Twenty years ago, Wesley Snipes and Guillermo del Toro paved the way for everything from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to ‘Twilight’...

| Mar 23, 2022

It's a movie with real stakes - and not just the ones Blade throws through vampiric hearts.

| Oct 20, 2021

Blade II is an incredibly upbeat picture, and rather than focus on Blade's loneliness or how he's humanity's protector and yet can never truly be one of them, del Toro gleefully jumps into the action scenes.

| Oct 18, 2018

The plot is essentially Blade fighting a bunch of people, then talking to a bunch of people, then fighting a bunch of people, then talking to a bunch of people, and keep repeating. Over and over.

| Oct 18, 2018

The best installment of the saga and one of the clearest examples of the splendid handling of the cinematographic narrative treasured by the Mexican filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 18, 2018

Blade, the protagonist of Blade II, takes his blade and shampoo factory to Prague, where many a super vampire are blade adieu.

| Aug 29, 2018

There's no script to speak of, but del Toro devises every battle to wow even the most jaded martial-arts mavens; the dissolutions and implosions are beautiful.

| Jul 14, 2015

Basically, the sequel replays the original movie's set pieces with even more gore and less coherence.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2015

Blade II is certainly not without interest... But mostly, it looks and feels so much like a video game that some members of the audience will feel their thumbs twitching before the final reel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2015

In the inventive fight scenes, [Blade's] sword clangs, and there are sluicing sounds when it finds its target, all in keeping with the unapologetic bang! blam! pop! comic-book spin director Guillermo Del Toro brings to the film.

| Jul 14, 2015

The original Blade movie was a chilling, gory vampire story, energetic and stylish -- all in all, a bloodthirsty success. The second one's chaotic and dumb and almost completely without thrills.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2015

Del Toro's aim is brutally simple: to give your adrenalin glands a bootcamp work-out. Granted, the spin-dry visuals and hectic tempo mean the style is the content -- but what style, what energy and what a bloody great sequel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2015

It's a fabulous-looking package, elegantly orchestrated by del Toro, who has an unerring eye for undead iconography, which he takes to visually imaginative extremes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2015

It is directed by Guillermo del Toro: by "directed" I simply mean he turned his camerawork over to the computer graphics surgeons who cut, slice, dice and vivisect the material to mount a gross eyeassault of CG sequences.

| Jul 14, 2015

Del Toro is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story. And only a critic, sworn to serve, could stick it out to the end.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2015

The frenetic fight scenes are too fast for non-vampire eyes, but those familiar with the original should find plenty to like.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2015

No one seems to be having much fun, with the possible exception of Kris Kristofferson, who is back as Blade's venerable human sidekick, Whistler. The film finds few variations on the themes of run, kick, chomp and gulp.

| Jul 14, 2015

The world can always use another entertainingly trashy B-movie, and Blade II fits the bill.

| Jul 14, 2015

Blade II is a better vampire movie than recent entries such as Queen of the Damned or Dracula 2000. That said, Wesley Snipes' return as slayer of the undead still is fairly anemic.

| Jul 14, 2015

Del Toro has Blade II timed to the emotional beat, and it flows from track to track like your favorite CD mix.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 14, 2015