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NUMBERS
Box Office: $81,645,152
VHS Rentals: $10,470,000
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CONSENSUS
Blade 2 takes what works in the original and gives us more. Unfortunately, plot and character development have to be left on the cutting room floor.
CAST & CREW
Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
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SYNOPSIS
In Guillermo del Toro's BLADE II, Wesley Snipes reprises his role as the part-human, part-vampire superhero based on the comic book character. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for strong pervasive violence, language, some drug use and sexual content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 57 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 22, 2002
Video: Aug 30, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
New Line Cinema
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Horror, Vampires, Supernatural, Violence
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Blade 2: Bloodhunt Site
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 "Del Toro has done the impossible and made vampires scary again."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"If villainous vampires are your cup of blood, Blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"The film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings, but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission...if "gory mayhem" is your idea of a good time."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
 "No amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie’s lack of ideas."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Da primeira seqüência de luta à piada que encerra a história, o espectador jamais desgruda os olhos da tela, saindo do cinema com a sensação de que gastou bem seu dinheiro."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"It must be the end of the world: the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring Wesley Snipes."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Almost gags on its own gore."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Blade II has a brilliant director and charismatic star, but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Halfway through, however, having sucked dry the undead action flick formula, Blade II mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary."
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"... Blade II is still top-heavy with blazing guns, cheatfully filmed martial arts, disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Blade II merges bits and pieces from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, James Bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew."
-- Jeff Ryan, KATRILLION.COM
"The sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give Blade fans another look at Wesley Snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"A pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
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"Even when it drags, we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking"
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"It's definitely an improvement on the first Blade, since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"There's plenty of style in Guillermo Del Toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"What makes Blade 2 marginally better than Blade, especially if you thought the first was a hollow spectacle? It has a plot."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Blade II is as estrogen-free as movies get, so you might want to leave your date behind for this one, or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Isn't as sharp as the original...Despite some visual virtues, 'Blade II' just doesn't cut it."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"While we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen, we had no trouble sitting for Blade II."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Rambles on in a disjointed, substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"While the film has its drawbacks, such as big plot holes, too much gore, and no character development, it delivers what films like this are supposed to."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Just a bloody mess."
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
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ROTTEN 43%
Avg. Rating: 6/10 |
"... Blade II is more enjoyable than the original."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"If you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore, you'll see Del Toro has brought unexpected gravity to Blade II."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"The fight scenes are fun, but it grows tedious."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Relieved of the action-stalling expository responsibility that dogs so many movies based on superhero comics, Blade 2 goes straight for the jugular."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"Why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby?"
-- Laura Miller, SALON.COM
"Everything that was right about Blade is wrong in its sequel."
-- Tom Maurstad, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"While the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched Stephen Norrington-directed predecessor, the new script by the returning David S. Goyer is much sillier."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"... del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"It's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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"Vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Blade 2: Bloodhunt" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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