Some sequels can't hold their ground, but "Blade 2" is in many ways better than the first movie.
The brisk and cold attitude of Blade in the first movie, and the lack of real character development were drawbacks to the first, which made people love it or hate it.
"Blade 2" removes the possibility of dislike from many people with its stunning visual effects, fight scenes and increased personality on the character of Blade himself. The creators really begin to build upon the character they have presented to us in the original film, and have taken his personality and our view of it as audience members to a new and different level.
We see a funnier Blade, played by Wesley Snipes, that hangs out with a newer, younger partner named Scud, who has tried to take the role of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), Blade's mentor, who was lost at the end of the first movie. Scud (Norman Reedus) is a pot-smoking machinist who has a knack for gadgetry and a love of cartoons.
As the audience catches up to Blade, there is a new type of creature on the loose, which hunts vampires as well as humans and cannot be readily defeated by traditional means of killing a vampire. Blade is searching for Whistler as the audience first comes upon him.
The audience finds out that though Whistler tried to kill himself in the first movie after being bitten by vampires, he was in fact unsuccessful and turned into a vampire. The vampires have been torturing him and keeping him alive for the past two years.
Blade finally catches up to him and tries to cure him. After doing this, Blade is approached by the ruling body of the vampires. They seek a truce and want to work with Blade to eliminate this mutual enemy.
This is where Blade meets The Blood Pack, a group of vampires who have been specially training to hunt and destroy Blade; they have instead been given to him to command in search of this menace.
There is a constant friction between Blade and the Pack and with Blade's people but he works as well as possible with them and the audience begins to see another side of Blade, unseen really until now: his loving side. Blade begins to fall in love with a pureblood vampire named Nyssa (Leonor Varela) who is a member of the Blood Pack, daughter of a high ranking elder and an almost equal at arms.
The two find each other feeling things they will not admit until late in the film and the tension and the show of emotion between the two fighters is not forced and flows with good chemistry. After destroying most of the repopulating menace of "Reapers" as they're called, Blade finds he has been duped.
The vampires take himself and his team and they find they have been betrayed since the beginning from a member inside. They find the vampires in fact created the ruse that was the "Reaper" problem in some genetic experimentation.
The final 20 minutes are action packed, hard-hitting and funny in certain parts where WWF moves are used in the midst of a serious fight between Blade and the original "Reaper." Overall this movie has a hard-hitting action packed pace, which is helped by the hard-hitting techno/rap combination soundtrack.
There are heavy techno beats that are used to back hard-hitting rhymes that really add to the movie at the times the particular songs are used. Go see Blade 2 you might like it even if you hated the first, this movie surpasses its previous endeavor and will hit its mark on all counts.
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