and Assad
(Danny John Jules). The reason for the truce is a problem that
could destroy both humankind, and vampires known as the reaper
vampire. An apparent anomaly like blade the reaver needs to
feed constantly on blood unlike vampires who are sustained indefinately
after feeding. They also introduce the reaper strain virus to
their victims causing them to become reapers as well. Within
days it was feared they would number into the hundreds, and
then thousands if not stopped. The idea was for Blade and a
group of vampires called the Blood Pack to hunt down these reavers
and stop the destruction of both races. The bloodpack was a
group that had originally been trained to destroy Blade which
causes conflict between the uneasy allies. The Bloodpack consisted
of Chupa (Matt Schulze), Priest (Tony Curran), Snowman (Donnie
Yen), Lighthammer (Daz Crawford), Verlaine (Marit Velle Kile),
and the leader Reinhardt (Ron Perlman). Their job was to hunt
down patient zero- Jarred Nomak (played by Luke Goss of Bros
fame). They figure that if the source was destroyed the epidemic
would be stopped.
The movie was filmed entirely on location in Prague, Czech Republic.
The location adds a distinctive look to the film because of
this. Fight scenes were choreographed by Jeff Ward (Snipes stuntman),
and Donnie Yen (Fist of Fury, Iron Monkey). Wesley Snipes also
contributed to give the fight scenes a violent, straightforward
edge. The fight scenes are the best part of the film with the
action being fluent and breathtaking. It surpasses it's predecessor
tenfold on the wow factor.
The film tries its best to put together a plausible storyline,
and has some merit to it. It just seems to get lost in all of
the action, and mayhem. This keeps it from being a complete
movie on that point, but if you are an action fan you will be
highly entertained.
