For the best in action and horror, you probably can't go wrong with 'Blade 2'. The action is relentless and non-stop from beginning to end. The film features incredible photography from interesting angles and the visual effects are incredible, to say the least. Wesley Snipes is once again in top form. The creature effects are cringe-worthy - it is just so well done! Being Guillermo del Toro, though, I suppose great visuals were inevitable. The man is a so visionary!I did detest the Hollywood annoying fight to the death first encounter and then working together cliche. They justified it with the silly line "You people shot first." Seriously!!?? This dreadful scene aside (although the imagery during the scene was incredible!), the film was simply spectacular on an action and horror level.

Nowadays, we live in the golden age of superhero movies where great films of the kind are always around the corner. This film was made at a time that now seems like ancient history when it comes to superhero movies. I didn't like how I wasn't familiar with any of the characters. I went through the Marvel Encyclopedia and don't remember seeing any of these guys. It works much better as just a standard action movie. It's often fight scene after fight scene with vampires being killed over and over.There is still much better creativity in this movie than most of the Transformers films. They do at least manage to expand on the vampire mythology. I knew that was the guy who played Daryl from "The Walking Dead"! I personally didn't care for the original Blade movie. I felt this was better as I was more accustomed to the setting and it didn't feel like they were just repeating stuff. Dozens of better superhero movies exist now, but as an early film, this wasn't half bad. I admit some of the effects don't hold up that well. ***

Movie Review: "Blade II" (2002)The successor to an ultra-dark "Blade" starring Wesley Snipes as the title-given "Daywalker" directed by Stephen Norrington comes along with highly-motivated 37-year-old director Guillermo del Toro getting presented with plain evolutionary script to "Dark Universe" niche-beginnings of Marvel Studios under contract with Warner Bros. affiliate New Line Cinema, which distributed "The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring" (2001) to major success at the international box office."Blade II" targets a faster-received as consumed moviegoer-group with an justified R-rated picture in which the director receives the production values of an Hollywood production for the first time his career to bring stark-composited digital-imagery-compositions to the silver-screen of movie houses around the world, putting his name as visionary director on the map in favor to producers seeking high-end entertainment for a young adult audience.Action scenes are superb with flavors of science-fiction-horror ingredients, which made the director Guillermo del Toro notorious and famous for competent and professional deliverable, even though in the case of "Blade II" the original writing effort of the director is missed, when star-actor and producing partner Wesley Snipes carries this vampire-action movie alongside sidekicking actor Kris Kristofferson as reprising character Whistler.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Blade II is how Sequels should been made bigger villain, more action and more new things going on in general. Even tho X-Men (2000) brought the Superhero genre some life that stands still into this day with Marvel making billions it was Blade back in 1998 that started something although Critics had a mixed bag response with this film and it's sequel and let's not talk about Trinity. Wesley Snipes as Blade is pure badass he knows how to fight and throw one liners that work and you can see why that works the film is directed by the very talented Guillermo del Toro director of Hellboy & Hellboy 2: The Golden Army so you can see that the film works pretty fine and Luke Goss was a pretty good bad guy. Blade 2 is very underrated and as you might not know is better than the first movie.