Blade (3 Stars)

"There's only one Blade. There's only ever going to be one Blade".

After seeing Blade's re-appearance in "Deadpool & Wolverine", I thought it would be good to return to the original Blade films. I admit that I could hardly remember them, which is always a bad sign. I checked my old posts and saw that I'd given the first film a low rating and the two sequels a high rating. So I watched "Blade" today, hoping I'd change my mind about it.

I didn't. The film has a cheap B-Movie feeling to it. There's a lot of action, but the characters aren't particularly interesting. Even Blade himself is someone I can't relate to. He's cold and heartless. To be fair, that's how he's portrayed in the comics, but it doesn't make him interesting as a character.

There's a certain poignancy to the mother-son relationship. Blade has spent all his life searching for the vampire who killed his mother. Now he finds out that she's still alive, and she's a servant of the vampire who turned her. Blade has to fight his mother to the death. This is something that could have been handled better by a more talented director.

The film's special effects are embarrassingly bad. Was it deliberate?

"Blade" was made in 1998. It can be considered a link between the poor quality direct-to-video Marvel films of the 1980's and the well produced films that began with "X-Men" in 2000. Next I'll have to watch the other two films and see if they really are better.

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