Blade: Trinity (2004)

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

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers:

David S. Goyer, Marv Wolfman (character),

Stars:

Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Reynolds

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Blade finds himself alone surrounded by enemies, fighting an up hill battle with the vampire nation and now humans. He joins forces with a group of vampire hunters whom call themselves the Nightstalkers. The vampire nation awakens the king of vampires Dracula from his slumber with intentions of using his primitive blood to become day-walkers. On the other side is Blade and his team manifesting a virus that could wipe out the vampire race once and for all. In the end the two sides will collide and only one will come out victorious, a battle between the ultimate vampire whom never knew defeat, facing off against the greatest vampire slayer.

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Plot Keywords:

vampire | blade | dracula | blood | vampire hunter | 

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Taglines:

Where it began so it shall end.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Metropolitan Filmexport [fr] New Line Cinema - Official soundtrack site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Esperanto

Release Date:

8 December 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Blade III

Filming Locations:

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

Box Office

Budget:

$65,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$243,957 (Japan) (6 May 2005)

Gross:

$535,661 (Japan) (13 May 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Shawn Danielle Productions Ltd., Amen Ra Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min 105 min (cut) 122 min (unrated DVD)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jessica Biel inadvertently destroyed a camera, costing more than $300,000, when she fired an arrow directly into the camera's lens. She was directed to "aim for the camera", which had a Plexiglas shield in front of it to protect it, except for a small opening in front of the lens. Biel had perfected her archery skills while training for this role to such a degree that when she fired the arrow - at a distance of approximately 50 feet - at the camera, as she was directed, it went directly through the lens and into the camera itself, destroying it. The footage of the incident is included in the DVD extras.

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Goofs

When Blade is imprisoned, the psychiatrist questions and mocks him. When the camera is besides the psychiatrist and facing Blade, you see that Blade keeps his head turned to the right, so he has to look through his left eye corners to see the psychiatrist. But when the camera is located behind Blade, facing the psychiatrist, you can see that Blade is looking straight at him. This changing of the angle happens several times during the conversation.

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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.

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Crazy Credits

"WORD" (at the end of the credits)

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Connections

References Goldfinger (1964)

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Soundtracks

"This Blood"
Written by Andy Ellis and Paul Durham
Performed by Black Lab
Courtesy of Big Machine Music

User Reviews

Decent third showing for Blade, but nothing brilliant

I was never a big fan of the original 'Blade', but I liked the sequel a lot. Doing away with the story building of the first one, Blade II captured a nice balance between plot and action and it was an entertaining ride throughout. For this third instalment, however that perfect balance has been interrupted, and calling this film 'action heavy' would be an understatement. While the action in the movie is well done and entertaining to watch, when you've seen 45th bad guy being smashed through a window, it loses it's impact somewhat. The talking scenes in between the action are either small plot details that the film needs to string itself together, or just another action sequence set-up. The plot is messy to say the least, and there's far too much going on for it to be streamlined into an engaging and satisfying story, but nevertheless it follows the vampires as they resurrect legendary bloodsucker Dracula and get Blade into trouble with the cops. However, Blade manages to team up with a ragtag bunch of vampire hunters and together they attempt to thwart Dracula and the rest of the vampires! Oh, and the cops.

David S. Goyer, the man who wrote the first two Blade films has taken the director's chair this time round. He's obviously being watching too much Mtv too, as he seems far too keen to not allow the audience to know what is going on. The quick style Mtv editing is abundant, and it quickly becomes apparent that you will end up very dizzy by the end of the film. The director/writer has dragged together an eclectic cast to compliment Wesley Snipes, which includes the sizzling Jessica Biel, along with two more experienced actresses who should know better; Parker Posey and Natasha Lyonne, and Kris Kristofferson returns also; and WWF wrestler Triple H joins in the fun too. Wesley Snipes has made his name playing the human/vampire hybrid in this comic strip movie series, and with this performance he seems like an actor bored with his work. Whether or not that's because of the extremely thin caricature that Snipes has been given to work with this time round, or maybe it's because he's fed up of 'more of the same'. Anyway, Blade Trinity is quality entertainment. What it lacks in depth, it makes up for in coolness and action and if you liked the first two, you might as well see this one as well.