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28 out of 37 people found the following comment useful :-
Will The "REAL BLADE" Please Stand Up!!!, 21 January 2005

Author: (tariqdj2002@yahoo.com) from South Africa

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As most negative reviewers(people who know what they're talking about!) stated : "Blade 1 & 2 kicked ass and was in a class of it's own in the action/comic book movie genera!"

This excuse, of a "made for TV" movie is not just an embarrassment to the Blade franchise, but to the entire industry!

Where do i start?>> Firstly:>> the movie is called "Blade", so where is he? Wesley Snipes is simply brilliant as Blade (no other actor could have been more convincing), now all of a sudden he's an 'Extra' in his own movie wandering in the Background looking ever so bored, with a cast of "American pie" wannabe actors taking the lead (they're even on the poster!). >> that's like having Britney Spears featured on a Public Enemy or Linkin Park track!>.

Is this another ploy from "white Hollywood" bringing in the "snow-white" crew to diminish the lead black actor's presence??

Blade works alone>> imagine Superman, Spider man or the Hulk with 2 human sidekicks?>> Ridiculous! They're more of a liability than assistance!!

Secondly, while we're on the 'sidekicks'>> since when are humans able to kick Vampires' asses? (that's like a Rabbit beating up a Lion!) What's the point of having Blade around?>>

They're barely afraid of the vampires>> Fighting for your life from a bloodsucking demon with your i-pod on?? Cracking wise-ass jokes every chance u get , even though a Vampire has almost killed u more than once>> "give me a f#*king break!"

3rd-ly: Where's the Intensity, Darkness, and Mind Blowing Effects from the first 2 movies?>> This was like watching a cross between a, B-Grade action flick(Chuck Norris)& a bad episode of Friends!

Then > we come to the casting and acting>. All Round Poor!!>> Why is Triple-H in this movie????? Why does Dracula look and portrayed even lamer than the one in Vanhelstink? (looks like a euro-trash porno actor) Ryan Reynolds?? Jessica Biel??? (with leading roles??) wtf! ** the casting director is obviously a genius!!!**

Blade 4 :>> Either kill Blade off in an attempt to keep his dignity! Or get Del Torro back to make up for this "Mtv Teeny- Bopper" Butt-Hole Fest!!

0.5 / 10>>>

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What happened to Blade?, 7 January 2005

Author: emobame47

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Why is Wesley Snipes sharing screen time with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel? Who cares about Hannibal King? I paid to see Blade kick butt, just like in Blade 1 and 2. I didn't pay to see Ryan Reynolds joke for half the film. I didn't pay to see Jessica Biel (hottest body in Hollywood) fake fight. Who cares about Whistler's daughter?

Blade the Vampire Hunter was a good film. Strong villain. Strong hero. Good story. Blade 2 was even better. A rare sequel that bests the original. Two strong villains for Blade to fight against. Good supporting cast. Good story and a director who gets it.

Blade Trinity is a joke: literally. The villain, warning spoilers ahead, is Dracula, if you don't know by now. Dracula: the original vampire--the baddest of them all. What a way to end the series, then to have Blade fight the first and the greatest of his kind, but Dracula does basically nothing throughout the film. He doesn't pose any real threat to Blade, or anyone else. He is just there, and Blade has to kill him, because that is what he does. The other vampires in the film seem to have no other purpose either than beating up Ryan Reynolds' Hannibal King, while the latter cracks one liners. I didn't pay to see a comedy. Jessica Biel is hot, but I didn't pay to see a Jessica Biel movie. I paid to see Wesley Snipes as Blade, and yet it is like he is cast aside for younger models. Wesley Snipes is the star. He has charisma, on screen and off. Jessica Biel does not, and I don't care about Ryan Reynolds.

I paid to see Blade. What happened to Blade?

