Blade Trinity
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Marvel's mutant vampire hunter returns in this third installment of the series, released as counterprogramming at the height of the holiday season. Featuring an endless series of explosive confrontations in which vampires are colorfully incinerated, "Blade: Trinity" should reasonably please fans of the genre before assuming its place in the horror section of your local video store.
Considering the plethora of vampires killed in recent movies, it's a wonder that any of the rapacious bloodsuckers still exist. But apparently they are still here wreaking their havoc, with only Blade (Wesley Snipes) and his mentor Whistler (an even more grizzled than usual Kris Kristofferson) around to stop them.
This newest adventure has the ever-taciturn Blade pursuing none other than a resurrected Dracula (Dominic Purcell), now known as Drake and looking like a fashion model/Goth rocker. Hunted by the FBI after being tricked by a gang of vampires into accidentally killing a human, Blade teams up with the Nightstalkers, a gang of human vampire hunters. The group is led by Whistler's daughter, Abigail (Jessica Biel), and a Han Solo type named Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds). Also part of the team is Sommerfield (Natasha Lyonne), a blind scientist working on a more permanent solution to the vampire problem. Their nemeses include a particularly strong-willed female vampire (Parker Posey, taking a respite from earnest indie films) and her cohorts (Callum Keith and pro wrestler Triple H).
David S. Goyer, who has written all three films in the series, takes the directorial reins for this installment, which is stylistically very much of a piece with the earlier editions. After the requisite explosive opening sequence, he maintains a suitably dark tone throughout and also infuses some welcome humor into the proceedings, whether having the stone-faced Blade murmur "coochie coo" to a newly rescued baby or introducing such colorful oddities as a vampire Pomeranian. There's also some very funny bits of dialogue, mostly delivered by the wisecracking Reynolds.
Unfortunately, the film, like its predecessors, is overly long and bloated, suffering from a sense of self-importance that reduces some of its B-movie appeal. What should have been a taut 90 minutes is stretched out to nearly two hours, with an overload of repetitive fight scenes featuring the usual highly choreographed kung fu-style fighting. Technical credits and special effects are reasonably impressive, especially considering the probable budget constraints.
Snipes remains his usual strong, mostly silent presence, though one might have hoped that the character would have been deepened a little by this time. Indeed, in this installment Blade disappears from view for long stretches, with the slack taken up, only partly successfully, by the Biel and Reynolds characters. Credit must be given for the unusually inventive casting, with such talented performers as Posey, Lyonne, John Michael Higgins and Eric Bogosian providing entertaining stints.
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