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• Revealing mistakes: During the fight in the Temple just before Blade recovers his sword, you can see the ground move and a stunt man bounce due to an ill-concealed mat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Deacon is talking to Karen in the Edgewood Tower before Blade arrives the box of Camel cigarettes in the bottom left corner changes positions throughout the scene.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Towards the end of the movie, when Blade is trying to retrieve his sword from a wall, a cast member can be seen clearly in the background, jumping up and down, apparently preparing to enter the ensuing fight scene.
  
  

• Continuity: In the final fight between Blade and Frost, the bloodstain on Frost switches from the left side of his face to the right, then back to the left.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end of the final showdown between Blade and Frost/La Magra, when all the vial darts have hit Frost and his body swells up from the effect of the EDTA, you can see his left foot (right side to the viewer) "slide" sideways along with the pulsating of his bloated body.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final fight, when Frost punches Blade across the room (after super-speeding up to him): In the close-up of Frost, he swings at Blade with his right fist, but when they switch to the wide shot, he connects with his left fist.
  
  
• Continuity: The "receiver" in Blade's left ear is not there after the punch to the face but is there after the silver spike was embedded in his shoulder by Quinn.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: EDTA (ethylenediaminetetracetate), the anticoagulant Blade uses in the glass darts, is not blue. The powdered form is white and produces a clear, colorless solution. However it is possible they would have coloured it blue in order to make it distinguishable from other liquids such as Blade's serum to avoid any mix-ups.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blade is being injected with serum in the hideout he spots Karen trying to escape. Whistler lets go of Blade's hand to pursue Karen, but then a close up on Blade has Whistler still holding it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The vampires do not seem concerned at any time about the damage caused to their original Bible, despite its importance historically and to their immediate plans. That's because it's the information and not the artifact that's important, and the information has all been stored on Frost's computer.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final fight, it's obvious where Blade has a stunt double, especially in the slow-motion sequence when the sword/rock/serum is falling around him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blade collapses nearly unconscious out of the blood collection chamber, his hands are at his sides. When he hits the floor, they are above his head and help support his fall.
  
  
• Continuity: Smoke rises from Karen's collar while she is lying on the table before she is injected with the Essence of Garlic. It is in the shot that ends with Whistler reading her ID Badge.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blade and Quinn are fighting in the subway, Blade pushes Quinn's face against the train and it gets very messed up but right when he pulls it off his face is normal.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Blade silently mouths "What... the... fuck?", the crew is reflected in his sunglasses.
  
  
• Continuity: When Quinn bites Dr. Jenson, the doctor's wig slips to the side and we see a glimpse of her real hair. In the next shot, her wig is back in place.
  
  
• Continuity: Karen's bandages, covering Quinn's bite, change positions.
  
  
• Continuity: Before beginning the final fight, Blade jumps from the top of the temple. While jumping, his vest is undone. When he lands, his vest is completely done up.
  
  
• Continuity: The blonde vampire (Mercury) is wearing her white coat when she leads the purebloods to the glyphs. When Deacon says, "bring the elevator up," she's not wearing the coat, but it reappears the next time we see her.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Deacon Frost has decoded the text, and is looking at the image of the chamber, and the positions the purebloods must stand in are being shown with a click for each one, there are 21 clicks, but only 12 purebloods are needed, plus one position at the centre for Deacon.
  
  
• Continuity: In the subway, Mercury's dress changes from white to blue back to white again due to the ultraviolet lights that were used to light some of the SFX shots (lights that wouldn't normally exist in a subway tunnel).
  
  
• Continuity: When the lightning strikes the temple, you see it strike the assembled coffin/sarcophagus that Blade had been locked in, but this is after Karen has let him out. A little later you see that the halves are still apart.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blade first opens the freezer to get to Pearl, there is lettuce in the top shelf. When he reopens the freezer and starts down the stairs, the top shelf has a tray covered in foil on it and the lettuce is gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the subway tunnel fight, the subway train takes over 60 seconds to pass by Blade and Quinn. If the train is traveling at 30 mph, then the train would have to be a half-mile long, or 66 train cars at 40 feet per car. A standard subway train is 8 or 10 cars long.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the background of the vampire nightclub after Blade's small killing spree a man is visible in the background, covered in head to toe with blood, however his bright blue shorts don't have a speck on them, even though it rained from the roof a few moments beforehand.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film, during the time the flying skeletons exit the vampires' burning bodies, the same bodies are unburnt and visible in the wide-angle shots. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to the two female vampires.
  
  
• Continuity: In the fight between Deacon and Blade in the temple, Deacon jumps up wearing white shoes and comes down wearing black shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: In the subway, Karen falls into the gap between the subway train and the walkway; the gap is wide enough for her to stand up and give Blade his sword. In all other shots, the gap between the train and the walkway is clearly three or four inches at most.
  
  
• Continuity: Blade removes Quinn's left arm but it reappears for one shot shortly after the security guards shoot Blade and Quinn runs into a room.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blade is wiping off Whistlers neck, telling him he is the Key that Frost needs, Blade gets most of it off in a couple of shots, but the last one all the blood is back on his neck again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Frost takes a long, long time trying to translate The Book of Erebus with the help of computers, but after the rescue of Blade from vampire's basement, Whistler takes a piece of the original text and reads the hieroglyphs like plain English.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Blade and Karen enter the elevator to go to Pearl's, you can see Blade get out of character and joke with Karen as the doors close.
  
  
• Continuity: When Deacon is outside with the other vampires for the sunrise sacrifice of Vampire Elder Dragonetti, he and the others are wearing motorcycle helmets and sunscreen on their skin to prevent themselves from burning in the sun. Yet in the scene where he meets Blade wearing sunscreen ("Your mascara's running") he is not wearing a helmet, he takes his glasses off and looks directly at the sun. Theoretically his eyes should be a weak point that lets the light in and should kill him or at least blind him! However, Deacon is wearing sunscreen during the meeting, which could explain why he is not burning, but it does contradict the motorcycle helmet and suit.
  
  
• Continuity: After feeding on Karen (during ritual), Blade throws his head back and screams, revealing his pearly white all-too human teeth. His fangs, which should have been highly visible, were absent.
  
  
• Continuity: After the encounter with Pearl and while Blade is held down by a couple of vampires in the scripture room, a vampire takes his sword and gets his hand chopped off like Quinn did earlier in the movie. When the sword hits the ground, we can see the handle is covered completely in blood. After reacquiring the sword while escaping and making a break for the subway tunnel, we can see the sword on blade's back again and the handle is completely clean without a trace of blood on it.
  
  

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