Blade Trinity

October 24, 2005

Rated: R Runtime: 105 min Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Comic book movies are the new action standard and Blade Trinity is right up there with some of the big ones. Not quite as comic booky as Spidey or X-Men due to it’s R rating, so in case you missed the first 2 Blade movies (loser) it follows more along the lines of The Crow or The Punisher (not that you would have seen them either if you missed these) due to it’s violence and pervasive language. Rock on! That would explain why we loved it so much.

Blade Trinity The first Blade film from 98 was kind of an experiment between Marvel and New Line. Both, were a bit hesitant and that is evident by the way Marvel and or New Line decided to list the fact that ‘Blade’ is a Marvel property by tossing in a little side text before the directors name in the credits told the story; Even if they won’t admit it. Blade 2 having been released in 2002 and comic book movies on the rise, they decided to display the Marvel name more prominently with the next one but unfortunately they still held back on the reins a bit too much for my taste. Now, we have the 2nd sequel and with the success of 2 Spidey films, 2 X-Men films, Hulk, Punisher and Daredevil there is no doubt this go round where Blade was created and how to bring him to life… Again. You will know from the first few frames of Marvel’s now famous promo trailer until the end credits roll that you are watching a living breathing comic book and just like the real thing, if you let yourself go and submerse yourself completely in the story… you will be entertained.

This being the 3rd in the series the movie does not waste time with who or what Blade is and gets right down to bidness. The story for this episode begins in the middle of a desert where some very cool looking vampire commandos bail out of a helicopter and head into an old pyramid to dig up their master where the story for the ages with this series continues; The vamps decide to dig up daddy and use his ‘pure’ blood to continue their quest to be just like Eric and walk in the light of day without fear or turning into a piece of flashpaper. You know the drill. Meanwhile back in the big city, Blade is killing vamps in a warehouse district until a few escape and he hops in his GTO to dispense a little day walker justice. They run… He catches and he slays. Yeah Yeah, hIgh Five. Everything is business as usual for our hero until the vampire clan catches the whole thing on film and somehow the video ends up on the evening news (plot point) and due to a little misunderstanding (spoiler) he gets hunted by the police.

The cops track him down; a big shootout occurs with Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), Blade and about 100 SWAT officers. Blade and Whislter deal damage, Whistler gets popped, Big KABOOM, all is lost… emotion, emotion. Blade surrenders, the cops take him into custody and start to question him. From this point there is a big jail break sequence with Whistlers daughter Abigail (Jessica Biel), who is so hot she could live on the sun and her partner Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds) who offers so many laughs it will have you doubling over. The 2 rescuers and Blade fight it out with the cops and a group of Vamps led by fang babe Danica Talos (Parker Posie) and Vampire Goon ‘Jarko’ played by former WWE World Champ, Triple H; Who I am happy to say did not suck… as long as he didn’t say much.

The rest of movie is spent trying to find out what was released from the tomb in the desert and why so many ‘familiars’ (humans that work for vamps) are running the city and more importantly how many tight shirts we can squeeze Abigail into (rarrrrrr). I am happy to say there are many.

3 words to finish this review: Go See It. Cool action, great hotty, many chuckles, decent gore, gun play out the yang and a car chase too. AND, the return of John Doe as an added bonus. In our book that is FIVE for FIVE for 5 fangs.

Posted by J.C. Edwards | Filed Under 5 Stars, Action, DVD, Dominic Purcell, Jessica Biel, R, Ryan Reynolds, Wesley Snipes