Blade 1 isn't just a good super hero flick, it's just an all-around excellent action-horror movie where we have the very rare case of a main "good guy" being more badass and ruthless than the actual villains. It's such a rare anomaly that everything about that film came together perfectly -- Wesley Snipes would leave notes around the set saying that he "was Blade", and they could not have cast better (Michael Jai White also had the skillset to be Blade, but there was a silent menace that Snipes possessed that made him a force to be reckoned with on-screen).
Combined with the sharp cinematography from Theo Van de Sande and that opening scene featuring New Order's awesome acid--fusion-techno, plus choreography that was well ahead of its time, the movie is a real trip that just comes together really well. It's one of the few movies from the 90s that was unapologetically masculine.
Blade 1 isn't just a good super hero flick, it's just an all-around excellent action-horror movie where we have the very rare case of a main "good guy" being more badass and ruthless than the actual villains. It's such a rare anomaly that everything about that film came together perfectly -- Wesley Snipes would leave notes around the set saying that he "was Blade", and they could not have cast better (Michael Jai White also had the skillset to be Blade, but there was a silent menace that Snipes possessed that made him a force to be reckoned with on-screen).
Combined with the sharp cinematography from Theo Van de Sande and that opening scene featuring New Order's awesome acid--fusion-techno, plus choreography that was well ahead of its time, the movie is a real trip that just comes together really well. It's one of the few movies from the 90s that was unapologetically masculine.