Blade: Trinity (2004)

Movie Review: "Blade: Trinity" (2004)Screenwriter David S. Goyer, known for making first waves in Hollywood's action-niche apart from Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Willis of the late 1980s with an original script for Jean-Claude Van Damme's martial-arts action-movie "Death Warrant" directed by Deran Sarafian also writing the first two installments of a darker side of a building "Marvel Universe" from year 1998 directed by Stephen Norrington and 2002 directed by Guillermo Del Toro, before the writer turns to directing the third installment, and overthrows himself with quality declining filmmaking departments. when the character of "Blade" reprises himself and surprisingly unchanged, slightly spoiled performance by actor Wesley Snipes, at age 42, who nevertheless stays in acrobatic shape for action scene out of the ordinary with samurai sword, razor-sharp boomerang knives and a lot of more gear as 1968 vintage-black Dodge charger and silver-metallic-glossy motorcycle.Supporting character as Abigail Whistler, given face by 22-year-old Jessica Biel are intriguing, but under the restraint direction of Goyers' uneffective; the highly-trained and organized-moving daughter of Gear-and-Medicine-making Whistler, here in also third-time reprising character-acting Kris Kristofferson fighting the ongoing rampage threats of blood-sucking vampires at night as the so-marketed toughest confrontation with an inherit of "Count Dracula" himself, with massively-brute appearances by actor Dominic Purcell as vampire-dominion-seeking Drake, who a year later led the U.S. American tv show "Prison Break", running from 2005 to 2008 with a revival in 2017, to rating heights for Fox television broadcasting and critical acclaim.But the nemesis character "Drake" falls just short in emotional transcendence of coming to terms with the stylized, but not timeless-designed world and a female side-kicking character Danica Talos, portrayed by tendencies of constant overacting actress Parker Posey, when her fighting confrontation with pushy, uprising actor Ryan Reynolds, at age 27, showing enormous abilities in physical action and ease-striking acting beats, here in flourishing character of Hannibal King, who all get their moments in the spotlight in 65-Million-Dollar production "Blade: Trinity", an hard-to-believe event movie releasing without enormous marketing efforts on a prestigious Holiday season mid-december-weekend in 2004.Unfortunate parts of "Blade: Trinity" come to inevitable conclusions, when the whole film in a weak 105-Minute-Editorial by Conrad Smart and no-help polishing works by superior cutter Howard E, Smith under hardly focused David S. Goyer's directions that even executive producing Avi Arad and co-producing soon-to-be Marvel's initial phase-producer from 2008 "Iron Man" to 2018 "Avengers: Infinity War", Kevin Feige, can not make the third installment of an R-rated Marvel Action-Hero a fulfilling movie occasion, because too many characters, too less conflicts of measure, less-to-no-suspense just style and endless martial-arts after 45 minutes tiresome fights against the already considered achievements in Marvel's neglected "Dark Universe" peaking with the first two "Blade" movies from 1998 and completely abandoned after "Iron Man" starring Robert Downey Jr. directed by Jon Favreau becomes the success to continue on.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Blade and Blade II are better movies. But still this a great movie. See it. It has great acting. Great story line. It is very scary.

These are not the Nightstalkers.For starters, Hannibal King IS a vampire, just one that Dr. Strange found a way to cure from having to drink human blood. He's depressed and brooding, not flippant and Deadpool. AND, he's the farthest thing from an noob.King is a pro. King is not at all what the movie made him out to be and because of that Hollywood rewrite, the movie suffered. It could have been much darker if they kept King like he was, dark, brooding, depressive, and a serious vampire hunter.And then Abigail Whistler, well she's NOT Frank Drake. She's not the man that got all messed in the head when he set Dracula (his great great granddaddy) loose, had a bit of a break down, and became a psychopathic vampire slayer.Blade: Trinity is NOT a movie about the Nightstalkers. We wanted the Nightstalkers. We wanted a trio of insane vampire hunters that are obsessed with cleaning the earth of everything remotely occult.They were supposed to be so obsessed with their duty that, if they finally did manage to kill every last one, they would start going after both King and Blade himself to make sure the job was done in its entirety.They were seriously darkly insane characters.That movie would have rocked.Instead we got Blade and two light-hearted wimps with one-liners. It is nowhere near the movie it could have been. It's not even anywhere near the movie it could have been if they just let Blade go it alone.It sucks, just like the vampires they are trying to kill, especially like the Big Bad who gives off the feel of a Heavy Metal, weight lifting night clubber that just woke from what was supposed to be a very long sleep.No way, uh-uh, absolutely not. It should be a pet peve of everyone when a character is brought from the past and fits right in with a subsection of modern culture. That junk is why we stopped reading Anne Rice.

