i liked the first Blade better also....it was like the first Batman movie compaired to the second one...the first blade was played a little more darker and less for humor..even though there was some..the second more for humor and like ovda said it had more gore...i personally liked the sword play better in the first...although overall the movie was good and worth seeing...it lacked a little bit of the storyline the first one had..and the imagination. so far resident evil and blade 2 have fallen a little below my expectations..i'm hoping the spiderman movie does'nt.