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horrible mtv style garbage, 19 December 2004

Author: martin smith (generationterrorist93@hotmail.com) from Denbigh, Wales

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I loved Blade. It was new and fresh and beat The Matrix with the whole trenchcoat thing by a year or two (probably). A vampire kung fu movie? Genius! Blade II was more of the same and introduced a groovy new bad guy in the form of vampire mutant reaper dude. Anyway, it was good, but louder. I was looking forward to Blade Trinity. It's directed by the writer of the other two, how can he mess it up? I'd heard about Dracula's involvement, which is a logical step, and the casting of Ryan Reynolds who, although no action hero, is a funny guy. Reynolds was the ONLY good thing in this whole movie. I was begging for the end way before the closing credits. Blade Trinity has as much unintentional laughter as the finest Ed Wood movie. Dracula, or "Drake", is the worst bad guy I have ever seen. There is no development at all. It's simply, "Of course he's bad, he's Dracula." At one point to show us just how bad he is he threatens to drop a new born baby from a roof top (but not before giving us the crap "humans are weak" speech that Stephen Dorff did so much better in Blade). He is an insult to the character. Gary Oldman could kick that guys face in and make a cup of tea at the same time without spilling a drop. Even though the guy has been asleep for thousands of years because he became disgusted with the world (DRACULA!! Disgusted with the world?!), he looks like he stepped out of a Calvin Klein perfume advert. There is a two minute section where the movie morphs into a bad music video with Dracula strutting around in the city to bad hip hop music. I'm getting angry just thinking about him. There was never any question that Blade was going to kill him (but not after a boring one liner). The other bad guys were just as bad. All boring clichés, not an ounce of character between the lot of them. And whoever said Triple H had good line delivery? Which film was he watching? Nice to see the actor guy (forgot his name) as Parker Posey's brother in a major film but he is utterly wasted (hunt down Canadian apocalypse flick Last Night, it's awesome). For an action movie to work there at least needs to be a challenging bad guy (see Hans Gruber, Darth Vader, Agent Smith), if they don't work the hero doesn't work. If the hero doesn't work, you don't have a movie, you have a two hour iPod commercial. None of the good guys have any back story, none of them have any charisma, bar the aforementioned Reynolds, and I didn't care when any of them got knocked off. Blade was just as bad. By nature, his character is mysterious and silent and pretty hard to relate to, but in this he just stands around and says motherf----- a lot. There is no single moment where you say "Whoa, that was cool!" as there was in the first two. I think the best moment in the entire film is the opening voice-over about Hollywood being full of sh--. From there, I was just waiting to walk out. The nightclub scene in the original Blade is still the finest moment of the trilogy and, for my money, Dorff is still the best bad guy. Blade II was inventive and fun with cool junkie vampires. Blade III is an embarrassment. Total case of style (terrible and unoriginal) over substance. The direction is shoddy, the writing is worse. God help us if this guy is writing Batman Begins.

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Disappointing, 6 January 2005

Author: scruffysadie from United Kingdom

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.

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Third time's the charm... just not for Blade, 7 January 2005

