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DVD : Blade (New Line Platinum Series)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $14.96 Amazon.com's Price: $5.99 You Save: $8.97 (60%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780780624894 Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780624890 Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 22, 1998 Running Time: 120 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1998 Sales Rank: 5665 MPN: TRNDN4709D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Wesley Snipes plays a half-mortal, half-immortal charged with ridding the earth of a race of vampires led by Stephen Dorff in this action-packed blockbuster. DVD Features: Alternate endings Audio Commentary Featurette Music Only Track Production Sketches Theatrical Trailer Amazon.com: The recipe for Blade is quite simple; you take one part Batman, one part horror flick, and two parts kung fu and frost it all over with some truly campy acting. What do you get? An action flick that will reaffirm your belief that the superhero action genre did not die in the fluorescent hands of Joel Schumacher. Blade is the story of a ruthless and supreme vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) who makes other contemporary slayers (Buffy et al.) look like amateurs. Armed with a samurai sword made of silver and guns that shoot silver bullets, he lives to hunt and kill "Sucker Heads." Pitted against our hero is a cast of villains led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a crafty and charismatic vampire who believes that his people should be ruling the world, and that the human race is merely the food source they prey on. Born half-human and half-vampire after his mother had been attacked by a blood-sucker, Blade is brought to life by a very buff-looking Snipes in his best action performance to date. Apparent throughout the film is the fluid grace and admirable skill that Snipes brings to the many breathtaking action sequences that lift this movie into a league of its own. The influence of Hong Kong action cinema is clear, and you may even notice vague impressions of Japanese anime sprinkled innovatively throughout. Dorff holds his own against Snipes as the menacing nemesis Frost, and the grizzly Kris Kristofferson brings a tough, cynical edge to his role as Whistler, Blade's mentor and friend. Ample credit should also go to director Stephen Norrington and screenwriter David S. Goyer, who prove it is possible to adapt comic book characters to the big screen without making them look absurd. Indeed, quite the reverse happens here: Blade comes vividly to life from the moment you first see him, in an outstanding opening sequence that sets the tone for the action-packed film that follows. From that moment onward you are pulled into the world of Blade and his perpetual battle against the vampire race. --Jeremy Storey Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Blade DVDLove this movie, it definitely stands the test of time. Great action, and pure Snipes! Rating: - The Best Thing to Happen to Vampire Movies Since "Dracula!"Actor & producer Wesley Snipes may have finally found himself an action movie franchise that he can sink his teeth into with British director Stephen Norrington's "Blade," a well-made, imaginative, adrenaline-laced vampire chiller based on the Marvel Comics' super hero. Last seen in "U.S. Marshals," Snipes heads up a first-rate cast that includes Kris Kristofferson, Stephen Dorff, N' Bushe Wright, Udo Kier, and Traci Lords. "Blade" synthesizes the exotic swordplay of the "Highlander" epics, the ... Read More Rating: - "The world you live in is a sugar-coated topping. There is another world - beneath it..."Up until 1998 comic book movies were a joke. Sometimes they had some campy charm and were marginal successes but aside from the Michael Keaton Batman film in 1989 none of them had been all of that good. Even with that movie's fame, the successive films did their best to kill all of the best parts of that franchise until everyone's memories had been sullied by the horrors of the sequals. Marvel had a particularly hard time releasing its products to film and its two successes up to 1998, The Punisher ... Read More Rating: - Classic Movie! One of my favorite films of all times!Blade shows you what a true vampire movie is really about. Its not one of those original classic vampire tales. Its new. People who hate this movie should stick with the original tales of vampires and leave this film for others that want to open they're minds about what vampires can possibly really do. The movie is about a half human half vampire name Blade that has all the vampire's strangths and none of they're weaknesses. the plot is that Blade's mother got bitten by a vampire while being pregnant ... Read More Rating: - Super Campy Fun....I've been doing my own reading and retrospective on vampires over the last couple of weeks after seeing "I am Legend" with Will Smith. So I decided to go back to the iconic source. Having not read Dracula in years, I decided to read it again and began by comparing it to the contemporary (1992) movie version...Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" starring Gary Oldman. When I initially read the story as a child, I focused more on my stereotyped "Dracula as performed by Bella Lugosi" and not Stoker's original ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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