We've reached Blade Trinity the final installment in the Blade film trilogy. Hopefully more follow. I don't think people will be able to comprehend my love of this one. There's plenty of violence, there's a superhero, there's a pro wrestler and general mayhem. Critics hated this film, but I'm not a critic. I'm just a guy who likes movies and I loved it.
We start this one out with vampires exploring a tomb they think belongs to Dracula, the granddaddy of them all. See what I did there? I made a wrestling reference. Anyway, they want to keep Blade away so they frame him for murder. The FBI raids his base and they kill Whistler. Blade gives up after seeing his mentor and only real friend get shot, and goes to jail. The Vampires convince the FBI to just hand Blade over to them. He's saved by Abigail, Whistler's daughter and Hannibal King, Deadpool (don't try me, I can link Blade, to Wolverine, and to Deadpool).
They invite Blade to join their team and he accepts because he's not doing anything else anyway. Blade is informed that Dracula is back, and prefers to go by Drake. Since Dracula was the first, he can walk in sunlight just like Blade and plans to cure all vampires so that they can do the same thing they do every Blade film. Try to take over the world. Luckily, Abigail and Hannibal have a plan to kill all vampires, but they need a little bit of Dracula's blood.
Coincidentally, Dracula wants to test Blade and separates him from the crew. Meanwhile, vampires raid the Nighstalkers base and just kill everybody, except King and some others who were taken hostage. Abigail and Blade got get them and challenge Dracula. Blade loses but is able to grab an arrow shot by Abigail. He stabs Dracula and completes the formula, vampires start dying. Dracula says "okay, you got me," and dies.
We see the FBI looking at Blade's body and they declare him dead. False finish here, that's a wrestling joke. The body they see is Dracula who shapeshifted into Blade considering him the new breed of vampire. The real Blade didn't die, he went into a coma kept alive by his human half. He wakes up and gets back to work.
I don't care, this is the worst plot of the three and I loved it. Ryan Reynolds as a wise cracking asshole. Perfect. Paul Levesque the man playing HHH the wrestler, playing the bad ass vampire Jarko. You know he was bad ass because he had silver teeth. None of the other vampires had that.
The scene were Hannibal and Abigail rescue Blade is still one of my favorites. A vampire decomposing shattering through glass as a man with a name tag reading "Hello My Name is: FUCK YOU," follows behind it firing shots into the crowd as he pumps Blade full of adrenaline is so good. They instantly made King and Whistler threats by having the vampires rescue them.
Looking at some reviews for when the films were released for the first time it seems like people were upset with the presentation as well as the plots. Some went as far as stating that they tried to hard to present themselves as dark, edgy and cool when that's not what comic books were. The problem is, that's Blade's modus operandi in every comic. He's cool, calm and collected ninety percent of the time. He broods more than any other hero, yes more than Batman. He is edgy, he's over the top violent to the point where he attempted to kick Punisher to his death, because he was disrespectful.
I loved these films as a kid and I love them just as much as an adult. This is what superhero films should be to me. There's no forced romance. There's no fake character development like current Marvel films. There's no sitting through multiple films for slow evolution of characters like DC films. What you see is what you get with Blade and that's good enough for me.
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The movie that made me fall in love with Jessica Biel.
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