Blade 2
September 27th, 2006
I’m not sure what I was thinking–I must have rented this Wesley Snipes/Vampire thing to counteract NYFF-induced art house overload, or perhaps to get a better grip on director Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which is showing at the festival and which I liked a lot. Either way, I suppose filmmaking for 12-year-old boys has come a long way–but it’s still filmmaking for 12-year-old boys.
Blade 2. Guillermo del Toro, 2002. *
For the strong of stomach: read Harry Knowles’ infamous Blade 2 review if you dare.
[tags]film, 1 star, action, vampires, guillermo del toro[/tags]
January 27th, 2007 at 2:39 am
[…] Even the Academy has figured out that Pan’s Labyrinth is destined to be a classic (it’s exceedingly rare that anything with subtitles plays at Kaufman Astoria), and so we’ve been digging back through Guillermo Del Toro’s filmography. Hellboy and Blade 2 aren’t as good as the fanboys would have you believe, and my memories of Cronos are pretty hazy–but this film is very, very good on its own terms and obviously a stepping stone to the grander, more archetypal Pan’s Labyrinth. […]