Blade: Trinity Reviews
Las Vegas Weekly
Trinity plays like little more than a second-rate TV pilot.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticIt's all about the gags and the gadgets and the body count, with shootings, impalings and explosions vaporizing every vamp in sight.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Palo Alto Weekly
Rookie director David S. Goyer has driven a wooden stake into the heart of this bloodsucker franchise.
| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Blade: Trinity is a carbon copy of its predecessors. It's all kick-ass attitude and style without any substance to back it up.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
The fight scenes are plentiful, the characters familiar and the end predictable.
| Original Score: C
Common Sense Media
For series fans only. Definitely NOT for kids!
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| Original Score: 2/5
Three Movie Buffs
Snipes reprises the lead role and is even stiffer and more robotic that he was in the earlier films.
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
Arizona Daily Star
Three exploding vampires are kind of invigorating. Yet 30? Not so interesting.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Premiere Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Boston Phoenix
[A] series that has yielded diminishing returns since Stephen Norrington's 1998 adaptation.
Netflix
Wesley Snipes's vampire hunter franchise finishes off not with a bang but a whimper.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
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| Original Score: 1/4
I hope this is the end, that it's three and out for the Blade franchise.
FilmStew.com
Even Parker Posey's turn as a campy vampiress feels phoned in, as if she is making bank in order to stomach the deferred or minimal pay of her next ten indie pet projects.
Movie Gazette
Ryan Reynolds' endless tone-lowering, Blade-baiting quips temporarily distract viewers from the script's more pressing problems.
Slant Magazine
Goyer flounders around like an indecisive movie buff indulging in every special effects-laden trick in the Directing 101 handbook.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Watching Blade: Trinity is like being rolled down a marble staircase in an oil drum. The movie is loud, dark, bumpy and not even a little fun.
Flipside Movie Emporium
If Blade himself can't carry a movie with his own name on it, then perhaps the time has come to hang up the stakes for good.
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| Original Score: C
