Blade: Trinity

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)

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 The impressive atmosphere and solid story of the first one and del Toro's action explosiveness of the second one have been replaced by a dull script, not much action, an appalling casting blunder in the form of Dracula and, most importantly, the fact that Goyer is a really weak director (even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). (30/04/2005)

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)