Can Blade 3 make the cut?
Blade: Trinity, the third installment in Wesley Snipes’ vampire chronicles, sees veteran series scripter David Goyer get into the director’s chair
Film: Blade: Trinity
Rating: R (Violence, profanity, sexual scenes)
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey
Running Length: 105 minutes
Director: David S. Goyer
Showing at: Cineplex Garden City from today
Preview by: Sebidde Kiryowa
Blade: Trinity, the third installment in Wesley Snipes’ vampire chronicles, sees veteran series scripter David Goyer get into the director’s chair. ‘Third time is a charm’ they say, but most critics were quite sceptical about this movie’s superiority over it’s forerunners.
By his own estimation, Blade (Wesley Snipes) ‘Daywalker’ — the half-human/half-vampire, who stands between humans and the undead bloodsuckers, who prey on them — has vanquished well over a thousand vampires.
It is a remarkable feat of killing, but also easy because vampires vapourise immediately into ash when they die. No bodies to see.
In a case of mistaken identity, Blade accidentally murders a human being. “Killing a human is messy,†Blade’s longtime mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris kristofferson) observes. That’s putting it mildly, as the killing starts a chain reaction of events that threatens Blade’s very existence.
The vampires, it seems, believe the end game has begun and once they have eliminated Blade, they will conquer the human race. The powerful and ruthless vampiress Danica Talos (Parker Posey) travels all the way to the Syrian desert to retrieve a slumbering Dracula, now known as Dracula — whose bad guy name is ‘Drake’— (Dominic Purcell).
She is convinced that since the muscle-bound Drake is the first of their breed, he’s the one with the strength to assassinate their arch-rival.
Blade, now behind bars for murder (and thanks to the vampire leadership public ‘smear campaign’ against Blade, letting the world of humans know he exists).
Enter two warriors, part of a new group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers in the form of Whistler’s daughter Abigail (Jessica Biel) and Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds — National Lampoon’s Van Wilder) as a former vampire. Blade must join hands with them and together they must fight the bloodsuckers before they make earth a ‘planet of the vampires.’
“Snipes has made Blade his perfect cinematic alter-ego. Now if only someone could give the character a story worth telling, the pieces might all be in place for a great action/horror thriller.†— James Berardinelli,
reelviews.com.
“Blade: Trinity is a carbon copy of its predecessors. It’s all kick-ass attitude and style without any substance to back it up. Yet, where the first two Blades satisfied on a visceral level, this one doesn’t.â€- reelviews.com
“It lacks the sharp narrative line and crisp comic-book clarity of the earlier films, and descends too easily into shapeless fight scenes that are chopped into so many cuts that they lack all form or rhythm.†— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-times.
Rating: R (Violence, profanity, sexual scenes)
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey
Running Length: 105 minutes
Director: David S. Goyer
Showing at: Cineplex Garden City from today
Preview by: Sebidde Kiryowa
Blade: Trinity, the third installment in Wesley Snipes’ vampire chronicles, sees veteran series scripter David Goyer get into the director’s chair. ‘Third time is a charm’ they say, but most critics were quite sceptical about this movie’s superiority over it’s forerunners.
By his own estimation, Blade (Wesley Snipes) ‘Daywalker’ — the half-human/half-vampire, who stands between humans and the undead bloodsuckers, who prey on them — has vanquished well over a thousand vampires.
It is a remarkable feat of killing, but also easy because vampires vapourise immediately into ash when they die. No bodies to see.
In a case of mistaken identity, Blade accidentally murders a human being. “Killing a human is messy,†Blade’s longtime mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris kristofferson) observes. That’s putting it mildly, as the killing starts a chain reaction of events that threatens Blade’s very existence.
The vampires, it seems, believe the end game has begun and once they have eliminated Blade, they will conquer the human race. The powerful and ruthless vampiress Danica Talos (Parker Posey) travels all the way to the Syrian desert to retrieve a slumbering Dracula, now known as Dracula — whose bad guy name is ‘Drake’— (Dominic Purcell).
She is convinced that since the muscle-bound Drake is the first of their breed, he’s the one with the strength to assassinate their arch-rival.
Blade, now behind bars for murder (and thanks to the vampire leadership public ‘smear campaign’ against Blade, letting the world of humans know he exists).
Enter two warriors, part of a new group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers in the form of Whistler’s daughter Abigail (Jessica Biel) and Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds — National Lampoon’s Van Wilder) as a former vampire. Blade must join hands with them and together they must fight the bloodsuckers before they make earth a ‘planet of the vampires.’
“Snipes has made Blade his perfect cinematic alter-ego. Now if only someone could give the character a story worth telling, the pieces might all be in place for a great action/horror thriller.†— James Berardinelli,
reelviews.com.
“Blade: Trinity is a carbon copy of its predecessors. It’s all kick-ass attitude and style without any substance to back it up. Yet, where the first two Blades satisfied on a visceral level, this one doesn’t.â€- reelviews.com
“It lacks the sharp narrative line and crisp comic-book clarity of the earlier films, and descends too easily into shapeless fight scenes that are chopped into so many cuts that they lack all form or rhythm.†— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-times.