Rate Blade: Trinity

[Krug]

So suck or bite?

 

[Captain Tagon]

It was good for what it was, a fun action flick. However the dialogue was just flat out horrible and it's a pretty sad thing when Triple H was possibly the second best actor in the film.

 

[Capellan]

It's a very, very silly movie.

I had fun

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I generally enjoyed the movie. I disagree with HHH being the second best actor in the movie. Maybe the second best vampire actor in the movie, but there was zero/none/nil/nada competition for the vampires. All the "human" actors blew him away (and so did the K9 actors). I found it painful to watch his sceens. I did love the tech. Wesley Snipes was very good, and I would see another Jessica Beal action movie in the future. The plot had lots of holes, but the action was good and there was little that made me go "what?" in the middle of watching it. Afterwards it is easy to disect for consistency.

 

[Hopping Vampire]

Ryan Reynolds MADE this waste of millions of dollars even tolerable. Horrible film.

 

[Acid_crash]

Hey, they finally put the Marvel intro at the beginning so it was an improvement over the first two in that regard...

I voted a 7, it was okay, the action was good, the story was okay, the effects were decent and I like how they tricked Blade...but it definately wasn't as good as the first, and I can't figure out if I like this one more or less than the second one. Plus, why Blade: Trinity??? What is up with the trinity aspect of it? This movie didn't follow any continuity of the previous ones...neither did the second one for that matter.

Triple H was okay, for his first movie role, but I thought the dog vampire bit was taking it overboard. If this is the last Blade movie, it is sure a let down as for telling his story.

Now, they need a movie to fill the gap between Blade 1 and Blade 2, when he was in Russia. That would be a good Blade movie.

 

[Chun-tzu]

I gave it a 6, but I also could have gone with a 5. It was okay, not as good as the first two, and a bit disappointing. I think the original concept, of a planet of vampires, would have been better than this one.

The Good:

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Hannibal King was a good addition to the cast, to balance out the ultra-stoic Blade a little. The action scenes were good, but not particularly memorable. There are some (relatively) innovative things in the Blade movies. The set up and the blood bank ideas were decent. The energy scythe was pretty cool. I liked the vampire dogs.

The Bad:

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The characters are all pretty one-dimensional here, even Blade. Blade's injections were more compelling than the inhaler, but that's a minor thing. Jessica Beal was fine, but with such a one-dimensional character, there wasn't much interesting about her. Her old man Whistler dies again. Does he die every Blade movie? (j/k) Hannibal King is supposed to be 100% human again, so having him wrestle a vampire, and a strong one at that, was pretty far fetched. The main villain was terrible. The ultra-fast sword fight in the first movie (or was it the second?) was good; so why are they so freaking slow in this one?

The bio-weapon was very anticlimactic. Once the virus is explained, you already know how the movie will end (and there weren't any real twists, either). Both the first line and the last line of the movie were terrible. The first line, about how we all owe everything to Blade, telegraphs how the movie will end. The last line, about how Blade's war is never over, is pretty stupid, since vampires have now been wiped out. What the heck is Blade going to fight then?

 

[Capellan]

Let's all talk in black!

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I think the idea is that they could only kill all vampires, if they had enough of the serum. But they didn't, so they only killed the vampires in the immediate vicinity. It's not like they can make any more of the stuff, with Drake dead. As an ending, this makes sense: I mean, did you really expect them to kill off all vampires? How could there be a fourth movie, if they did that?

I thought the first one was better, but this was a definite improvement over Blade II, for me.

 

[Chun-tzu]

Let's all talk in black!

Okay!

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If the virus only killed the vampires in the immediate vicinity, then the movie becomes fairly pointless. Hennibal went on at length about how they're losing the war, because they can only kill a couple hundred a year when there are thousands of vampires. Plus risking Blade's life just to kill the vampires in the vicinity seems pretty stupid, seeing as he's their best weapon. The blind Nightstalker said that they'd know if the virus worked because all the vampires in the immediate vicinity would be destroyed, but it was meant to wipe out all vampires.

 

[Capellan]

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I don't recall her ever saying it would still kill all vampires - just that they would know if had worked if those nearby died. Also, she was working on the principle that they would have more than one arrow full of the stuff.

In any case, I'm pretty sure that at the end, the point was to kill Drake, since he was the 'master' from which the race evolved. They also killed the most senior vampires in that area. Plus there was the whole 'saving their friends' deal, which was probably enough all by itself.

As for Hannibal's comments ... he's just some guy, talking in the heat of the moment: just because he says it, doesn't make it true.