Okay--here's the part everybody knows from the trailers. There's a whole bunch of fighting. Vampires vs. CGI werewolves. Characters who wear skin-tight black leather and black dusters and black trenchcoats. And they empty thousands of rounds of ammunition all over the place. And they leap around in slow motion. You know--that Matrix stuff.
Wanna know what they do when they're NOT fighting? Well, they burst through doors. They stalk down corridors with a purpose. They parade up and down staircases. And the soundtrack pounds and pounds as they do it. All sorts of really big, really important stuff. And it's all so "goth," they might as well have filmed the damn thing in black-and-white. 
Story? Yeah, there's one of those, too... the kind that starts at the end of a LONG history. So people can have hallucinatory flashbacks--the kind that snap, crackle and pop rapid-fire in their poor tormented brains while the soundtrack is cranked up yet another notch. There's cross-breeding, familial betrayal, inescapable destiny...
...is there ONE damn thing in here that BLADE II didn't already do much, much better? And don't bother answering "There were no werewolves in BLADE II." I know there weren't. But there were two breeds of vampire, and it's the same damn thing.
Am I THOROUGHLY missing the boat here? This is supposed to be a hot-ticket item? On two screens at the area's biggest theatre? A "no-pass engagement" even at the drive-in?? This is an event? To me, this is right up there with MATRIX RELOADED (not a compliment coming from me). And I'm not sure it's even any better than THE ORDER, for that matter.
Hey--if I'm wrong, and this is one of the best films of the year, then more power to you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm never going to knock you for disagreeing with me.
But what was the last truly great "goth" film you've seen since the days of Hammer, eh?
Your move.
