10 Awesome Movies With Disappointing Sequels

Let’s not underestimate the significance of the first Blade movie: after years of comic book duds (Steel, Barb Wire, Batman & Robin) here was a movie that did everything right and more importantly was incredibly successful. It knocked Saving Private Ryan off the #1 slot on its opening weekend, which was enough to convince to convince Fox to pull the trigger on an X-Men movie, and the rest is history.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II isn’t as impressive and lacks the freshness of the original, with villains that start behaving in familiar ways when they begin draining Blade’s blood. Rather than attempt to expand the universe, the movie brings throws in more gunfights and explosions.

Then there’s Blade: Trinity, and talk about going from a scream to a whimper. It’s difficult to say which is more half-hearted: the script, the performances or David Goyer’s direction. It’s basically a trailer for the short-lived Blade: The Series, but as an attempt at “franchicide”, it works just fine.

In fact, the movie was so lame that not long after its release, Wesley Snipes went to jail. They said it was for tax evasion, but we know better.