Blade: Trinity

     The final battle begins and the trinity comes to an end! Blade is back and his enemies have grown in number since they resurrected their king Dracula. Together with a new group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers led by Whistler's strong but beautiful daughter Abigail and the wise-cracking Hannibal they must finally defeat the vampires or face inevitable extinction.

      Even skeptical fans of the Blade franchise will enjoy sinking their teeth into Blade: Trinity. The law of diminishing returns is in full effect here, and the franchise is wearing out its welcome, but let's face it: any movie that features Jessica Biel as an ass-kicking vampire slayer and Parker Posey--yes, Parker Posey!--as a vamping vampire villainess can't be all bad, right? Those lovely ladies bring equal measures of relief and grief to Blade, the half-human, half-vampire once again played, with tongue more firmly in stone-cold cheek, by Wesley Snipes. With series writer David S. Goyer in the director's chair, the film is calculated for mainstream appeal, trading suspenseful horror for campy humor and choppy, nonsensical action. The franchise still offers some intriguing ideas, however, including Drake (Dominic Purcell), the original vampire, whose blood contains the secret that could destroy all blood-suckers in a plot that incorporates a sinister "blood farm" where humans are held--and drained--in suspended animation. And Biel's wise-cracking sidekick (Ryan Reynolds) in her cadre of "Nightstalkers" provides comic relief in a series that's grown increasingly dour. All of which makes Blade: Trinity a love-it-or-hate-it sequel... supposedly the last in a trilogy, but the ending suggests otherwise.

Comment:
    This is presumably the end of the "Blade" franchise and as such, it's not bad, especially with a lot of the tongue in cheek dialogue. The action sequences work well I love this movie I love the unrated version you get more than the regular movie and I love that. I just love it that's all I have to say about that!!! I must admit I have not seen any of the other Blade movies and only purchased this DVD because it had Ryan Reynolds in it. I figured that even if I didn't like the movie the humor of Ryan Reynolds would be worth the small amount that I paid for it. Funny, Reynolds most certainly is even though his part is not that of a main character, rather srceen time is shared amongst the other actors equally. If you are a fan of Reynolds' humor than you will not be let down at all by his quick witted jokes that he throws into the mix of things on scene. After watching the movie I did find the special effects to be really good and not too over the top and "CG", as I had expected them to be. The story line does not fall short either and despite the fact that I have not seen any of the other Blade movies, I was still able to follow the movie very well and not feel as though I was missing a big part of the story from having not seen any prior Blade movies. Reynolds provides comical relief and seems to mesh very well with the story line as well as the other characters within the movie. Fan of past Blade movies or not, Blade Trinity is a movie worth checking out if even only for the simple fact that Ryan Reynolds is in it.