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Blade Review
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Sucks!!!!
Herc’s Seen Spike’s BLADE!!
I am – Hercules!!
If you liked the kickboxing in TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but could do without all the witty plotting, rich characterization and comic acumen, “Blade: The Series” might be the series for you.
On the day the cinemas welcome the superb “Superman Returns” (for my money the finest Superman-centric filmed entertainment ever forged), the little screen brings us another returning comic-book superhero. “Blade: The Series,” based on the Marvel comic about a half-vampire vampire slayer, was created by David Goyer, the fellow who wrote the first two “Blade” movies, then wrote and directed the even shittier third. Goyer also created CBS' monstrously inept (and quickly cancelled) extraterrestrial saga "Threshold."
For those who thought a Marvel superhero series could never produce characters as listless and uninspired as the ones who populated “Mutant X,” this venture could leave you unpleasantly surprised.
It turns out a TV-size budget - and a grunty rap artist named Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones pinch-staking for Wesley Snipes - do a profoundly wobbly franchise no favors. It’s pretty dull going, and shockingly so for a show about fight-happy Detroit-dwellers with superpowers.
One key flaw is the pilot insists on treating its audience as if “Lost Boys,” “Near Dark,” “Salem’s Lot,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Buffy” and “Angel” were never televised in the United States. The mystery plot is pokey and cliché-happy. (The hour’s biggest surprise arrives not with a story or character reveal, but when the heroine greets a bit of low-rent mayhem with an unbleeped exclamation of “Holy shit!”) The jokes – if you dare call them that – are uniformly terrible. Some of the leads are pretty - but challenged when called upon to emote. Randy Quaid – playing an obligatory vampire expert considerably less expertly than did Anthony Stewart Head - isn’t as hideously miscast here as he was in “Pluto Nash,” but he’s improbably close.
You’d think a channel that calls itself “Spike” might know better.
But what matters Herc’s opinion?
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