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The doorbell rang before 10am today, and when I dragged myself out of bed to answer the door (unshaven, bleary eyed, and hastily dressed with my T-shirt inside out and my fly unzipped) there was the future owner of my much maligned Raptor. I made him a coffee, and took him to the garage to see her running while I dashed back inside to comb my hair and rearrange my clothes. As expected, when I returned a few minutes later he had fallen for her charms, and soon I was helping to load her onto the back of a van. Somewhat unexpected though, was the wistful pang of sadness I felt at saying goodbye. Despite the best efforts of the hateful Three Cross Motorcycles (lest we forget how truly useless they are, being that I haven’t opined at their so called customer service in almost a year!) to make owning her as awful an experience as possible, and a very low boredom threshold that encourages me to change cars and bikes once or twice a year, I’ve never owned or enjoyed a vehicle of any sort for such a long time: three-and-a-half years by my reckoning. I trust that she’ll bring as much pleasure to her new owner as she did me, and wish her a long and happy life. Farewell Lil’ Red!

I was captivated by the trailers when they arrived on Apple Movie Trailers last year… slightly worried that the movie would be a typical lacklustre sequel; that the trailer contained the only good bits from the entire movie; that it would be a victory of style over substance with a vacuous plot and thin characterisation — however, after wasting ten minutes of the opening sequence reminding us of the contents of the previous movie, the action hots up. Yes, the plot is light; but, OMG the effects are amazing, and even the most jaded critic would be hard pressed not to be entertained. Rest assured, if you enjoyed the original, then you will enjoy this one just as much. The twist in the plot is much more laboured than in the first outing, but that is of small consequence compared to the overall effect of the movie.

We have the same writer again too, so there are no sacrifices of continuity. In fact, many of the gaps left by the original are filled in: We find out what really happened to Amelia, why (and how) Selene’s family were all killed but she was spared, what Viktor was plotting leading up to the events in the first movie, and more.

The makeup and CGI for Marcus, the winged vampire overlord, are incredible. I’m hooked. When is the DVD released?