Blade II

Som vampyr- och skräckfilm i 2000-talet är Blade 2 en acceptabel företrädare, som säkert skrämmer en och annan i publiken att blunda.

Popcorn nonsense for sure, but shot with a wit, skill and understanding of its audience all too rarely seen in the genre. Strong stomachs will go away delightfully nourished.

Blade II is a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons.

What first seems like a cut-and-dry moral dilemma becomes an awesome, cautionary tale against cultural homogenization.

As overt and metaphorical as the film’s race politics are, they remain complex.