It seems like a long time coming for Blade to get the Honest Trailer treatment. In some ways it’s hard to really rag on Blade, at least the first one, since it was groundbreaking and really opened people up to the idea of Marvel releasing a black superhero onto the big screen. Yes, Black Panther is not the first black Marvel superhero to make it to film, but he’s probably going to be a lot bigger than Blade since most people seem to want to pretend that Blade didn’t happen at all. The first movie was great, it came out with a bang, but then kind of fizzled at the end. Even looking at the CGI that was abandoned because it looked too cheesy wasn’t the best step, since I’m sure that something else could have been done that would have made a lot more sense than creating something that looked like a lava lamp shooting out of Stephen Dorff’s severed stump.
The rest of the first film was pretty much okay since the action was great, save for the one on one fighting that will always favor the stronger fighter. Think about it this way, if every vampire in those scenes would have sought to gang-tackle Blade he wouldn’t have stood a chance. But since they came at him one at a time he picked them off like flies. In the second film things were getting a little more realistic since the mutated vampires weren’t waiting their turn to attack, they were coming en masse like a single organism with a hundred different arms to grab hold. One on one only the toughest of them could take Blade on, because you know every vampire knows how to fight and is a martial arts expert. Wait, nope, they broke that mold since Reinhardt and his bunch didn’t possess the same skills levels when it came to fighting. Priest, an ironic name for a vampire, was probably the least skilled among them since he went out first. Only Snowman, played by Donnie Yen, really knew how to get down without a firearm.
Then came the third film and we were given Triple H as a less than believable vampire who liked to soften up his prey before trying to finish them. And you know with Ryan Reynolds that just doesn’t work since he’s the kind of character that will take every advantage you give him. That could be why he was perfect to play the role of Deadpool. But then you go and take Dominc Purcell and make him a brooding, almost sulky version of the vampire originator that has nothing but disdain for his current people and Jessica Biel, whose character could have been an Olympian archer but chose to employ her skills as a vampire hunter instead. So many back stories and so little plot to share between them, oy.
The first film was okay, the second was kind of meh, and the third was a hilarious WTF to the fans. If not for the humor, the third film wouldn’t have been memorable at all.
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