Blade II

"Faster. Sharper. Deadlier."

2002 1h 57m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 5,440

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Synopsis

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Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

“Faster. Sharper. Deadlier.”

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Cast

Wesley Snipes
Blade
Kris Kristofferson
Whistler
Ron Perlman
Reinhardt
Leonor Varela
Nyssa
Norman Reedus
Scud
Thomas Kretschmann
Damaskinos
Luke Goss
Nomak
Matt Schulze
Chupa

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: David S. Goyer, Jason Brubaker, Leo Duranona
Languages: Czech, Romanian, English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $54M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Czech, Romanian, English.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Blade Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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268+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Gabriel Beristain. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Marco Beltrami. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter Amundson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Guillermo del Toro directs. Gabriel Beristain behind the camera. Marco Beltrami scores. Peter Amundson cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Czech, Romanian, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $54M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released 24 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Czech, Romanian, English.
4Part of the "Blade Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5268+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Gabriel Beristain. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Marco Beltrami. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Peter Amundson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson and Ron Perlman carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Faster. Sharper. Deadlier.".
11IMDB entry: tt0187738 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 17 themes, including "martial arts", "mutation", "vampire", "lasersight".
13Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Gabriel Beristain
Original score: Marco Beltrami
Editing: Peter Amundson
Production design: Carol Spier
Costume design: Wendy Partridge
Makeup / hair: Nikita Rae
VFX supervisor: Terry Bradley
Sound: Scott Martin Gershin
Stunt coordinator: Pavel Cajzl
Runtime: 117 min · 1h 57m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $54,000,000
Box office: $155,010,032
Return: 287% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Blade II (2002)

Part of

Blade Collection

Blade is a film franchise based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Wesley Snipes as Blade, the half-human/half-vampire who is possessed with the same powers as his bloodsucking brethren, but without the weaknesses that can destroy them. Acting as a modern day Van Helsing, Blade sets out to foil plans by a legion of the undead to wipe out mankind.

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tmdb440066252019-03-09
★ 8/10
Blade II is the perfect marriage of fanboy and filmmaker. Everything you'd want out of a Blade movie - gore, martial arts, gunplay, clever quips, and techno music - is here to the nth degree. Best of all, it's filmed and choreographed with absolute mastery (thanks Donnie Yen!) Guillermo del Toro never forgets to include his more artistic side. Detailed creature anatomy, amazing creature design, an understanding of where to put the camera, and great characters. It's all here. Blade II is an incredible action picture and even though some of the CGI looks dated (it really just adds to the charm), Blade II is as exhilarating today as it was in 2002.
Gimly2019-08-25
★ 8/10
The second piece of this vampire hunter trilogy blurs the lines between Action, Super Hero and Horror, which personally I'm kinda liking. This time around, Blade (Wesley Snipes; New Jack City, Chaos), Abraham Whistler (Planet of the Ape, Provinces of Night) and new arrival Scud (Norman Reedus; The Boondock Saints, Pandorum) must team up with the Blood Pack, made up of Dieter Reinhardt (Ron Perlman; Hellboy, Outlander), Nyssa Damaskinos (Hell Ride, Wrong Turn at Tahoe), Chupa (Matt Schulze; The Transporter, The Fast and the Furious), Asad (Danny-John Jules; Red Dwarf, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), Snowman (Donnie Yen; IP Man, Highlander: Endgame), Verlaine (Marit Kile; Doctors, Blue Murder), Priest (Tony Curran; The Midnight Meat Train, Underworld: Evolution), and Lighthammer (Daz Crawford; Hammer of the Gods, Game Over) in order to defeat UberVamp Jared Nomak (personal favourite Luke Goss; Death Race 2, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Tekken) and his army of Reaper Strain Vampires. With me so far? No? Then go watch the damn movie! It's very fucking good. The opening is almost as strong as the original, and pretty much everything else about it is better. Not to mention the fact that I'm a total Luke Goss fanboy. All of the characters are so much better. They interact and everything. And even though Wesley Snipes has never really impressed me as an actor, the character of Blade was a little less cheesy, which always helps, and basically just better all 'round. SPOILERS FOR BLADE, BLADE II and TRINITY: An interesting point, without ruining anything about the trilogy is that in all three films, vampires fight vampires. Not in the whole "Blade's half a vampire so he kills full-on vampires" way, although there is most certainly that, but in Blade, Frost kills the Elder vampires to become La Magra. In Blade II, The Blood Pack and Blade team up to take down a new, much more dangerous breed of vampires. And in Trinity, Dracula goes around killing vampires, pretty much for fun. Just food for thought. I've never read the comics much myself, so I don't really know if that's something that's been going on for a while, or if it just turned out that way. There were a couple of lame bits. Some very stupid lines like "they took all of our weapons. Even your sword." Even your sword! Man, the single weapon for which you were named after that has killed more vampires than any other thing on the planet, and the vampires took it away from you? The audacity! And there's this whole thing where Whistler is alive again, they went most of the way to explaining it, and then sort of forgot. It would have been so simple to have a four second flashback cover the lot of it. Oh well. Still though, I'm very, very fond of this one. 77% -Gimly
The Movie Mob2023-02-11
★ 8/10
Blade II is more than just a good Blade or comic book movie. It's one of the best vampire films of the last 20 years. Blade II was a significant step up for the Blade franchise (and, unfortunately, the trilogy's peak) with a much more experienced director and a unique and exciting premise. This time the vampires are the prey and are desperate to survive the growing horde of vampire zombies, desperate enough to side with their sworn enemy, Blade, in hopes of surviving this plague. Both Blade and Blade: Trinity placed inexperienced directors at the helm, but Blade II put experienced horror and creature director Guillermo del Toro in charge, and the result was outstanding! Blade II has the most horror influence of the trilogy and the best story. Del Toro's involvement in all three films might have saved the series, but instead, we got the all-out action letdown of Blade: Trinity. Wesley Snipes was a perfect choice for Blade, and surrounding him with a cast that included Ron Pearlman, Tony Curran, and Donnie Yen (all experienced in the genre and with action) makes Blade II a top-notch vampire action comic book film.