Movie #328 - Judgment Night

Judgment Night
1993 - Rated R - 1 hr 50 min
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr, Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, Peter Greene

Four friends go out for a night of fun and accidentally witness a murder.  Bad guy Denis Leary wants to kill them now.  Bad times. 

In Judgment Night, Emilio Estevez plays a new father who's been itching to get out of the house.  His friends take him out for the night and he almost gets killed. The lesson? New dads need to stay home and help new moms.  Not my opinion, folks, but apparently it's the filmmaker's.  Hey, I didn't write this movie.

Emilio Estevez is not playing hockey but winds up kicking some serious butt.  Denis Leary's evil, but isn't he usually?  There's not really much to this that's original, just some of the circumstances.  But it's your basic bad guys chasing good guys story and it's pretty predictable.  That's all I got here, folks.

Movie #78 - Blade

Blade
New Line Cinema
1998 - Rated R - 2 hours
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristoffersen, Donal Logue

The working title for this movie was Blade, the Vampire Slayer. I'm really glad they steered away from that, because then it really would have seemed like a tougher, edgier, Wesley Snipes-ier Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And Joss Whedon was all set in that sector, thanks.

But Blade sounds harsher, fierceer even, than your average high-school vampire slaying film.

This movie is good, definitely the best of the three, and introduces the concept of a vampire-virus-infected vampire killer as just this unfortunate life-sucks kind of occurrence.  I think this is my favorite Snipes role after Demolition Man, and it kinda makes me miss the magic of 90's era action films (and their action heroes.)

Anyway, onto the less than stellar sequels.