I don’t know why I had some hesitation in revisiting this one. Maybe it was some suspect memories of Blade 2, which I now realize was actually Blade 3 that I was thinkin of, with Deadpool himself. Interesting turn of events, especially after watching Deadpool 3. Nice throwback there. But here? Gotta say, pretty damn solid for an action flick. Involving vampires. It’s those melodrama vampire flicks you really need to just avoid altogether. Especially if they are sparkly vampires. Those are the worst kind. They make you undead, and leave you covered in glitter. You can’t wash that shit out, no matter how hard you try, you still find it everywhere. Insidious fkn glitter.
This is a story about a man named Brady. Shit. No, Bladey. Dammit, And still wrong. Wesley Snipes. Vampire Extra-ordinaire. A bit of an envy in the vampire community, actually. Almost legendary, you could say, being the Daywalker. This is his tale of saving shitloads of puppies from one of those damn puppy mills you never read about anymore. One would think that would be a minor subplot of a movie, but here we are, in a glorious 2-hour runtime of puppies and puppy-tossing and an occasional assho cat, just to gain more audience appeal. It’s rather wholesome, all things considered. And maybe a little bloody.
This predates the major superhero movie glut by quite a few years, and it’s actually nice to see the opening credits not push that Marvel branding, like, at all. It was antithetical back then, the hypothetical cross to a vampire, one could say. So you just have a kick-ass movie with no preconceptions. Well, unless maybe if you read the comic. Wesley Snipes does a great job in the fightings and the fang-filled sneerings, secondaries are all pretty decent playing their parts. But It’s not the Godfather, so yeah, the goods and the bads are pretty stereotypically portrayed. With the basis of a Kick-ass Mofo Hybrid Vampire Ass-Kicker. If you are expecting something different, than watch something different. Norrington did a great job here with the pacing, cinematography, dynamic shots. This is still early CGI days though, so that’s a bit obvious. But damn. What can I say, I dug it, actually made me consider revisting Part 2, directed by Guillermo Del Toro (guess I forgot about that). The icing on the Cake here? Udo Kier!
