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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troll's Choice" data-source="post: 118477" data-attributes="member: 2461">Alright, my dear friends....since you've given your humble opinions, I might as well chip in with my own 2 bits.I saw the movie the other night. I have mixed feelings about it. Firstly, I'll point out the things I did like:I liked Blade's fight scene against the vamps in the beginning of the movie when he took out those suckers on the motorcycles. Helluva way to kick @ss.I liked the fact that Whistler returns. I have some reservations about the plot device they use to bring him back, but he's a cranky, ornery old goat, and I like him.I like it when Blade is introduced to the vamp squad that was originally designed to bring him down, and when one the those vampire suckers decides to harass him, Blade responds in his ever-so-humble way, and plants that bomb on that sucker's head. Great scene. "Don't look at her. Look at me." {smack}I liked Blade's fight scenes with Morac or whatever his name is. You know...the head reaper guy, son of the head vampire guy. Those fight scenes were quite entertaining. I dug it.There were some other things about the movie I liked, but I can't remember everything. There were, however, some things I did NOT like. These were:Some of the fight scenes were shot too close. It wasn't  shot close for every fight scene, but they pulled that stunt enough times to mildly irritate me.The fight scenes when the reapers invade the vampire club: what can I say? It was so chaotic, I could hardly tell what the hell was going on. That was a mistake.The movie was a little slow in places. Sounds crazy, but true.The girl vampire who invades Blade's home: what were they thinking? In their fight, their battle is practically a draw. If they had kept fighting, he'd have killed her because of her allergy to silver, plus a cut on her suit would have exposed her to the UV lamp, thus killing her. Blade would have been seriously injured, maybe enough for the other vamp to finish him off if such had been their intention. Even so....her fighting skills at the beginning of the movie easily rival Blade's, yet throughout the rest of the movie, she's practically useless compared to Blade. This is a MAJOR inconsistency.Another thing about the girl vampire is that she is BORING. Sure, she's pretty, but she sure as hell didn't inspire me. She plain vanilla in my book.When the girl vampire and her buddy are in the tunnels wading through the water, Blade tells them to get out of there. If they're so well trained, why are they in the water in the first place? Classic ambush. I saw that one coming a mile away. A little unpredictability would be nice. There was a nice ledge there up against the wall. They could have walked there instead of in the water. But doing that would have required brains.The head vampire is at one point strangling his daughter, the one that nearly handed Blade's @ss to him at the start of the movie. Yet he provides no resistance when his son arrives...How quaint. Neither does the girl. Let's all lie there like sheep while our own kin murders us. Never mind that they're both trained killers. Very sloppy.Another thing I feel compelled to mention, is the movie is unnecessarily gory. Sometimes implied violence works better than a slaughterfest. What can I say?Something about the movie's pace was off. It's hard to explain what was wrong with it, but it wasn't as inspiring as the first movie. That being said, was Blade II inconsistent? HELL, YES. Was it boring? No. Did I like it despite its glaring faults? Surprisingly, yeah. Will I add it to my video collection? I'll think about it...P.S. I can scarcely believe I wrote a review this long. Please forgive me for my rambling, but I loved Blade, so I had high hopes for Blade II. Hope I didn't bore ya too much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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