Author: Grann-Bach (Grann-Bach@jubii.dk) from Denmark

First off, here's rumor control with the facts(don't worry, no plot spoilers): Yes, Blade does say coochie-coo to an infant. Yes, Ryan Reynolds basically plays a martial arts version of his character from Van Wilder. Yes, David S. Goyer overuses the 'fast-forwarding days' thing from the first film to the extreme. Yes, Drake/Dracula does resemble a Latino dancer from a music video. Yes, Blade's two partners are basically useless. Yes, there is some pretty ridiculous product placement, but that only bothers you if you let it. Yes, the vampires die in the same hideous display of flying sparks as in the second(OK, maybe I'm the only one who really thinks it's that bad, but come on... they're vampires... where do the sparks come from? The first, they vanished into ashes... that makes sense, sparks don't). Now, with all that said, the film really isn't as bad as many make it out to be... on the good side, some of the action is quite nice, and the pacing is hardly ever off. I wasn't really bored for a second during the film, and I credit this to the fact that I saw it with the right mindset... I didn't come in expecting a great movie that would redefine cinema... I came in expecting the third film in a franchise based on comic books, from an unexperienced director, after a first good film, and a second one that basically sucked. Hence, I enjoyed it for what it was: entertainment. Cheap, quick, leave-your-brain-at-the-door cost-you-the-price-of-admission two-hour entertainment. I saw this at the cinema, at the premiere in my town. The room was packed. There couldn't have been more than 10 empty seats, in a theater of about 300 seats. Granted, not everyone liked it equally much, and many didn't really react the way the film obviously wanted us to... but I didn't get the impression that anyone truly felt that their time in the theater was wasted. The plot is somewhat original(part of it, at least... the whole 'vampires planning to do something-or-other in order to take over the world' we've seen twice before). The pacing is good. There's pretty much constantly something going on. The characters aren't particularly well-written, but they (just barely) pass. The acting is mixed, but some performances stand out as truly awful: Dominic Purcell and Parker Posey. Now, I haven't Purcell in any other films, but I have seen Posey before, and she can act. The director is to blame for her performance. I mean, even Snipes seems off in some scenes, and he's done the character twice before. Jessica Biel at times comes off as a pretty little girl playing cops and robbers with the big boys, something that I also believe to be the fault of the director. The action is impressive, but at times(especially in the case of... uh... everyone but Wesley Snipes and possibly Triple H, or whatever that guy is called), the martial arts look very obviously choreographed. The special effects are great. The natural form of Dracula looks bad-ass, unlike another recent superhero flick(take that, Van Helsing; also, the final fight of this film to majorly kicks the ass of the cartoon battle that aforementioned flick ended with). The humor is juvenile, especially with all the excessive swearing. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't particularly mind swearing. Obscenities don't really bother me. But when someone says 'd*ck' over and over again... the word loses all meaning(and it didn't exactly start out with meaning to spare). Not a great film, but an enjoyable one. You want my advice? Turn on the film, and turn off your brain. For two hours, just enjoy what you see and don't think too much about it. If I have to compare this film to another one, I would pick Resident Evil: Apocalypse. You can take that any way you wish. One final note: I agree with anyone who says that the Abigail character listening to music while hunting is ludicrous. I recommend this film to big fans of the first two films(the first in particular) and fans of generic action films in general. Not as enjoyable as the first, but a bit better than the mess that was the second. Good for a single watch, but not much more. 7/10

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Not what I was hoping for, compared to the first two movies, 9 December 2004

Author: dcobbimdb

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Unfortunately this movie didn't have the impact on me that the first two did. I've been a big fan of Vampire movies in general as well as the first two movies of the Blade series, so I'm an avid fan of the subject. While this movie offered more in the comedy & comic book feel, it lost the originality, horror, and suspense IMO.

Pros – Cool new weapons & some plucky comedy. Cons – Lacked any kind of suspense / horror feeling, wasn't serious at all, more of a popcorn movie than the first two. Also a comic book cinematography feel that kind of bothered me.

Throughout this movie I never felt a single hint of being in a horror movie, but more so like a super hero movie (like with all Marvel comic movies). Now granted I'd say that the Blade series lingers more on the Sci-Fi / horror fence rather than just horror, but this movie was more like a comedy action and lacked any kind of suspense / horror. The first movie was pretty original, the 2nd was more darker and the mutated vampire strain definitely gave a good creepy & suspenseful element while building off the original storyline. However the third movie lacked any suspense at all as the main bad guy (Dracula, or rather his modern name 'Drake') seemed to lack any substance or omnipotence at all. You didn't fear him or see him as any real threat at all other than his ability to morph into other things which wasn't really used well; hence the suspense went down the tube…

The acting was okay, there was a much more comical feel to this one rather than the few one liners of the previous two movies and I guess that rubbed me the wrong way, mainly instigated by Ryan Reynolds (Mr. Van Wilder). While he was certainly physically fit for the part as seen in his torture scene, his relief comedy ways totally change the tone of the movie. Interestingly you never see Wesley Snipes all stripped down, wondering if he's been keeping up with his push ups… Jessica Biel is okay at best. She certainly kicks ass in the movie, but is not very believable in her character IMO and not very good eye candy either, so kind of a dud there. The other thing that really bugged me was her 'listening to MP3's' while doing battling, OMG this is so stupid and so Hollywood. You mean to tell me that she's willing and capable to give up her sense of hearing while fighting vampires, just to appear cool? Give me a friggin break. So unrealistic… Who ever thought up that idea should be shot, hanged, have there ears ripped off and never allowed to work in Vampire movies again… Wesley Snipes played his role same as the first two, kicking ass throughout and having a bad attitude to boot. I wasn't impressed by any of the fight scenes, yeah some of the new weapons were semi cool, but overall the action was nothing new, and the cinematography was so quick and close up that you really couldn't make out the action very well. The end / climactic scene was also a dud, quite befitting for the rest of the movie I recon…

