Blade: Trinity (2004)

Director: David S Goyer

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel

Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula.

Wesley Snipes did not possess the same screen presence he did with the previous two films. It almost seemed as if he himself was not sure why he decided to make this Blade film, and didn’t seem as enthusiastic as before. This movie was just one big mess. I mean, right in the beginning, a guy “set him up” by posing as a vampire so Blade would chase him and they could film him to show to the world he kills humans. Did this guy intend to sacrifice himself? How did they know where to place the cameramen for this purpose? How would they have had the faintest idea where the revealing action would take place? Nothing about this scene made any sense! It infuriated me!

The entire film has no credibility whatsoever and everything happens purely for effect or because it would look great on screen. Some of the visual effects during the action sequences are indeed fantastic, but most of them are not logical. It is overdone, to say the least. Oh, and the store attendants at the Dracula store were real dickheads! They honestly deserved their fate. The dialogue was terrible, as was the music. And if Drake is so powerful, why was he running away from Blade instead of just overpowering or killing him? Surely he could easily do that, but then we wouldn’t have had a story, would we. Hmmm, this suddenly sounds good…

The film only gets a bit more serious well after the halfway mark, but by that time I couldn’t give a damn anymore. Wow, there’s a lot of CGI breaking glass in this movie!!! Ryan Reynolds’ character was a real moron and even his perfect body couldn’t save it for me. This film played more like a spoof than a sequel.