Blade: Trinity
2004
Director: David S. Goyer
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds, Parker Posey, and Dominic Purcell.

After the excellent first two installments of Blade, I was expecting this third and final installment to be great. Until I read the reviews. The reviews were horrible. I still decided to watch it anyway and that was my big mistake. What a waste of $6. The first two installments had a sense of mystery about Blade and his missions but this installment removes everything that made the first two great. Gone is the intensity, the panache, the darkness of Blade, and the comic book type humor. With Blade: Trinity, the humor is now comedic with Ryan Reynolds disposing most of these lines (I admit that there are funny lines).

The problems with the film are three things: the acting from most of the new characters (especially Biel, Posey, and Purcell), the music, and the fight sequences. Biel can't even act for the life of her and the scene where she's supposed to be extremely emotional comes out being cheesy and unintentionally laughable. Posey is miscast in the film as Danica Talos, a bitch of a vampire who not funny or even scary. But the worst character of them all has to be the main villain, Dracula (or the stupidly named Drake). He doesn't have the charisma of Stephen Dorff from Blade or the menace and threat from Luke Goss in Blade 2. He's completely worthless and totally laughable. He looks more model than vampire. Who the fuck wrote this piece of shit?

And final problem I had with the film is the fight sequences. This really hurt for me because I love well choreographed and well performed fight sequences. The stylistic fight sequences from Blade or the brutal street fighting from Blade 2 are nowhere to be seen here. The final fight between Blade and Dracula is just plain boring. On top of that, the music sucks. The music in the movie is just plain horrible. It just blasts all over the film, you can't even hear what the characters are saying. And who the fuck chose the music for this?

I hate to say this but I despised this film. Sure, it's not as bad as Alexander (which was by far the worst film of the year), but man, it SHOULD have been so much better. Goyer can't direct his scripts if the world depended on it. He uses too many flash cuts during the fight scenes and he can't even cast proper actors for the roles.

And for a movie titled Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes is in the movie much less than in the first two installments (no wonder he hated working on this movie).

Fuck this movie.

One of the WORST of the year.

Grade: D-