6. Blade II (2002)
Prior to 1998, comic-book film adaptations looked like they had bitten the dust court courtesy of the neon-coated, nipple sporting debacle that was Joel Schumacher's attempt at Batman but all that changed with the R-rated release of Blade. It was bloody, action packed and great fun. Four years later Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro took the reins and let his imagination run wild as he stamped his own vision on Blade's world. In came the Bloodpack, a magnificent seven style group of vamps, a new enemy in the Reapers and more viscera and entrails than a butcher's shop. Wesley Snipes excels as the half-human, half-vampire and the fight scenes are such astonishing acts of pace and agility you almost feel sorry for the 'suckheads', Two years later, Blade:Trinity was released. Gone were the Bloodpack, gone were the Reapers and gone was Del Toro. What was left was Dracula, a terrible script, generic direction and Triple H with a pet pomeranian. Audiences were left preferring a stake in the nether regions to another minute of Blade:Trinity.
Trilogy Low Point: Blade: Trinity. Only Ryan Reynolds and a great insult worth praising. Otherwise its a c*ck-juggling, thunder**** of a mess.
Did you Know?... There are some grotesque characters in the House Of Pain sequence but things could have gone to a whole new level of WTF were it not for scheduling conflictsMichael Jackson was originally going to have a cameo as a Vampire pimp. Is that casting too weird or too perfect? You decide.