Blade: Trinity (Marvel Comics Movie Review)

Plot
Recognizing that they're powerless to stop vampire hunter Blade, the vampires who rule the human race set up Blade to look like a serial killer, immediately prompting the FBI to go after him and put him behind bars. But more trouble brews - just as Blade realizes he's being pursued, Dracula, the biggest bloodsucker of all time, is released, forcing Blade to enlist the help of a dream team of vampire killers.

Jason's Thoughts
Blade: Trinity started out just as one would expect a Blade movie to begin - with Blade kicking ass and tons of blood being spilled. However, during the ensuing battle, Blade is set up and he ends up killing a human. Toss in the ultimate vampire with Dracula, and it sounds like the start of a decent story to me. Unfortunately, it went in a whole different direction.

Blade ends up being captured, and then freed by Whistler's unknown daughter, Abigail, and Hannibal, a former vampire. From that point one, Blade: Trinity becomes more about Abigail, Hannibal, and their vampire hunting crew with Blade taking a backseat to it all.

If there had been a (non-Blade) movie featuring this group of vampire hunters that gave them more of a background, it could possibly work. What doesn't work, though, is throwing this group into a movie franchise that has a cult following and pushes out the main star. Not to mention the fact that the two don't mesh well together at all. For example, Hannibal, played by Ryan Reynolds, comes across more so as Van Wilder than Van Helsing.

Aside from the lack of Blade throughout the film, the overall tone was different from the previous offerings. The seriousness and horror from the other two Blade movies have been replaced with product placement, cheesy comedy, and one-liners. All of the camera style effects that made the earlier Blade films great are nearly absent from Blade: Trinity as well, and the special effects aren't anything to write home about either. Who thought it would be a good idea for a vampire Pomeranian?

With Dracula, or Drake as he is called in this movie, as the main villain, you would think we would be heading for an epic battle between Dracula and Blade to bring this end of a worthy conclusion. Drake, though, doesn't fit the part of the ultimate vampire and the battle doesn't seem nearly as grand as it should have been. That really sums up Blade: Trinity as a whole.

Even WWE superstar, Triple H, who had a supporting role in this film, couldn't save Blade: Trinity from tapping out.

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