Film follows path of original script
by Nick Nance, reporter

    A recent trend in movies brings comics alive to the big screen. Blade II, the action-packed follow up to the 1998 hit film Blade, furthers that path.

   Wesley Snipes plays Blade, a half man, half vampire totally consumed with the endless desire to avenge the curse of his birth and save the human race.

   Unknowing humans are thrust to the forefront of a blood-drenched Armageddon involving vampires and a new vicious super-vampire.
Blade’s mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) was presumed dead. Now living in Prague, Blade learns Whistler is alive and sets out to find him.

   Blade’s weapons specialist and father figure has developed a serum that allows Blade to walk in the daylight. Thus, he has all the strengths of a vampire but none of the weaknesses.

   After the pair are reunited, Whistler meets Blade’s new assistant Scud. Scud gets his enjoyment from developing new devices to kill vampires. The unpleasant meeting doesn’t last long.

   Vampire overlord Damascenes (Thomas Kretschmann) asks Blade to help the vampires conquer a deadlier threat than either has faced before. Blade must enter the lair of his sworn enemy.

   Blade is paired up with an elite group of vampires who have trained for the last two years to hunt him. They must work together to stop the Reapers.

   With razor sharp teeth, a never-ending desire for blood and super-human power, the Reapers will overrun the world in less than a month if not stopped. The Reapers’ hunger is not only for humans but also for vampires.

   A mutated form of their vampire predecessors, the Reapers are infiltrating humanity and vampires with the “Reaper Strain,” which would leave thousands of carriers roaming the streets.

   Action-packed fight scenes are spectacular in their realness.

   The hunt for and battle against the Reapers follows a complete circle leading the group back to the most unsuspecting place.

   “Patient Zero,” Jared Nomak (Luke Goss), Blade and the Bloodpack must destroy him before he and the Reapers destroy both races.

   Blade II contains Matrix-like special effects. Snipes and Kristofferson impressively portray vampire killers ridding the world of evil. The scary action-adventure Blade II will be enjoyed by movie lovers of all ages.