Ronnie Dobbs

I enjoyed some of his movie Passenger 57, Blade 1 & 2, Major League, White Men Can't Jump, New Jack City. It seems like until about '95 he had some decent movies then made a comeback with Blade then what?

NoirFan

His next project looks like a pretty high profile one - he co-stars in Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest (2009), a crime thriller with Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. It got a brief write up in the latest Entertainment Weekly - Snipes plays a pimp/drug dealer type, with Gere and Cheadle as cops, the latter undercover.

RTisBetter

Don't worry. His "comeback" will be with next year's Brooklyn's Finest. There's also legitimate rumours of a Blade 4 these days

Giantrobo

He also had some great smaller roles in a few Black dramas that many of you probably missed.

I think he just lost his focus. Maybe he started thinking he was immune to crap scripts. Maybe he was too busy planning his tax evasion.

EdTheRipper

The string of DTV titles that he's starred in makes it look as though he was pretty much just taking any job as long as they were offering to pay him.

matome

I'd say after he cashed in on Blade. Once you start going the Steven Seagal DTV route, you pretty much wear the Craptastic Scarlet Letter. Guess he needed money pronto.

starseed1981

Don't forget....the Art of War 2 comes out straight to DVD on 8/12.

RichC2

I'll say Murder at 1600 with the Blade series as a mediocre fluke.

Actually, from the looks of his IMDB page, it fell apart shortly after Blade, he had a 1 - 2 year hiatus and never returned to form. (disappeared after 1998 reappearted in 2000)

james2025a

Well from what i read he burn't a few bridges that forced him into DTV hell. But i guess doing the "Total Gym" adverts didn't help at all on cable. I laugh every time i see that thing....he is lying through his teeth so much you can see that he is not enjoying doing it.

I think that maybe it really started to go downhill in two stages. The first being the failure of Blade Trinity. The first two movies were enjoyable and well made. Trinity was a mess and just terrible. Also he did Undisputed, which i actually really like. But i seem to remember that this got knocked from being a theatrical release to a DTV release. I think that started the ball rolling whether he liked it or not.

I think the guy still has potential for a comeback, however if he keeps on doing DTV then he will end up like Van Damme, Segal et al. I just hope a few other actors (Jason Statham i am looking at you) don't end up like this.

cruzness

Blade Trinity where he started to take himself way too seriously.

The Infidel

I'd have to agree with those who said Blade. When he walked onto Letterman's set actually wearing the Blade vest on top of his regular clothes to promote the movie, it was all downhill from there.

BJacks

I think his earned reputation as a difficult guy to work with has gone a long way towards a downward career.

islandclaws

He's never been that big of a marquee actor to begin with but, recently, with crap like Blade: Trinity I think people just got sick of his obvious egomania and generally limited acted range.

Shannon Nutt

Yeah, this is pretty much the point where he started acting like he was god's gift to cinema and was (reportedly) a real pain in the ass to work with.

stingermck

This is your answer. Staying in character after cut, pissing off your co-stars, directors, etc, and saying you shouldn't share screen time with others, doesn't do yourself any favors.

Wasnt there some heat with him and J-Lo during Money Train? I think I remember reading he was wanting to do that sex scene after hours so to speak, and she turned him down.

Burgundy LaRue

Yeah, there was mention of Snipes coming on to J-Lo during that movie. She told him no, but he kept trying to push for extracurricular activities. I seem to remember J-Lo saying that she didn't want to work with him again because he was such a jerk.

Snipes has always been a guy that thinks his defecation smells like roses, so it's no surprise that directors and other actors finally got tired of him.

BuddyRevell

He....better wake up...the world he lives in is just a sugar coated topping!

Hokeyboy

I would say he went downhill when he attended a Nation of Islam speech at Columbia University in 1994 and started cheering on anti-White and anti-Semitic statements coming from the podium.

Prison, fines, and financial ruin couldn't happen to a douchier guy.

chanster

I don't think Blade 3 was the problem..he was already pretty washed up by that point. I think his descent started in the Fan..and it went down from there quickly. By the time he got to Blade, he was definitely on the downward slop and I don't think Blade was that big of a success in the theater..it seemed to do better as one of the first DVD's out there.
Actually I think Robert DeNiro's slide started at the Fan too.

Bluelitespecial

Enetrainment Weekly did a very good article on him a while back, pretty much explaining his downfall, and it all revolved around his being difficult to work with, and the Blade Trinity fiasco in which he sued New Line over creative differences in production.