Blade: Trinity [2004]
Director: David S. Goyer
Actor: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Dominic Purcell, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, James Remar
Let me start out that I’m a big fan of the Blade films, so far. I loved the first one, I dug the second one, and the third and most recent one, Blade: Trinity, was very enjoyable. There’s a definite downward trend in the storylines and atmosphere of the movies, but each film has something unique. The first film had that desolate bleakness, the second film had Guillermo Del Toro ( read: oodles of style ) and this last one had…Ryan Reynolds and Parker Posey – a porneaux name, if ever I heard one.
Parker Posey played the evil mastermind behind the entire plot, and was fantastically silly, and Ryan Reynolds was just fantastic. I don’t know who he is, or what he’s done so far, but he’s a good looking, wise-cracking vampire hunter that brought a much needed dose of comedy and some talent to a film overrun with overactors.
The story is simple; a couple of vampires manage to find the tomb of Dracula, the first vampire to ever exist. They awaken him in order to take it up with Blade, the vampire’s nemesis. Meanwhile, Blade is having some trouble with the Feds ( enter James Remar, w00t! ) because they finally found out about him and his clandestine vampire hunting operations. Whistler gets geeked by the feds in a nightly raid on Blade’s pad, and Blade is captured. He is then rescued by the Nightstalkers, a anti-vampire guerilla cell made up of young people under the leadership of Hannibal King ( Ryan Reynolds ) and Abigail Whistler ( Jessica Biel ), Whistler’s daughter. Reluctant at first, Blade decides to team up in order to defeat Dracula.
Oh, and Dracula is a ruggedly handsome vampire with the ability to elongate his fingers. Ladies…spot the potential.
