Blade Trinity seems a smidgen too jazzed by its extravagant cruelty.
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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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Reviews for Blade: Trinity
Reynolds is particularly hilarious as the new sidekick who thinks Blade is taking everything a little too seriously, even if the vampires are trying to turn humankind into their personal blood banks.
12/08/04
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
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 CriticWith his chiselled face and geometric haircut, black leather jacket and stiff posture, Snipes shows an expressive range slightly greater than an obsidian column.
12/08/04
Top CriticThree 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.
12/08/04
Plays more like a collection of wild embellishments than a deeply satisfying movie.
12/08/04
Top CriticSnipes is now the least interesting thing on the screen and appears to have zero connection to the Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit irony which this final chapter is trying to tap.
12/08/04
Top CriticIt's a typical vehicle for comic-book corn with elaborate plot contrivances, assaultive explosions, stereotypical characters and a laughable sense of gravitas.
12/08/04
Goyer remixes Blade with less effects, more humor and new characters to achieve one hell of an entertaining ride.
12/08/04
It’s a 100-mph, 100-minute seizure-inducing music video loaded with leather, guns and Goth delights.
12/08/04
A campy, vampy romp, with caustic sarcasm from Ryan Reynolds and former art-house princess Parker Posey making it all hum along.
12/08/04
This messy action-horror film is by far the most unpleasant, most unwatchable movie in what's already been a pretty sketchy trilogy.
12/08/04
Brings this three-part tale of a vampire hunter (Wesley Snipes) to a close with more of a shrug than a shriek.
12/08/04
One of the prime laws of the multiplex states that any action or horror movie series will devolve into ritualized violence, self-mocking camp, and egregious silliness by part three. Blade: Trinity is right on schedule.
12/08/04
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.
12/08/04
Top CriticThis script is embarrassingly sloppy.
12/08/04
The weapon to kill the vampires makes no sense... It’s okay to have a stupid plan. It’s okay to have an illogical plan. But it can’t be both.
12/08/04
Three exploding vampires are kind of invigorating. Yet 30? Not so interesting.
12/08/04
Blade: Trinity is blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long.
12/08/04
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