{"id":33443,"date":"2023-08-10T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33443"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:30:55","slug":"blade-ii-2002-directed-by-guillermo-del-toro-starring-wesley-snipes-and-ron-perlman-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33443","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blade II&#8221; (2002) directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Wesley Snipes and Ron Perlman \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z081023zview_blade2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Blade II <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(2002)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>David S. Goyer <\/strong>based on a character created by <strong>Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Thomas Kretschmann, Luke Goss, Matt Schulze, Danny John-Jules, Donnie Yen, Karel Roden, Tony Curran, Daz Crawford, Samuel Le <\/strong>and<strong> Marek Vasut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> In A World Beyond The One We Know, The Forces Of Darkness Fear One Man&#8230;Blade!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new breed of vampire, called &#8220;Reapers&#8221; have appeared.\u00a0 The Reapers are primitive, mindless killers, with a need for blood. Their bite can mutate both humans and vampires into Reapers.\u00a0 When it becomes clear that the Reapers are targeting vampires, Eli Damaskinos, the Vampire Overlord proposes a truce with Blade.\u00a0 Damaskinos wants Blade to lead his vampire assassins in an effort to wipe out the Reapers.\u00a0 Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the group of vampires originally assembled to kill him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course not all is as it seems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was not a fan of the original <em>Blade<\/em>.\u00a0 I am a huge fan of<em> Blade II<\/em>.\u00a0 I love everything about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got a fun story.\u00a0 The Reapers have a cool design.\u00a0 The vampire team that joins Blade have unique looks and personalities.\u00a0 Wesley Snipes was born to play Blade.\u00a0 Guillermo del Toro understands what makes this type of film work.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve watched <em>Blade II<\/em> multiple times and like a good vampire, it always sucks me in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Blade II <\/em><\/strong>(2002) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z081023zview_blade2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blade II (2002) Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay: David S. 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