Blade

Rating: **
Date Seen: 1998-08-21

Blade, while possessing some nice cinematography and interesting ideas, suffers -- especially toward the end -- from a half-baked script and clumsy editing. It starts out with promise, revealing an underground world of vampires who are at war with "Daywalker", a hybrid whose mother became a vampire while he was a fetus; so his DNA transformed partially to become vampiric. Unfortunately, the mysteries presented at the beginning are never answered. I really lost hope when we learned the prophesy of the vampire god coming to be unleashed into the world. Instead of finding out more about the characters and learning about the vampire race and its history, we get our intelligence insulted with a lot of Power Ranger-like fight sequences and cheesy one-liners. When I see a movie like this, I start to believe the naysayers who think that Hollywood has lost all ability to tell a real story. Oh well. I'm going to see "Saving Private Ryan" on Sunday. Maybe that will restore my faith. I hope so.