Review of Blade: Trinity (2004) by Allan C — 06 Sep 2013

When you look at director/writer David S. Goyer's credits, it might at first look pretty impressive. He's written the recent Dark Knight films, "Man of Steel," "Blade II" and even "Dark City.

" However, if you look closer, all of his film credits, you'll notice in his better films he's always paired with a highly talented writer and/or director (Christoper Nolan [Batman], Zach Snyder [Superman], Guillermo del Toro [Blade II] or Alex Proyas [Dark City]) to pull up his mediocre material.

When left on his own, you usually end up with David Hasselhoff in "Nick Fury: Agent of Shield" or even worse, you end up with "Blade: Trinity." Maybe Goyer is better as coming up with the general story outlines and arcs, and needs others more talented to put on the finishing touches.

"Blade: Trinity" was intended to create a spin-off involving Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel's characters, and to the detriment of the film this doesn't feel like either of the first two Blade films.

The first film has a stellar bloodbath rave opening, but kind of fizzled after that. The director that film, Steve Norrington, does get credit for creating an interesting character and world for Blade to inhabit.

With the second film, director Guillermo del Toro took the series to a whole new level of cinema fantastic and elements to appeal to comic fanboys everywhere. This third film, although rated R, feels incredible sanitized and as if it were meant to appeal to a wider audience, which causes the film to loose what made the first two films appealing.

This film has a solid case that includes Kris Kristofferson, Parker Posey, HHH, James Remar, Natasha Lyonne, Françoise Yip, Patton Oswalt and Eric Bogosian. Posey is particularly good as a main vampire villain.

Goyer does a competent job with the action, even if it's nothing all that unique or special. Still, this is certainly not a bad film. It's really just an incredibly disappointing film after the brilliant "Blade II.

" You get music by RZA, stunt work by Vic Armstrong, and Snipes again as the ultra cool Blade, even if he has to share equal screen time with the less interesting Nightstalkers.