Blade (1998 film)
1998
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Mar 22, 2002 · Blade II: Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela. Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
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- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Guillermo del Toro
- 2002-03-22
May 20, 2023 · Blade II - The Sewer Mission: Verlaine (Marit Velle Kile) realizes that Lighthammer (Daz Crawford) has turned into a Reaper.BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.vudu.c...
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Aug 30, 2013 · Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires. It is the sequel of the first film Blade...
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May 12, 2023 · Blade returns to take on one of the coolest and creepiest variants of vampires in movie history. Blade II is bigger, badder, and bloodier...making it one of ...
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Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks / Blade: A half-vampire "daywalker" (a Dhampir) who hunts vampires. Wesley Snipes stated that while such a character is not going to have much emotional depth, he also...Kris Kristofferson as Abraham Whistler: Blade's human mentor and weaponsmith.Following the success of the original film, New Line and Marvel made plans for a sequel in 1999. Goyer had planned to use Morbius but Marvel wanted to keep the character for a franchise of his own. Goyer compared the story to The Dirty Dozen. Guillermo del Toro was hired to direct Blade II by New Line production president Michael De Luca after Step...
A soundtrack to the film was released on March 19, 2002 through Immortal Records and Virgin Records, and which featured collaborations between hip hop artists and electronic artists. This soundtrack appeared on four different Billboard charts, reaching number 26 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two singles: "Child of the Wild West" and "Mind What Y...
Home media
The New Line Platinum Series DVD contains several deleted scenes including a flashback sequence showing Blade's first meeting with Whistler, a music video for "Child Of The Wild West", performed by west coast hip-hop group Cypress Hill and featuring drum and bass performer Roni Sizein the DVD Special Features on disc-2, VHS Capture and theatrical trailer. A Blu-ray version was released in 2012.
Box office
Blade II was released on March 22, 2002. This was during a period of the year (months March and April) considered to be a bad time for sequels to be released. Despite this, the film became the highest-grossing film of the Blade series, making $80 million in the United States and $150 million worldwide. In its opening weekend, the film earned $32,528,016 from 2,707 theaters but dropped 59% of its earnings in its second week, which brought in $13.2 million. The intake is believed to be affected...
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 57% based on 150 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus reads: "Though Blade II offers more of what worked in the original, its plot and character development appear to have been left on the cutting room floor." On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade of "B+" on...
Video game
A video game Blade II was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xboxon September 3, 2002. Reviews were generally negative.
Sequel
A sequel, Blade: Trinity, was released in 2004.
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Synopsis. A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that ...
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Blade II is a 2002 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Blade, directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by David S. Goyer. A sequel to Blade (1998), it is the second installment in the Blade franchise, followed by Blade: Trinity. The film follows the human-vampire hybrid Blade in his continuing effort to protect humans ...
