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:

The final hunt begins.

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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 [France] 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

Triple H (aka professional wrestler Paul Levesque) impressed the producers with his work ethic and camera presence. New Line insisted that extra lines be written in the script to make his role bigger.

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Goofs

After Blade is arrested, the psychiatrist's jacket is alternately open/closed between shots.

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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

Referenced in This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

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Soundtracks

"When the Guns Come Out"
Written by WC (as William Calhoun), RZA (as Robert Diggs), Narada Greenaway,
Christ Bearer (as Andre Johnson) and E-40 (as Earl Stevens)
Performed by WC, E-40, P Dot and Christ Bearer of Northstar
Produced by RZA (as The RZA)

User Reviews

Disappointing

Wow, I have to admit to being really quite disappointed with this instalment of the Blade series. Two days after watching the film I can barely remember much of it at all. The first two were exciting, with punchy dialogue, impressive villains and most importantly, a hero, the man himself, Blade.

With Trinity we have no idea who this particular group of vampires are, their social standing, history, source of their power are all a mystery. They were just plonked in the film to raise the ultimate bad guy from his crypt and provide someone for Blade's latest sidekicks to pulverise-badly.

And then we have the ultimate bad guy, Drake, who isn't remotely imposing, let alone terrifying. Big boots to fill and I really don't think this guy is up to it. I was looking forward to someone imposing, sadistic, gleefully evil in fact. I didn't get it. What this guy reminded me of was Ram-Man from He-Man, but less frightening to his enemies.

The only reason I gave this film 4 and not 1 is for Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds), who steals the show from Blade the second he comes on screen. While Blade potters through the film not saying or doing much that I can remember, apparently this is whats called "brooding", King manages to keep all eyes on him.

King gets all the best camera shots AND lines. As far as I'm concerned this was his film and should have been a Blade spin-off and not another episode. Ryan Reynolds is far and away the star here.