Synopsis
Against an army of Immortals, one warrior must draw first blood.
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
Directed by Stephen Norrington
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
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Wesley Snipes understands how to move and pose in a comic book movie better than any actor in history
Opening with horny writhing youths coating their bodies in blood the MCU could never
BLADE goes insanely hard, aside from dated CG it still holds up pretty well. Such a fun, stylish and over-the-top movie with action sequences that go from badass to downright crazy in scope, it's so gloriously 90's!!! That opening club scene where blood rains from the ceiling is one of the coolest scenes in comic book movie.
Wesley Snipes absolutely owns this character. He talks like a superhero, moves like a superhero and fights like a superhero. It's hard to imagine anyone more perfectly suited to play this character than him.
funny how shakespeare has been silent ever since "some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill" was written
It’s nice knowing there’ll never be a cooler superhero moment than Blade smoothly decapitating a vampire and catching his shades in mid-air while some thumping techno music starts playing. Also it’s snowing in the final scene so this is basically a Christmas movie.
Nothing in the modern MCU has ever been as cool as Wesley Snipes screaming "motherfucker are you out of your damn mind?" after getting shot up by a pair of scared shitless hospital cops. The GOAT.
I love how the cool vampires at the cool vampire party are watching Mortal Kombat 1995 on VHS
"Whoa, is that Blade? Blade is friggin' cool."
Cannot believe I hadn't seen this before now. Such a relentlessly cool movie that starts with a fucking bang, with absolutely no pretense of needing you to understand who Blade is or "get on his side" or whatever. And thank god– origin stories are boring! I'm perfectly fine to get on your hero's side just because he looks cool as shit!
Not super interested in comparing this to a modern Marvel movie because a) boring boring boring, sick of taking a stance on the MCU in all tangentially-related media, like a political compass b) impossible to do without also discussing the drastically different environments for making entertainment in 2022 and 1998. That…
absolutely obsessed with the way this movie will cut the score, the camera will push in, and Wesley Snipes will deliver a line like "some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" as if that a) contextually makes sense or b) is a devastating zinger, and yet the movie's conviction is so absolute that it's somehow both.
Legendary stuff.