This review was originally posted in August 2012, and was the second installment of Snipes Month, following One Night Stand. This recut version loses 1m 12s from it's original running time, mostly from tightening the pacing and cutting down film clips; the closing credits song has also been replaced. I'm sure people will ask about two things: no, I don't hate Ryan Reynolds, I just found him obnoxious and out-of-place in this movie. And Abigail wearing earphones during a fight scene is far stupider than doing it in a car chase (like in Baby Driver). Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Ah a time in which Ryan Reynolds was universally reviled for being in Super Hero movies.

the funny thing is Patton Oswald regrets being in this movie as he should

This movie is so bad that I consider it to be non-canon. Killing of Whistler was pointless, and kinda invalidates his storyline from Blade 1 and 2. And that whole vampire genocide virus comes off as wrong to me when they spent Blade 2 showing that not all vampires are evil.

If I remember right, in the comics, didn’t the Nightstalkers consist of Blade, Ghost Rider and Dr. Strange? What a movie that would have been in 2004...

Considering Blade is a Marvel franchise, it would be funny to think that his character in this film is actually Deadpool

Thank goodness Ryan got rid of that franchise ender with Deadpool

ryan redeemed himself with Deadpool aslo he hated Green lanteen wich it was his own joke with the green suit in Deadpool

A LOT of this movie's problems could be solved by making things good for Blade at the beginning. Have it that Blade is killing vampires left and right so the vampires are cornered and fewer in number. Now it makes seance to bring back Dracula, and explains Snipes being a jackass. Introduce the Nightstalkers as wanting to join Blade but he's to high on his ego to give them the time of day. Then have Balde's ego bite him when Dracula kicks his ass and Whistler dies trying to save him. Whistler gets to go out like a bad ass and Blade's ego takes a huge hit. With Whistler dead Blade goes to the Nightstalkers for help. Here you can then explain Snipes still being an ass as a result of his shattered ego and guilt over Whistler's death. The Nightstalkers work with Blade to make a serum to take out Dracula, with a noted potential side effect being it taking out all other vampires, but obviously need Dracula's DNA to make it work. Cue Dracula coming in and the Nightstalkers show off their skill and help Blade fend Dracula off. Hannibal gets catapulted in the raid, Abigail gets some of Dracula's blood, they finish the formula and then go to rescue Hannibal and kill Dracula.

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10:35 Oh hey, the brother from Prison Break. Phelous: "STOP CALLING HIM THE BROTHER FROM PRISON BREAK." "Anyways, the brother from Prison Break..."

Oh man, Blade Trinity was bad. I hated so much about this. Especially Abigail and how she listens to music while hunting vampires. Girlfriend, the vampires will be able to sneak up on you! You need to leave the iPod at home! I'm hoping now that Marvel has the film rights back, Disney will ease up on not making R-rated movies, and we can get a reboot. One that keeps to the fact that Eric was born in 1929 Soho, London. Because in the comics it's canon that Captain America fought vampires working for Hitler. And Blade would've been a teen during part of WWII. So we could totally have things like Blade fighting Nazi vampires alongside the Howling Commandos. Course Marvel needs to get around to writing that sort of comic first, because I haven't found that they have. Then you can introduce Michael Morbius The Living Vampire to the Spider-man movies, then have a Blade/Spider-man crossover.

Well I’m really glad Ryan is Deadpool now 😅

And then the Virus mutates and targets humans, ending both humans and vampires forever.

This was a bad movie, but I actually liked Ryan Reynolds' character. He kind of stole the show and made himself even more interesting then Blade in his own movie.

11:21 this guy went on to become a game show host. Let that sink in.

"His eyes opening are CGI, as Wesley refused to do so in filming" Is that a joke or is that actually true, because either way, I'd believe you.

"A charismaless block of muscle." XD

I dont blame Snipes for not wanting to work on this pile of Bullsh*t.

I hate this film with a passion. It ruined the Blade character, it rehashes previous storylines, the fight choreography is garbage and badly edited, and most of all: the villains absolutely suck. With the sequels, you want the villains to be bigger and better than the previous films with goals that make sense. Trinity was a giant step back with that. In the first movie you had Deacon Frost. An ambitious, machiavellian young vampire who wanted to update the dated policies of the vampire nation and lead them into the modern era. In the second movie you had Jared Nomak. The black sheep of the Damaskinos family, the overlord of the vampire nation. He was the prototype of the Reaper strain, which turned people into vampire predators. Nomak was an exceptional warrior and was Blade’s equal in strength as well as goals as like Blade, he wanted to eliminate vampires but in the process created a strain worse than the vampire race. The villains in Trinity were a bunch of bush league, incompetent, nonthreatening, disorganize scrubs. Danica was so over the top, she was pretty much a SNL character in a action horror movie. Her brother was forgettable and was pretty much a glorified extra, triple H was an oaf, and Dracula was a boring, non threatening, pussy who wasn’t even a match for Blade. Hell, and the sword fight between the two, blade was toying with him. Even the legendary Dracula was getting dicked around by a half breed.

