Blade: Trinity
Our old friend Blade (Wesley Snipes) is back again, this time facing his most worthy adversary to date, Dracula, or as he likes to be called now, Drake (Dominic Purcell). However, the FBI has finally caught up to him, apprehending him after a lengthy fight that results in the death of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson, but seriously, Whistler's died like 20 times already, right?). Without him, help comes in the form of Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder himself, and Jessica Biel playing Whistler's daughter. Helping out Drake is Parker Posey and the WWE's Triple H. Their hope is that since Drake is a pure-blooded vampire, he could transform today's vampires into daywalkers. Of course, it's up to Blade and his new band of kids to stop them.

Blade has fallen into something deadly: a pattern. These movies, now 3 in total, seem to concern the same thing. Some vampire is better than the rest and Blade comes out to kill him. Ho-hum. Director and writer David S. Goyer seems to have run out of ideas and has come to rely on Matrix-like scenes while conveniently making things easier for Blade and his band (Where did the FBI go? How come the security guards didn't have any guns?). With the addition of Reynolds, an effort was made to add some humor into the mix, but most of the jokes fall flat. There's a nice car chase and some energetic action scenes, but those alone can't save this run-of-the-mill film that's clearly fallen from the first one. 2 stars