Blade II [Blu-ray]

Director: Guillermo del Toro, Wesley Snipes, Peter Frankfurt, Patrick Palmer

Overview

Four years after scoring a box-office touchdown with Blade (1998), actor Wesley Snipes returns to portray the Marvel Comics character again in this sequel that teams him with Mexican horror director Guillermo del Toro. A half-vampire, half-human hybrid, Blade (Snipes) is a merciless vampire hunter bent on destroying the bloodsuckers that feed on humanity. The keys to Blade's success are a serum that allows him to resist the urge for blood and an array of inventive, deadly weapons, both of which were once supplied by his mentor, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson). Since Whistler's death, Blade has relocated to Prague and recruited the pot-smoking slacker Scud (Norman Reedus) to take the place of his father figure, but then he discovers that Whistler's not dead after all: He's been infected with the vampire virus. Reunited with Whistler, Blade is dealt an even bigger surprise: His greatest enemy, vampire leader Damaskinos (Thomas Kretschmann), wants to make peace with him. It seems that the vampires are facing a greater threat than Blade and hope to persuade him to fight the Reapers, a mutated super-race of vampires on a rampage of murder, indiscriminately killing both humans and their fellow bloodsuckers while sucking their victims dry. Blade agrees to a truce and joins the Bloodpack, an elite squad of commandos originally formed to fight Blade himself. Soon, the vampire soldiers discover that the virus responsible for creating their enemies is spreading rapidly and can be traced back to a mysterious "Patient Zero." Blade 2 (2002) co-stars Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, Donnie Yen, and Matt Schulze.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/10/2012
UPC:	0794043141461
Original Release:	2002
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	19,722

Special Features

Audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro ; Director's notebook; Audio commentaries by director Guillermo del Toro & producer Peter Frankfurt and Wesley Snipes & writer David S. Goyer; The blood pact; Deleted/alternate scenes; Music video - Cypress Hill and Roni Size; Art gallery; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Wesley Snipes	Blade
Kris Kristofferson	Abraham Whistler
Ron Perlman	Reinhardt
Leonor Varela	Nyssa
Norman Reedus	Scud
Thomas Kretschmann	Elder Eli Damaskinos
Luke Goss	Jared Nomak
Matt Schulze	Chupa
Danny John-Jules	Assad
Donnie Yen	Snowman
Karel Roden	Kounen
Marit Velle Kile	Verlaine
Tony Curran	Priest
Daz Crawford	Lighthammer
Santiago Segura	Rush
Xuyen Tu Valdivia	Jigsaw
Marek Vasut	Golem
Paul Kasey	Blood Bank Guard/Reaper
Andrea Miltner	Blood Bank Nurse
Ladislav Beran	Drug Dealer
Jiri Sieber	Blood Bank Guard
Bridge Markland	Vampire With Exposed Spine
Jamie Wilson	Reaper
Stuart Luis	Reaper
Mario Wild	Reaper
Tomas Bohm	Reaper
Zdenek Bubak	Reaper
Jan Loukota	Reaper
Jan Bursa	Reaper
Petr Krusalnicky	Reaper
Rey-Phillip Santos	Actor
Karel Vavrovec	St. Cloud
Jaroslav Peterka	Choad
Milos Kulhavy	Little G
Ivan Mares	Tea Bag
Lennox Brown	Man in London Porno Shop
Andre Hyde-Braithwaite	Young Blade
Luke Gross	Actor
Jan Malik	Reaper
Ladislav Mohyla	Reaper
Samuel Le Bian	Jigsaw
Marek Va?ut	Golem
Jan R?vai	Reaper
Karel V?vrovec	St. Cloud
Pete Lee-Wilson	Reaper / Blood Bank Doctor
Sanaa Lathan	Vanessa Brooks (uncredited)
Norman Reeduss	Actor
Marco Beltrami	Composer
Danny Saber	Composer
Buck Sanders	Composer

Technical Credits

David S. Goyer

Marv Wolfman

Gene Colan

Guillermo Del Toro

David S. Goyer	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Nick Allder	Special Effects
Avi Arad	Executive Producer,Producer
Nancy Bishop	Casting
Michael De Luca	Producer
Clay Fontenot	Stunts
Nancy Foy	Casting
Peter Frankfurt	Producer
Lynn Harris	Executive Producer,Producer
Stan Lee	Executive Producer
Patrick J. Palmer	Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Wesley Snipes	Producer,Stunts
Jeff Ward	Stunts
Jeremy Zimmerman	Casting
Clayton J. Barber	Stunts
Toby Emmerich	Producer,Executive Producer
Robert Bernacchi	Producer
Juan Carlos Vargas	Special Effects
Lance Gilmer	Special Effects
Anthony Ray Herrera	Special Effects
Roman Holub	Special Effects
Michaela Dvorska	Stunts
Marv Wolfman	Screenwriter
Gene Colan	Screenwriter
Michael DeLuca	Executive Producer
Spectral Motion Incorporated	Special Effects
Guillermo Del Toro	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

1/2
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.