2002 - BLADE 2, sequel to Blade (what else would it be).

Wesley Snipes is back as Eric Brooks aka Blade a sort of half man, half vampire.  This being a sequel to the 1998 film.  In the first film he joined forces with Rhodes Scholar, and Country Music Hall of Famer Kris Kristofferson to kill a bunch of modern day vampires.  In Blade II Snipes and Kristofferson are back this time teamed with a vampire SWAT squad to kill some sort of super vampire.

There's lots of action and unsurprisingly mucho blood spewing everywhere, after all this is a film about vampires. Frankly the story is kind of dumb but what the film has going for it is the director Guillermo Del Toro who gravitates to all this horror movie stuff since he grew up with it.  It doesn't hurt that Wesley Snipes has in real life a 5th degree black belt in karate, he looks like he actually knows how to karate chop super vampires.

 

I guess if you are looking for a film with a lots of action and blood along with those creepy touches that Guillermo Del Toro brings to his films you've found the right film.  Del Toro is a master of this stuff and really keeps the film zipping along from one well done action piece to another.

 

Blade actually started out as part of a comic book series from Marvel and Marvel has  been trying to figure out an approach to remaking the film.  With all the violence in this film the remake has been in "developmental hell" for some time.  Marvel superhero films are extremely family friendly and you can be sure that Mom and Dad aren't about to take little Bobby and Suzie to a film that features super vampires chewing the necks off of their victims.

The film was written by David S. Goyer, the running time is 117 minutes.