Blade (1998) (Platinum Edition)

IT WAS THE BEST FILM YET

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 10, 1999 | 1 out of 1 found this Blade (1998) review helpful

BETTER THEN TO DUSK TO DAWN WESLEY ACTED GOOD IN BLADE

The Best Movie of 1998!!!!!!!!!!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 7, 2000 | 1 out of 2 found this Blade (1998) review helpful

This movie was exciting and action packed that made it so I want to see the sequal very bad.

This one slices and dices...

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 31, 2004

Pros: Very impressive sound track and story line...

Cons: Perhaps a bit long...

When I first read about Blade I was a bit skeptical. There are just too many blood and guts movies out there, and I was afraid this might be just one more. But I took a chance, based on a couple of reviews I'd read, and must say I was most pl...eased. The story centers around Blade, the title character played by Wesley Snipes. Blade is half-human, half-vampire and tortured by the anguish his two sides cause him. His sole reason for existence is to search out and destroy a race of vampires that is living among us humans and intending to take over the Earth. From the opening scenes of the movie the viewer is taken through a breathtaking series of events that is relentless and perfectly paced. Snipes is well cast as the hunter who uses both high-tech weaponry as well as a lethal sword he carries on his back. The special effects work well, as does the pounding sound track. And if you like martial arts, you'll simply love this movie. There is a great deal of bloodletting and gore, yet like another of my favorties, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, this movie does it quite stylistically. The result is a very good escape from reality for a couple of hours. I was impressed enough that I'm going to buy the sequel, Blade II. Read more Less

The best vamp movie

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 28, 2003

Blade is the best movie i have seen in a long time. They make it look so real.No one but wesley snipes could have done it better same goes for S.Dorff as Decan Frost.

#1 Vampire Movie

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 11, 2003

This is Wesley Snipes best movie ever.It has awesome stunts and a great storyline.I reccomend this movie to everyone.Vampire fan or not you'll love it.Just so you know Blade 2 is a horrible movie.

Better than the Comic

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 10, 2003

As a Comic book character he wasnt that cool, as a live movie action hero he is!

if sanaa lathan is in it then its excell

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 7, 2003

samething we want sanaa lathan shes an great actress

a 1st a2nd a 3rd

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 6, 2003

did anyone here wesley gonna play in blade 3 ohhh this movie ruled it kicked some serious @$$ s#^! this one of the best movies i have ever seen

tops flashier & gorier sequel

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 27, 2002

Blade (1998)Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue Director: Stephen Norrington Producers: Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Bob Engelman, Avi Arad Writer: David S. Goyer Distributor: New Line Plot: ...A dark hero emerges through the pages of Marvel and onto the big screen- Blade also known as the daywalker- a half human, half vampire force. He possesses all of the strengths of the vampires, but none of their weaknesses except the need for blood. When an aggressive vampire leader Deacon Frost designs a plan to sabotage Blade and become the mighty Blood God, Blade must stop him before its too late. But it won't be too easy, Frost has his own unit of skilled vampires ready to stop Blade at all costs- or so he thought. Review: I remember watching this movie when it first came on video, I just didn't like the original trailer I saw for Blade very much. Add in the fact that Marvel had not ever made a successful comic- to movie hero... Spawn was released a year earlier and I was sort of disappointed the way that turned out. The critics bashed this one to death along with the sequel, I guess they can't handle dark movies, probably 90% of critics don't understand the horror genre either. So when I finally did saw Blade and I realized it was something special, sure enough it was. A sequel followed up to in four years, but enough talk about the second installment I will give you the best opinion on Blade I have. The movie is a action/horror and its filled with lots of violence, guns, rude language, and a fair amount of gore. In the beginning of the film, some dude is going to a party and he is walking through a meat factory. Sure enough its not just any regular party but a whole lair of vampires are there waiting to feast on blood- there is an actual sprinkler system set-up too. The best entrance to a movie I've ever seen then happens, Blade makes his presence known and shows of all the nice shiney weapons too... weapons galore. Sure enough Blade wipes out a good amount of bloodsuckers at the party and the vampire nations start becoming worried. Frost is running quote "wild" parties that are getting out of hand, but he is a rebel and doesn't listen. Blade has been following Frost for several years but he still hasn't gotten to him yet. Blade's sidekick in the movie is a man in his late 50's called Whistler, he and Blade set up a whole facility (in a vast empty building) dedicated just for hunting vampires. The facility is their home, and its Blade's life: by taking out each vampire he makes some avengeance for his mother being bitten and his own infection. The movie drags somewhat until the vampires take Dr. Jensen hostage and kill off Whistler, or so everyone thought. Blade wants redemption for his sidekick being killed (in which we are fooled) so he goes where Frost is planning a rise of the Blood God in a vaccant building, Frost needs Blade's blood so he makes the daywalker come to him. All of the sudden all havoc breaks lose, Blade arrives full force in his motorcycle and starts kicking more @$%. There is a security breach and quickly Frost realizes Blade has arrived he arrives with a group of guards and they pummel the daywalker to the ground. The vampires with Frost then force Blade into a device to draw his blood, he is rescued shortly by Dr. Jensen and goes to stop Frost. But he arrives too late, Frost is ulmightly and nearly invinceable, a final showdown insues with both of their tite swords. And it evenutally ends with Blade kicking capsules of serum into Frost's head, its almost like the writers ran out of ideas to kill him off. He turns into a big red mess and literally explodes! The ending sets up the beginning to the sequel, well not exactly. If you want a good action/horror movie not to take too seriously I think this would be a good pick, Blade is a guilty pleasure.Overall rating: 8/10 Read more Less