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Blade: Trinity (2004)
It was good but it could have been better.
The movie Blade Trinity was an entertaining movie to say the least. It filled my thirst for action, violence, and funny one-liners, for now. The movie though was a lacking in some important aspects, namely depth, plot, and a better cast of secondary villains.
The second Blade movie had the same team aspect that seen in all of the Blade movies, but the one thing that it had that I feel Blade Trinity lacked was a strong assortment of secondary villains. Trinity has its usual foray the strong vamp, the Asian vamp, the dominatrix vamp, and the crazy vamp that annoys everyone. The sad truth is that these characters were lacking in everything. Parker Posey, the actress who played Danica Talos, the dominatrix and pseudo leader vamp was lacking in the essentials of a strong female villain. The actress tried but did not capture the truly evil aspects that her character should have personified. In a scene were she is torturing one of are hero's she is supposed to be menacing but instead is just plain annoying.
Now the band of hero's in the film are a nice batch of auctioneers. Snipes does his usual Blade routine and Whistler adds what little spice and depth the movie had. I actually thought that Whistler was the most in-depth character in the movie. Second to Whistler in the character department would have to be Hannible King played by Ryan Reynolds. King dispatches most of the one-liners in the film and actually does a good job of making the film humorous at spots without dragging the film down. Next of course is the enchanting Jessica Biel who was not so much enchanting in the film as just there. She plays Abigail but does not add the flavor needed for the film.
I should also note that Dominic Purcell, who played the infamous Dracula in the film did an excellent job. He brought the true evil of Dracula out, I only wish that he had more spotlight time in the film. If he had I feel he would have given a more in-depth peak of the true character of Dracula.
The plot of the film is pretty standard, Dracula's brought back and Blade and his trio must stop him. Plot elements are put in the film to add to a way to end the franchise, but so are certain holes. The origin of Dracula is never explained and though the reasons for Dracula's slumber are pseudo given they are never fully explained.
The weapons in the movie are cool but are not given as much spotlight as they were in the last two movies. As you will see a weapon used in the beginning of the film that is not used any more time after.
The stunts in the movie were also enjoyable but I wish the fight scene between Drake (Dracula) and Blade had been longer and in a wider area of space. The other two movies feature a final fight in a large area with plenty of light and camera angle glory. The final fight in the end of the movie is dark and cramped. I would have liked to see the lighted form of Dracula for once in the movie but I was left disappointed.
All in all the movie was a good action movie that managed to keep my interest through the whole movie, and in some cases laugh. I give the movie a 7 because event though it lacks it does hold a pinnacle of vampire goodness that is missed at times. Plus some of the action sequences and shots were really artistic and original.