| “ | When gunplay, kickboxing, and throat slitting actually feel like breaks in the action, you've got a series with brains as well as teeth.” | |
—Gillian
Flynn, Entertainment Weekly |
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| “ | Blade scores early and often: The samurai-leatherboy-gangbanger-Nazi-Batman-urban guerrilla-cyberpunk is a Christmas tree of kinkys.” | |
—John
Leonard, New York Magazine |
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| “ | Action, suspense and sexy bloodsuckers...” | |
—Robert
Lloyd, Los
Angeles Times |
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| “ | Goyer's whacked-out vampire mythos finally reveals its full potential for lurid fun...Gore and spandex have always gone together like maple syrup and bacon, and a series that lets views pig out without treating them like idiots is never a bad thing.” | |
—Andrew
Johnston, Time
Out New York |
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| “ | ...just the right mix of humor, action and suspense...the best genre show debut since 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' 12 years ago.” | |
—Jerome
Maida , Philadelphia
Daily News |
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| “ | ...there's a compelling, dark beauty and intelligence at the heart of tonight's two-hour premiere...” | |
—Cary
Darling , Star-Telegram |
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| “ | With a gorgeous cast (even — especially? — the dead ones), plenty of cool slow-mo martial arts action, a glorious collection of lethal hardware and an intriguing plot, Blade's got something for the whole family, provided they rank somewhere between the Munsters and the Mansons in sensibility.” | |
—Glenn
Garvin , Miami
Herald |
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| “ | 'Blade: The Series' proves that the Marvel superhero still has plenty of life. The beautifully shot, thrilling pilot has me excited about future episodes...” | |
—Neal
Justin , Star
Tribune |
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| “ | Three
Stars It's bloody good.” |
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—David
Bianculli, New
York Daily News |
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| “ | ...among the most promising sci-fi debuts in recent memory.” | |
—Chauncey
Mabe, Baltimore
Sun |
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| “ | These are hot, well-dressed vampires with hypodermic needles...After all, this is Spike...And the show seems like a good fit.” | |
—Anita
Gates, New
York Times |
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| “ | Jones is...perfectly cast as the supercool vampire hunter.” | |
—Kevin
D. Thompson , Palm
Beach Post |
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| “ | ...it's good. A good plotline, good action, good scary guys--and it's fun to watch... Grade: A” | |
—Maggie, CableWorld |
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| “ | Blade
May Suck You In The solid cast and on-the-mark writing by Goyer...make for a show that will be able to overcome the limitation of television vs. the big screen.” |
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—Victor
Balta, Washington Herald |
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Daywalker
Half human, half
immortal. His only allies are a master weaponsmith and a woman obsessed.
He will stop at nothing to win his war. He is the ultimate vampire hunter.
BLADE