Shout by Philharmonie

Blade 1998

Marvel hero movie before the MCU was cool.
The Daywalker doesn't need an origin film, but his story is told en passant during the actual narration of the film.

This is simple, leader-vampire wants to revive god-vampire, but convincingly staged. The characters are all overdrawn and Blade himself is as cool as the antagonist's last name (Frost).
The 90's music, action, dialogue and unfortunately CGI drip from every scene. Another thing that sets the film apart from similar works of today is that the world, the characters and the characters take the world seriously. The mood is not broken ironically over and over again and every seriousness, no matter how overdone, is not resolved with a joke or a quip.
It is precisely this that makes Blade refreshingly different and worth seeing from today's perspective, given the huge range of superhero films.

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