BLADE THE SERIES (DVD Review) - 17/2/08

Having seen the extended version of "BLADE: House Of Cthon" and enjoying it; I had high expectations for the rest of the first and only Season, after it was cancelled after 13 episodes. One can see why with this taciturn version of Blade merely doing a re-run of the first Blade film stretched out over a series. Lacking in any style or substance this pale imitation of Blade falls badly by the wayside with little action and no real plot. An attempt to delve deeper into the 12 Houses Of The Great Vampires does not really go far enough; covering nothing of the original mythology or bringing anything new to the table, apart from a couple of standalone episodes that really scrape into the mediocre category at best. Ending on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved this can only be shoved into the archives and forgotten about. With the same Documentary & Commentaries from the House Of Cthon release and a DVD-ROM link to some additional material this is a very poor release to gain some cash from the programme's failure - Catch up with it on Satellite sometime if you must but it doesn't add anything much to the Blade canon.

Blade the Daywalker hunter of vampires extraordinaire continues his mission with the help of a couple of unlikely accomplices (One of them a turned vampire herself) and trundles around the world offing vampires here & there. Getting involved with a plot from one of the Great Houses "The House Of Cthon" Blade finds himself tracking down parts of a puzzle that may just help him in his own crusade.