While Stephen Norrington’s 1998 Blade established the character, del Toro’s 2002 sequel refined the world. The plot is deceptively simple: Blade (Wesley Snipes) is forced to team up with the "Bloodpack," an elite squad of vampires originally trained to kill him, to fight a new breed of super-vampires known as "Reapers."
The film is widely considered one of the best comic book sequels of its era and is often cited as the best movie in the Blade trilogy.