Blade: Trinity (2004)

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers (WGA):

David S. Goyer (written by)
Marv Wolfman (character) ...

Release Date:

8 December 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Where it began so it shall end.

Plot:

Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Blade | Dracula | Blood | Vampire Hunter

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Wesley Snipes	...	Blade
Kris Kristofferson	...	Whistler
Dominic Purcell	...	Drake
Jessica Biel	...	Abigail Whistler
Ryan Reynolds	...	Hannibal King
Parker Posey	...	Danica Talos
Mark Berry	...	Chief Martin Vreede
John Michael Higgins	...	Dr. Edgar Vance
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Asher Talos
Paul Levesque	...	Jarko Grimwood (as Triple H)
Paul Anthony	...	Wolfe
Françoise Yip	...	Virago
Michael Rawlins	...	Wilson Hale (as Michael Anthony Rawlins)
James Remar	...	Ray Cumberland
Natasha Lyonne	...	Sommerfield

Also Known As:

Blade III (USA) (working title)
Blade: Trinity (Argentina) (Chile) (Spain) [es]
Блэйд 3: Троица (Russia) [ru]
Blade 3 (Japan) [ja]
Blade III - La trinité (Canada: French title) [fr]
Blade: Kolmik (Estonia) [et]
Blade: Trinity (Brazil) [pt]
Blade: Trinity (Germany) [de]
Blade: Trinity (Finland) [fi]
Blade: Trinity (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Blade: Trinity (Greece) [el]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong pervasive violence and language, and some sexual content.

Runtime:

113 min | Germany:105 min (cut version) | USA:122 min (unrated DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Esperanto

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Taiwan:R-12 | Ireland:18 | Malaysia:18SG | Canada:14A (Ontario) (unrated DVD version) | Canada:18A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:18A (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) (Canadian Home Video rating) (unrated DVD version) | South Korea:15 (cable rating) | Finland:K-15 (self applied) (TV rating) (2008) | Chile:TE (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:14 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Germany:16 (cut) | Germany:18 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:R-13 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | UK:15 | USA:Unrated (unrated DVD version) | Iceland:16 | USA:R (No. 40999)

Filming Locations:

Intersection of Granville and West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

The car Blade drives in all three movies is a 1968 Dodge Charger modified with UV lights behind the front grille as well as numerous switches inside the car. After the movie the car was purchased by a man in Vancouver who kept the car virtually the same except for adding a 440 under the hood.

Goofs:

Continuity: In "Blade 2", there's a scene where it's pointed out that vampires can see quite well in the dark. In the opening of "Blade: Trinity", when the vampires find Drake's resting place, they use numerous lighting devices to see in the dark caverns.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Hannibal King: In the movies, Dracula wears a cape, and some old English guy always manages to save the day at the last minute with crosses and holy water. But everybody knows the movies are full of shit. The truth is, it started with Blade, and it ended with him. The rest of us were just along for the ride.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Marvel Super Hero Challenge (2007) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Theme from

Pretty Good Action Movie

I must say that going into seeing Blade: Trinity I was not expecting a masterpiece, I merely wanted to be entertained by this movie. With that said, it did a pretty decent job. People can criticize this film with having a thin plot, being corny at points, heck I know I will, but I don't think the makers were going for a great plot, and great acting, more along the lines of action/comedy and lots of fighting/explosions.

The plot is this: a group of vampires bring back Dracula to help combat Blade, while they also get Blade to the top of the FBI's most wanted, now Blade needs help of his own, this comes from a group of new young vampire stalkers. These are not spoilers by the way, everything I say is included in the trailers. I must say that many times I was saying in this film "yeah right", but most of the time I was having a ball. I will say that one thing I found is that Blade: Trinity was less "dark" than the other two Blade movies, it just had a lighter feel to it. More comedy involved than before, which was nice because it was indeed funny, but I liked the atmosphere set by the other films that this one did not take.

The newest additions, Ryan Renolds and Jessica Beil, do their jobs pretty well. I must say that Renolds had me laughing almost any time he was on screen. Beil was very nice to look at, she is just incredibly beautiful, and she does well considering the lines she is given. Paul Levesque, better known as Triple H makes a decent debut, I guess. He had some funny parts, but really I can't see how his job was that hard considering his role was to beat people up, and that's what he gets paid to do for the WWE so it's not a real stretch. Well overall the supporting cast did a good job and kept me entertained.

On to the meat and potatoes of this movie, the fights. Much of the work was very well done in this film, Snipes is his usual acrobatic self and disposes of vampires in interesting ways while showing off his martial arts skills. Here is a part I didn't like, the fighting involving Ryan Renolds, at times he tries to be like Snipes, and it just doesn't work. I always say, if the actor doesn't know martial arts, don't make him try to pretend, it's just not the same. Beil did some nice fight scenes to. Triple H, well his fights were good, but I see it too much in the ring to really enjoy it, the whole time I was thinking in my head, "now when's he going to break out a pedigree ?", well that moment never came. The gun fights were really well done, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Overall Blade: Trinity had awesome fight scenes.

So that pretty much sums up my feelings of this film. It was a fun movie to watch just for the action, and comedy of Renolds, but not much else (did I mention Jessica Beil was very beautiful). I will say that out of the three Blade movies, this is my least favorite, but I still like it and recommend it to anybody looking for a good action movie, die-hard fans of the series will probably be conflicted with it. My rating is 8/10.