Editing Blade II (section)

===Critical response===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 57% based on 150 reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The site's consensus reads: "Though ''Blade II'' offers more of what worked in the original, its plot and character development appear to have been left on the cutting room floor."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_ii |title=Blade II |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date={{RT data|access date|df=iso}} }}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]] it has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blade-ii | title=Blade II (2002) | work= [[Metacritic]] | access-date= December 24, 2020 }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= CinemaScore |access-date= December 25, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180722041238/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= July 22, 2018 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three and a half out of four stars, stating: "''Blade II'' is a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons".<ref>{{cite news |author= Roger Ebert |author-link= Roger Ebert |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blade-ii-2002 |title= Blade II |publisher= [[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date= March 22, 2002 |access-date= 2011-01-06}}</ref> [[James Berardinelli]] gave the film two and a half out of four stars: "''Blade II'' is for those undiscriminating movie-goers who want nothing more from a trip to the multiplex than loud, raucous, mindless entertainment".<ref>{{cite web |date=2002-03-22 |first=James |last=Berardinelli |author-link=James Berardinelli |title=Blade II - Reelviews Movie Reviews |publisher=Reelviews.net |url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/b/blade2.html |access-date=2020-01-01}}</ref>