Welcome back to 1998! I don't know what you were doing or if you were even born yet, but at this point I was starting to really get into movies in general and action movies in particular. I was a sophomore in high school so I don't remember if I got to see this in theaters but I bought it on DVD as soon as it was available and I'm pretty sure it's the same disc I've had since then.Vampires are all around us, either as "pure-blood" born vampires or humans who have been turned. One of the latter, a vicious specimen named Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) wants to overturn the conservative hierarchy and rule humans outright. Frost hopes to find a way to do this by translating an ancient vampire prophecy of the Blood God. Meanwhile, Blade the Daywalker (Wesley Snipes), a half-vampire, and his friend Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) are on a mission to destroy all the vampires. He saves the life of a bitten hematologist, Karen (N'Bushe Wright), who then applies her research skills into developing a cure.
This is one of the earliest examples (that I can think of without doing any research whatsoever) of a successful comic book movie. Mostly (again, without research) because nobody treated it like a comic book movie. I don't remember hearing the kind of nerdrage you'd get today over casting or plot. I guess we'll see what kind of reception the inevitable reboot gets, now that Marvel has the character rights once more.
I'm calling it now: Brandon T. Jackson for Blade 2020!
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