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Avg. Critic Score: 52 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    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 | Roger Ebert

    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
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    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

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    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

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    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

  • 60
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    May be too grisly to extend its appeal beyond its fan base. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    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

  • 10
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    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

  • 0
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Duller than first version. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Icky, bloody vampire sequel.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has intense gore, which falls just on this side of a slasher film. All kinds of decapitations, bloodletting, tracheotomies, etc., are inflicted on various human-like beings. Although the vampires combust in a cloud of sparks when killed, it comes too late to avoid seeing brains, hearts and tendons, and oceans of blood. Blade, at one point, gets strapped to an impalement table, which shoots spikes through various limbs and organs. There is also a scene of horrible vampire self-mutilation. Even by action-movie standards, it is very graphic. Characters use strong language and there are sexual situations. Interestingly, in the original Blade, the vampires were a rainbow nation of evil with many different ethnic groups represented, but in Blade II, there are two ethnic vampires on Blade's hit-squad, but none in the crowd scenes, or as antagonists.
  • Families can talk about the movie's themes of betrayal and loyalty. For what it's worth, Blade is a black superhero. He calls the shots, is never condescended to, and shows loyalty, courage and integrity. Parents may want to discuss the nature of wish-fulfillment, and the way violence and problem-solving are conflated in the movies versus the way they interact in real life.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Intense peril and violence Intense peril
  • sex false3 Sex: Sexual references and situations
  • language false5 Language: Very strong language
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drug use
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