Blade: Trinity 2004

Critics score:
25 / 100

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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Snipes is now the least interesting thing on the screen and appears to have zero connection to the Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit irony which this final chapter is trying to tap. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Posey continues to find work, and even in a movie as beneath her as this one is, she's always fully engaged. The rest of Blade: Trinity is content to coast. Read more

Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: Our obsession with style over substance is becoming pathological. When are we going to get sick of this stuff? Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Goyer makes a strong series debut as a visual stylist, though he's handicapped by his own, at times, bloodless script. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: As commanding as Snipes is, Blade: Trinity is not as involving as its predecessors, and Goyer seems increasingly to be primarily writing variations on the original. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Lacks anything vaguely resembling a plot, while failing to deliver suspense or thrills. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The only one who seems to be having much fun, though, is Parker Posey, camping it up as one of the vampires. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I hope this is the end, that it's three and out for the Blade franchise. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's silly, violent fun, sometimes mindlessly entertaining but hardly, if ever, engaging. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Blade: Trinity does nothing more ambitious than continue a sputtering franchise. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: While the first two movies were efficient if not highbrow entertainment, the latest film abandons even the pretense of having a story. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: One of the prime laws of the multiplex states that any action or horror movie series will devolve into ritualized violence, self-mocking camp, and egregious silliness by part three. Blade: Trinity is right on schedule. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Vampire stories are meant to be frightening. They're meant to keep us awake at night, trembling with fear at an oversexed man with overlong canines. After Blade: Trinity, it's time to put the gothic back in goth. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: A campy, vampy romp, with caustic sarcasm from Ryan Reynolds and former art-house princess Parker Posey making it all hum along. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Blade: Trinity is blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: With his chiselled face and geometric haircut, black leather jacket and stiff posture, Snipes shows an expressive range slightly greater than an obsidian column. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Brings this three-part tale of a vampire hunter (Wesley Snipes) to a close with more of a shrug than a shriek. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: By and large, the jokes fall flat, and the entire film often seems as fatigued as its star. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: [Goyer] achieves an equitable balance between grim gore and sneaky humor. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Trinity is a lighter shade of Blade, delivering brisk action and cutting comedy in equal measure. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: From what we can tell from the Blade series, vampires are as easy to kill as ducks and there's no limit on them. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The third installment of the Blade series is a choppy, forgetful, suspense-free romp that substitutes campy humor for chills. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's all about the gags and the gadgets and the body count, with shootings, impalings and explosions vaporizing every vamp in sight. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Blade: Trinity is a carbon copy of its predecessors. It's all kick-ass attitude and style without any substance to back it up. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It lacks the sharp narrative line and crisp comic-book clarity of the earlier films, and descends too easily into shapeless fight scenes that are chopped into so many cuts that they lack all form or rhythm. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: There's just enough comforting familiarity mixed with refreshing new characters to hold the casserole of a plot together. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: For a film whose story line turns on a miraculous feat of reanimation, this is a very lifeless effort. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The suck principle is making up for lost time. It's almost bad enough to implicate its predecessors. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: This has all the appeal of reheated, congealed blood. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: It all suggests a cinematic identity crisis. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Blade: Trinity won't linger in the memory long, but gives pretty good action eye-candy while it's going. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Aside from the effectively staged action sequences Trinity is cheap-looking and laughably inept. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Watching Blade: Trinity is like being rolled down a marble staircase in an oil drum. The movie is loud, dark, bumpy and not even a little fun. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If ever there was a case for quitting while you're behind, this Blade is it -- ready to be buried in a vat of garlic. Read more