Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
52
(28 sources)
52
(28 sources)
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90
Washington Post
To appreciate the movie, you have to be okay with vampire violence. I don't mean subtle little nips at the neck and, ooooh, it's directed by Werner Herzog. Read Full Review » -
88
Chicago Sun-Times
You can sense the difference between a movie that's a technical exercise ("Resident Evil") and one steamed in the dread cauldrons of the filmmaker's imagination. Read Full Review » -
80
Los Angeles Times
Like the original, Blade II has superior production values and visual and special effects. Snipes and Kristofferson build on the resonance of their original portrayals. Read Full Review » -
80
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78
Austin Chronicle
Invades theatres with its fangs bared for action. It's bloody hell and we love every minute. Read Full Review » -
75
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70
The New York Times
Because of the movie's wonderful shamelessness, its mordantly funny chills and fights are huge turn-ons. A B picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness. Read Full Review » -
70
Film Threat
The drawing card for Blade II is -- the promise of a blood-soaked action/horror thrill ride, and Snipes and Del Toro get the down-and-dirty job done with style. Read Full Review » -
70
New Times (L.A.)
Just be advised guys, Blade II is as estrogen-free as movies get, so you might want to leave your date behind for this one, or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time. Read Full Review » -
70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Everything "Blade" should have been but wasn't: stylish, fast-paced, and comfortable with its own ridiculousness. Read Full Review » -
67
Entertainment Weekly
Del Toro lays on the operatic head-trip gore, but his heavy-handed embrace of the ''Blade'' mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a performance than he did in the first film. Read Full Review » -
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Though superior to the original Blade, the superiority is mostly in the myriad ways the "suck-head" enemies can be blown up, melted and dismembered. Read Full Review » -
63
Charlotte Observer
What makes Blade 2 marginally better than "Blade," especially if you thought the first was a hollow spectacle? It has a plot. Read Full Review » -
63
ReelViews
The film stays true to its unpretentious origins -- it's like a comic book come to life, with an undeniable visual flair, a lot of kinetic action sequences, minimal character development, and a plot that could charitably be called "uneven". Read Full Review » -
60
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50
Salon.com
Suffers from way too many fight scenes that last way too long and look way too computer-generated. Read Full Review » -
50
USA Today
Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around, though emotionally, it's closer to dead than undead. Blade II is for the horror faithful only; others will be grasping their crucifixes. Read Full Review » -
50
New York Post
Much sillier - and the movie's nearly two-hour running time seems to last nearly as long as a vampire's afterlife. Read Full Review » -
50
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42
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40
TV Guide
The sequences are handsomely designed, but frankly, you might as well be watching someone play a video game. Read Full Review » -
38
New York Daily News
Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story. Read Full Review » -
38
Boston Globe
It was possible to hope that Blade II would turn out to be good. Well, forget it. Read Full Review » -
38
Chicago Tribune
Against the rest of his dramatically flimsy crew, Snipes' sunglasses-at-midnight strut conveys an almost lifelike sheen. Almost. He's more alive than the movie, which is dead on arrival. Read Full Review » -
30
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25
Baltimore Sun
So witless it wins most of its laughs when Czech-speaking characters spout obscenities that get translated into English subtitles. Read Full Review » -
10
Wall Street Journal
The big news in Blade II is that there's something worse than vampires, but is there something worse than Blade II? Read Full Review » -
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