Blade: Trinity

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 The impressive atmosphere and solid story of the first one and del Toro's action explosiveness of the second one have been replaced by a dull script, not much action, an appalling casting blunder in the form of Dracula and, most importantly, the fact that Goyer is a really weak director (even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)

"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. (11/03/2016)

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)

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)

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)