film: blade: trinity (rating: 2.3)

[E-ric]

I checked this out last night.. I was very disappointed with it... The storyline is all over the place... The cheap humor was badly placed for the mostpart... Some of the dialogue sounded like it was taken from one language, translated to a few others, then to english... very short and gruff to say the least... The fight scenes were well thought out and executed effectively... Overall, a big disapointment...

 

[KaNdii kiSses]

Damn I was pretty excited for this movie as I loved the others, but with these sort of reviews I think i will wait to see it until it is out on dvd

 

[panty]

I can't wait! I love these movies and vampire movies in general.

Same. I don't think enough of them are being made...

 

[fairnymph]

It really, really wasn 't that bad guys. Or maybe you haven't seen all the crappy vampire movies I have. :D

I would give it a 2.5...nothing amazing, but it's not BAD. No, it's not as good as 1 and 2, but it's not horribly worse.

Jessica Biel wasn't half bad in her acting, and has an incredibly buff and hot body. That other young dude, King, was pretty hot too.

Overall I preferred this storyline to Blade 2 -- the whole sucker thing coming out of the mouth just didn't do it for me. But I like the idea of the original vampire.

I'm glad I watched it and enjoyed it. It was fun, with some good fight scenes (esp the last one between blade and drake).

 

[Finder]

Parker Posey is in this??

 

[fruitfly]

^ Sadly, yes:

Parker Posey is so often referred to as an “indie queen”—thanks to standout performances in Party Girl, House of Yes, and Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries—that it’s a mild shock to find her in Blade: Trinity, an action film starring Wesley Snipes. Usually, Posey specializes in brittle, fragile women, but here she bares her fangs as an evil vampire with a penchant for Tara Reid–style eyeliner.

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[sourlemone]

i saw it a few hours ago. it was a piece of shit, but an entertaining piece of shit at that.

but oh my fucking god, PRODUCT PLACEMENT

COULD THEY MAKE IT ANY MORE OBVIOUS?! They don't even try to disguise the fact now. The camera just focuses in on Jessica Biel holding an ipod, and blade or the other dude, can't remember, goes 'she's making playlists. loves to listen to music while she hunts' or something, then for a full three seconds shows you the ipod, panning down from the top with the 'apple ipod' logo or whatever clearly visible. shows her using fucking itunes, of course the apple logo always visible. It does that twice. THEN when they pull this phone off a bad guy, it zooms in on the screen with NOKIA written across the top and holds for a full 2 unnecessary seconds.

Apart from that, Jessica Biel is _fine_, and blade is badass. Wesley has some funny lines. I gave it a 3 for Jessica Biel, Wesley being badass and cheap entertainment value. The humour is cringe-worthy, though. Movies are so formulaic these days...the point to make of course is that if you're investing hundreds of millions in a film IT HAS to sell tickets/do well - so you resort to a formula. pity. they could've done much more with the movie. coming to think of it i should've given it a 2. ah well.

 

[fairnymph]

Yeah the product placement was pretty damn obvious. They showed a couple mac computers too.

I agree about the humour, some of it was really terrible.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Speaking of product placement, I should have known the movie was going to be a disappointment as soon as Blade hopped on a Buell motorcycle as opposed to the Ducatis that graced the second film.

Talk about a downgrade.

 

[fairnymph]

Btw I wanted to beat that bitch vampire up (the one played by PP).

 

[honEbee]

Ok I finally broke down and saw this yesterday. I would give it a 2.5 out of 4 stars.

I actually liked the comedy in the film. I thought Parker Posey was funny as was the other guy Ryan somebody that played King. Some of the lines had me laughing out loud.

Jessica Biel was good. She looked great and actually kicked some ass in the film. I was pleasantly surprised.

The new weapons they had were great. Original and cool. Even if some were a little far fetched.

What I was disappointed with was Blade's character took a back seat to the new group of vampire hunters (who I thought were a brilliant addition and hope to see more of if they make a new film but...they cannot replace Blade. He *is* what the audience come to see.). He seemed very flat and unemotional this time around. He spent most of the movie being rescued which I didn't like.

I thought most of the fight scenes were good. But there wasn't nearly enough of it. Where was the cool fight editing and close ups with 360 degree views from the last movie? That would have been great.

And the technology they had was too advanced. I couldn't suspend enough belief that some 20 something's who looked like they never went to college could come up with stuff that even Einstein would be confused over. Like how did they cure King? They brought him back from being a vampire for 4 years but they never tried to save anyone else? There were just a bunch of holes in this part of the movie.

I also didn't like the overall look of the film. It was very dark and overused black, white and brown colors. I didn't like they way they would play certain cuts over and over again. In other words whoever directed this should have been shot.

And yeah the product placement was lame and obvious.

And the main vampire sucked. He was awful. I thought the way he looked was stupid. And it makes me sick that every bad guy is dressed up in leather pants, open shirt and major chains hanging from their neck. For what he was supposed to be (the meanest, badest original vampire) he should have had some more skills. It was just pathetic.

In summary:

New vampire hunters = good
Blades low key new personality = bad
Pathetic "super" vampires = the suck

If someone else had filmed it and they had a better idea of what the original vampire was and could do I think this would have been great.

I enjoyed watching it. But it didn't live up to the other Blade movies. I hope they come back next time with a new director and a more pumped up, pompous Blade. And keep the new vampire hunters. They rock.

 

[BA]

(basically everything she said)

I liked this, I gave it 3 stars.

This one was better than the last, but not as good as the first blade. I don't think Wesley Snipes had more than 8 speaking parts in this movie, that was sort of odd. I thought the few laughs were cool, it added a neat touch to a vampire themed movie.

I didn't care for all that ipod placement, especially when it had nothing to do with the story. If she would have been on her back near death and whipped the ear buds out and slung the ipod around someone's neck to kill them - that would've been cool.

Jessica Beil looked great, and I thought she played a good part too.

 

[DigitalDuality]

The weapons weren't "that" great. The action seemed to rip off Matrix, the weapons in this particular film were rip offs of "Underworld". Watching the commentary, the director/writer made comparrisons between his trilogy and the matrix as if they were on-par with one another, that made me laugh.

And as much as i like Microsoft alternatives, the Apple ipod and computer obsession in here was ridiculous. There were scenes fit enough to be a commericial in themselves.

I felt it was sub-par compared to the previous two movies. I felt the storyline could have been elaborated on, and some of the acting was quite horrible.

It was mentioned that Blade now seems to be this one dimensional character this time around, and i agree, and it truly detracted from the film.

That being said, i like this trilogy. It's mindless entertainment and it's been a great way to modernize vampire movies..and it is better than most vampire flicks.

 

[fairnymph]

Yes unfortunately most vampire flicks tend to suck, and I have seen a lot of them (trying to see all ones ever made...).

 

[Belisarius]

I just saw this, and I must admit that it was much better than I thought it would be, though it still falls short of the first two movies for me. Hannibal King's (Ryan Reynolds) punch lines really help keep the flick afloat, and he's a welcome addition to the Blade universe IMO. A number of in-jokes, pop culture references and a few moments of especially chilling psychological tension are definite bonuses. Dominic Purcell's "Drake" is an interesting character, and also helps; Danica (Parker Posey) is more annoying and trite than menacing, though, and Biel's character is tres hot, but two-dimensional, and has a disappointing lack of dialogue or meaningful acting moments.

So I gave it three out of four stars, and would be game for a fourth installment should one come along (though I personally doubt it will happen).

 

[captainballs]

Man, totally not violent enough. Also suffered from a thin plot, etc, etc, etc. I will admit, the parts where they were trying to be funny, though, were sometimes kind of funny.