Three vampire hunters are just as good as one, and with some stylized, guns-a-blazin' kung-fu action, Blade: Trinity is just as solid -- and as much fun -- as the first two movies.
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12/08/04
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Blade: Trinity (2004)
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Reviews Counted:157
Fresh:43
Rotten:114
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: The latest Blade flick is getting a little long in the tooth; critics call it bloodless, dull, rusty, and an assortment of other puns.
Theatrical Release:Dec 8, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $52,397,389
Synopsis: A ramped-up techno soundtrack bleats out adrenaline-pumping action tunes while leather-clad vampire slayers smash through walls and floors and ceilings, break windows with their bodies, and... [More]
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds
Director: David S. Goyer
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12/11/04
This has all the appeal of reheated, congealed blood.
02/09/06
Chances are that Goyer's cack-handed direction has killed a franchise he helped birth.
04/01/06
Goyer also wrote all three Blade films, so character misunderstandings can’t be blamed for the two half-realized plot lines crammed into one feature.
12/10/04
David S. Goyer scrapped what made the first two Blade films so much fun and replaced it with a cast and soundtrack that only a 14-year-old mall-rat could love.
12/04/04
Vampire stories are meant to be frightening. They're meant to keep us awake at night, trembling with fear at an oversexed man with overlong canines. After Blade: Trinity, it's time to put the gothic back in goth.
12/08/04
Parker Posey, in a series of increasingly scary hair-dos, [gives] a stumbling, zoned-out performance that could easily be interpreted as a cry for help.
12/01/04
One can’t fault Wesley Snipes for dragging his aging body for a third installment of the financially successful “Blade” series...**
12/06/04
Ryan Reynolds' endless tone-lowering, Blade-baiting quips temporarily distract viewers from the script's more pressing problems.
12/11/04
Most writers think you should choose one plot and stick to it. But Goyer decided that instead of going with just one plot possibility, he could go with several.
12/07/04
A pale shadow to the much superior first two films.
06/17/05
While the first two movies were efficient if not highbrow entertainment, the latest film abandons even the pretense of having a story.
12/08/04
Top CriticIt's silly, violent fun, sometimes mindlessly entertaining but hardly, if ever, engaging.
12/07/04
Top CriticReynolds, Biel, Posey, and Lyonne amble around a warehouse trying to out-snark one another -- call it Blade: The Real World.
04/01/05
If you're willing to put your brain in neutral and keep your expectations relatively low for this third trip to the well, Blade: Trinity ulimately delivers the goods
12/10/04
Goyer was simply the wrong man to set loose in this world, for now the once promising Blade franchise has been crippled by his unfortunate tinkering.
12/12/04
Diverting but dumb and more goth than gothic, Blade: Trinity builds up to a less-than-epochal smackdown.
12/09/04
Top CriticThe brow may be low, but it's perfectly manicured: Grade A production values abound, as does superior kung fu choreography.
12/08/04
It does have a few laughs, but it's time to end the franchise when the best thing about the movie is Ryan Reynolds' abs.
12/08/04
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