Blade

Blade certainly is a movie. It's based on a comic book character of the same name. He's part human, part vampire, and he's out to avenge the death of his mother. Simple plot. Nothing terribly new. In fact, it's all petty standard. One thing I liked about this movie (and possibly the only thing I liked) was seeing Donal Logue in an early role. He really gets into character, here, and he reminds me a lot of my friend, Chad.

Other than that, it's the standard superhero-out-for-revenge fare. Blade wants to kill the guy who killed his mother (played by Steven Dorff) (the bad guy, I mean, not the mother) with the hep of his cancerous friend, Whistler, and his love interest, Karen.

Throughout the film, we get to hear the world's most generic techno and watch the lamest sword fights ever made. I was kind of hoping for some excitement, this being an action film and all, but, alas, no such luck. What I did get to see, however, was woodenacting by Wesley Snipes and horrible CGI. There's really no excuse for it. It didn't even have the charm of Steel.

I did learn one thing from this movie, though: If you blow someone up, and blood splatters everywhere, and you're standing five feet away, none of the blood will touch you.

And can someone explain this to me? In the beginning, Blade is fighing Donal Logue, and he pins him against the wall (literally). He tells him he tried cutting him up several times, and that never killed him, so now he's gonna set him on fire. He sets him on fire, and Donal lives. Now, at the end of the movie, Donal charges him, and with one swift move, Blade decapitates him. Why didn't he do that in the beginning?