Blade: Trinity

The first one was the original, the second was Guillermo del Toro’s. Trinity is the third one and has no identity of its own. David S. Goyer merely does a workmanlike job of directing a mediocre screenplay, without any indication of a distinctive directorial touch, often slavishly employing hackneyed motifs and clichés. The music-video-style action sequences are a bit artificial, but the film stays afloat thanks to the hyper-dynamic soundtrack and mainly Ryan Reynolds’s one-liners. Jessica Biel is sexy, but it’s a shame that she plays twelfth fiddle. Overall, however, Blade: Trinity is still a more entertaining bit of nonsense than I had expected after the appalling responses to it. (09.02.2005)

My grandmother would have an apt term for this film: bollocks. The third entry of Blade lacks the stuff that graced the previous two. The impressive atmosphere and solid story of the first one and del Toro's action explosiveness of the second one have been replaced by a dull script, not much action, an appalling casting blunder in the form of Dracula and, most importantly, the fact that Goyer is a really weak director (even taking into account that this is his debut). (01.05.2005)

I was curious to see if the third film would top the first film in terms of stupidity, and I was essentially not disappointed. The screenplay is once again an ejaculate of the mind, which perhaps devoured too many C action movies and the worst comic books. The constant desire to convince the world that Blade is more than a stupid shooter film and that it is unlike other vampire movies is magical and ubiquitous. Dracula looks like a luxury gigolo, wears steel plates pinned to his shirt, and when running, he looks like a crook who stole a pound of pears in from a garden, and this cannot be successful. Blade: Trinity is simply funny nonsense about a gang of outspoken types with unclear sexual orientation, what vampires say to each other, and about a sculptural black man who manages to act for 113 minutes without a single expression of emotion. It's simply boring. However, the visual component is at a very decent level compared to the first film, the whole thing is post-Matrix - basically, it’s watchable. The quest for the obligatory coolness is half decent, half absolutely ridiculous. The only reason I don't give it boo! are some of the action scenes. After all, it's an action movie. Although Blade wants to be in a higher league. But it’s too sparse for that. (02.08.2006)

Evaluating Trinity for me means going back 20 years in memories and recalling - with a certain embarrassment - that I really liked the first film in the series on the big screen during its premiere. It was atmospheric, dynamic, and impactful. Additionally, I had nothing to compare it with, as I was never a fan of the genre. When I saw the action-packed sequel 15 years later, I was already suffering through del Toro's professionalism, and intentionally avoided the third one. Naturally, Trinity's predecessors could not boast of any script quality, but they managed to offer an original idea in the first case and decent craftsmanship in the second, which at least somewhat masked the silly essence of the subject matter. In the third film, practically everything fails - the characters, the story, and the logical construction of the fictional world. The appearance and behavior of Dracula must cause fits of despair even in an enthusiastic genre fan. The acting of the charming Jessica Biel, diplomatically speaking, is dull. Goyer is unable to bring any new ideas into the film and, at best, only diligently borrows from his predecessors what works to a minimum extent. Although it's not an Ed Wood film and there are certainly objectively worse films in cinema, for me, it made me miserable, although I acknowledge that a genre fan can easily add two stars. If Goyer managed to amuse me a few times, it was only with his ineptitude and clumsiness in some of the performances. Overall impression: 10%. (18.12.2018)

Overall, Blade Trinity is decently shot and edited action entertainment that won't offend, but it doesn't show anything new. On one hand, it's a pity because David S. Goyer could have squeezed a lot more from it, but considering the flaws of threequels, at least it turned out like this. (30.01.2005)

"That's a piece of his armor. From that, we were able to deduce by computer what the scum probably looked like." Yes, that's exactly what one of the characters in Blade: Trinity says, deadly serious, and that's exactly how stupid the whole movie is. I expected it to be worse than del Toro's sensational, playful and imaginative second part, but I didn't think it would be worse than the mediocre first part. And yet it is. Blade kind of isn't Blade anymore, a lot of it is saved by Ryan Reynolds (the only actor in the entire cast who manages to be both funny and likable), and I can't imagine a more awkward villain than this pimped out dullard Dracula aka Drake or whoever. All in all, I really only liked the scene with the dogs. (10.03.2016)

The lines suck, Blade was much better off with Whistler or Scud than his current partners (plus Biel is hyper), once someone opens their mouth it's best to turn off the sound and emotions really aren't needed in this franchise. It's just that Blade: Trinity has such a delectably infantile B-movie vibe, full of blood, fights, perfect monsters (the vampire dogs are a roar) and a minimum of dead spots, that I was quite entertained. Not a clean four by any means, but a thumbs up, despite the "critics" and the drooling sycophants. EDIT: So make that three, I'm not that much of an idiot (23.11.2010)