I guess the other thing that bothered me about this movie was the fact that in the first two movies you get the impression that vampires are stronger, quicker and more durable that humans (hence the need for Blade), however in the 3rd movie you have Jessica Biel (who is human) as well as Ryan Reynolds (a previous vampire now cured / human) kicking ass all over vampire city. If this were really the case then vampires wouldn't pose much of a threat to begin with. So this aspect really bothered me as the vampires in this 3rd movie came off really weak and ordinary. They didn't come of mystical or powerful at all; even Drake wasn't impressive in the least. This had the net effect of stealing away some thunder from the Blade character as Blade actually gets rescued by his Nights stalker groupies rather than the other way around.

Overall the movie was just okay and is much more light hearted than the first two movies, for that reason it may appeal to a wider audience, but in doing so it lost me as a hardcore vampire fan. I couldn't take this movie seriously as the comedy aspect kept pushing through. Unfortunately when you mix Vampires with too much comedy you get crap for a result. Vampires are better suited for horror / suspense movies rather than this 'Hollywood / Please all' crap. Kind of a bummer…

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Doesn't suck or bite, but it's still uneven., 19 January 2005
Author: Spider-Lou from Bristol, CT

While I had some issues with the pacing, plotting and framing of Blade: Trinity, I still thought that this movie was fun to watch. I think the only real problem is that Trinity was slated to be the final film, and writer/director David Goyer seemed to have crammed two movies worth of material into one. I think New Line was a bit hasty in selling this as the final movie and he buckled under the pressure.

There are some neat action scenes, but I would have preferred the Dracula/Blade fight to not have been intercut by Van Wilder's fight with Triple H. There was never any real characterization in the first two Blade movies so don't expect anything here, either. Back story is actually back-seated, with the exception of following up on the opening scene in the first movie.

Blade: Trinity was more fun and humorous than the first two, but it certainly doesn't measure up in quality. We certainly needed more of Blade than Abigail or King.

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Decent third showing for Blade, but nothing brilliant, 12 June 2005

Author: The_Void from Beverley Hills, England

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.

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Destruction of a one-time promising franchise, 22 February 2005

Author: Omar Chopin

I remember the excitement my friends and I felt leaving the theatre after seeing Blade I in the theatre years ago (for the 3rd time). I remember telling my brother that I haven't seen a hero kick this much ass in a film since the 80's. This film, along with "The Matrix" and Jackie Chan helped bring martial arts back to Hollywood.

I remember leaving Blade II being disgusted by the acting by the acting Leonor Varela, but pleased to see Donnie Yen's fight choreography and to see Wesley Snipes' Blade kick even more ass this time around. Not as good a story as 1, but cool and violent nonetheless.

But trinity...wow. I'm surprised that Blade didn't have nipples on his costume with the immediate decay of the quality of the franchise. The responsibility lies completely on David Goyer as he finally was given the chance to direct he series he has written since it's inception. This film felt like it should have been on Sci-Fi channel or FX. Those good old days of Blade kicking ass are gone, replaced by Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds beating down brittle MTV vampires that couldn't hold a candle to Stephen Dorff's Deacon Frost. I don't even remember seeing Blade fight Dracula, with all the action geared towards his new sidekicks. That's like a Batman movie with Robin as the star. David Goyer now says he'd like to direct Thor......comic fans around the world should now panic as to what he sets his sights on next.

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Disappointing, but not bad, 30 April 2005

Author: jellyneckr

Upon my first viewing of BLADE: TRINITY, I was disappointed to say the least. However, after watching it a second time, I found myself liking it a lot more. The problem was that I was expecting BLADE: TRINITY to be the best vampire movie of all time since David S. Goyer was both writing and directing it. Unfortunately, it didn't end up being the best vampire movie of all time. That's not saying that it's a bad movie. It's a fun, entertaining, and stylish picture that's a vast improvement over BLADE II, but the film suffers from action scenes that are over edited and a poor performance by Dominic Purcell as an underwritten Drake (Dracula). Still, I'd recommend it to fans of comic book movies as long as they don't expect too much.

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