Some people may not recognize it as the actual successful start of film studio Marvel comics but Blade (1998) was the original renaissance to where the company entered into profitable film making. It may have not had the intro credits like every property that came after it until its sequels or glowing reviews but the character was one of the few to have a much grittier and darker tone. This attribute would only go to Blade for the first five years until Daredevil (2003) and The Punisher (2004) were released. It was a special franchise that molded vampires from romantic / fantasy creatures into action / horror icons. Blade II (2002) reaffirmed this understanding although it was not as compelling as its predecessor. A couple years later, fans of the series would get their final entry in the series and very few left the theater happy. With a troubled production involving Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson being unsatisfied with the script, the end product feels like not the entire crew was on board.David S. Goyer, the now divisive comic book film adapter of multiple properties wrote and directed this feature. After accidentally killing a human, Blade (Wesley Snipes) is on the run from the F.B.I. and teams up with a group called the Nightstalkers played by Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds) and Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel). Together they must join forces to stop Drake AKA Dracula (Dominic Purcell) from bringing the world to an end. Sounds okay on paper (or screen) but the execution is different. Seeing Goyer's experience in other properties and being involved with this franchise from the very beginning, its confusing as to how Goyer messed up this much. Of the premise, the first subplot that does not belong is the killing of a human. It's not that it's a bad idea, but it never gets resolved so why even bother shoehorning it in? The cast is also a mismatch of actors. The only two actors who fit the best are obviously Snipes and Kristofferson; a close third could be Jessica Biel due to her character's relation to Blade.But of this, Snipes and Kristofferson feel and sound the least invested and that only further cements the troubled production history. One of the biggest things that fans of the series will notice is how much Whistler and Blade take a back seat. Casting Ryan Reynolds would not have been a mistake if the character of King did not eat up all the dialog on the script. Blade barely says anything in this feature. Here and there yeah he does say a couple of good lines, but it's not that often. Most of the time, he just stares into space or grimaces. There's more to Blade than just that. The same could be said for Biel's role. Her character enjoys listening to music when fighting vampires; that dates the film a lot. Dominic Purcell as Drake (is that supposed to modernize his name?) isn't terrible but he also looks awkward in the role. His face looks as though he doesn't quite know what he's playing so he'll just be himself to some degree. His minions played by Paul Levesque (Triple H) and Parker Posey are actually more convincing vampires than he is.There's also a distinct lack of action and horror throughout this picture. The special visual effects are actually better than a lot of the CGI stuffed scenes that were in Blade II (2002) but the count is much lower here. There are a couple of decent action scenes but the rest are rather underwhelming. Even the battle between Drake and Blade looks less exciting than what has been put to screen before. There are vampire stabbings, bitings and some blood but it's not as heavy as the violence depicted in this franchise's earlier years. Again going back to tone, Blade (1998) and Blade II (2002) roughly had equal tone with each other. The atmosphere of the universe Blade lived in felt dark and unsafe. The locations used in this entry are just uninteresting and boring. The Nightstalkers' headquarters has nothing special about it and the city itself feels more clean and shiny than in past representations. What was the purpose of this? Was it to just add to the fad at the time of other superhero films? It takes away what the series had going for it.Handling the camera-work was Mexican cameraman Gabriel Beristain. Beristain had also filmed for Blade II (2002) and S.W.A.T. (2003). Thankfully for much of the film, Beristain's experience kept the shoot steady. Beristain delightfully changed the aspect ratio from the previous entry to a wide lens and that always gives the movie a much bigger scope in visuals. The music was also enjoyable though this series has never had a solidified composer attached. Producing the music to this entry was German composer Ramin Djawadi and for some reason his official score has gone unreleased. There are a few areas where bootlegs can be found but there's no real way of obtaining the music. Only a few actual tracks exist, which mainly highlight some of the action sequences. One called "Shooting Around Corners" uses mainly synths but with an energetic fashion that actually is fun listening to. There are some cues that are organic like "Drake's Parting Gift" using real orchestra but it's not as memorable as the scores released it before.Unfortunately, the last series to the original Blade (1998) franchise is just middling. The music and visuals are acceptable but the casting feels misguided. The main leads don't sound invested, the action is infrequent and Blade doesn't do all that much wisecracking or say much at all.