Honestly, kinda feels like Reynolds is just kinda playing Deadpool in this movie...

I miss these reviews

Snipes was supposed to do the opening narration...but he couldn't be bothered so they got reynolds

25:45 - *"Yes, it does! All the vampires are dead at this point!"*

3:44 I didn't know Deadpool was narrating this.

13:10 Snipes going waaaaay off-script there.

To be quite honest, even the front cover of the DVD looks vaguely like Snipes' head was photoshopped onto that body.

23:08 sounds like you're criticizing baby driver

I've noticed that since the Deadpool movies came out, some people tend to lose their sh*t if you criticize Ryan Reynolds' performance and/or character in this movie. Reynolds worked in Deadpool and its sequel because he was delivering witty metatextual gags in a storyline designed around that kind of humour. Reynolds didn't work in this film, because he was playing a character who was blurting out sex and fart jokes in what was previously a grim and gritty vampire franchise.

At least Dominic Purcell has Legends of Tomorrow now.

I remember seeing somewhere the writer of this film saying his original plot was meant to revolve around the blood farm and how the vampires were kidnapping people for the farm. The studio supposedly told the writer they wanted a bigger foe like Dracula and they wanted to attempt to grow the franchise by adding the Darkstalkers for a hopeful spin-off franchise. Wesley Snipes supposedly specifically hated the addition of the Darkstalkers to the franchise.

The night stalkers? They're ripping off Darkstalkers!

1:02-1:34 That is one of the most '90s things I've ever heard.

I always loved BMB, even if you never bring it back, I would love to see you reviewing Asylum films again.

good thing Ryan Reynolds has redeemed himself and Dominic Purcell is one of the best parts of Legends of Tomorrow

I *really* liked Parker Posey in this movie. She was so over the top, but she pulled it off somehow. I wish she was a villain in more movies... :(

26:18 clearly CGI eyes LUL he couldn't even be bothered to open his eyes!

Wild to see Paton Oswald in this flick. I've seen him twice live in my town and he was hilarious.

And thus, Ryan Reynolds and Patton Oswalt were banished from Marvel Comics adaptations forever.

Turns out, The Nightstalkers hunt a Werewolf next. I'm not joking.

Wasn't there a third ending where, after all of the vampires were whipped out, Blade and the other hunters started hunting werewolves?

Patton no! Now who's gonna help linguini cook?

9 years before Purcell starred in the masterpiece Vikingdom. I had no idea he was also in a Blade movie.

Me watching this film: "Why does Dracula look like some dude? Lame." Me watching the credits: "Wait, Dracula was played by Heatwave?"

I'm starting to think any 3rd installment of any past marvel film is cursed.

Funny thing is it wasn't for this film Ronald Reynolds would have never been Deadpool

0:46, Which anime related movie did he review?

This flick got it's ass kicked by The Punisher.

16:47 NATASHA LYONNE IS IN THIS?! This was a whole decade before she was Gaz Digby and Smoky Quartz!

This film was a complete mess and it shows in the crappy final product. Can anybody tell me if this dumpster fire is canon? I don't believe so and hope not.

Well in retrospect critics wouldn't be critics without crying about everything and nothing at the same time.

Why did the 2nd reviewer show up at the halfway point?

Maven is a perfect assistant for Vampire lore.

A Maven crossover, awesome!

This movie is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. It's bad... Oh, it's bad. But for some reason, I still get a kick out of it, and I always end up watching it whenever I re-watch the first two. Maybe it's because I was a dumb teenager when I first saw it, so I kinda have nostalgia for it? Who knows. But knowing about all the drama that went on behind the scenes does explain why it always seemed a bit "off" whenever I've watched it.

Now Blade is back with the MCU. What's funny about this film is that they went back to blade's origin comic "Tomb of Dracula" Blade started in that horror comic about Marvel's Dracula a distinctly different character than bram stokers. Who has those powers and teamed up with Captain America to fight Nazis. The Night stalkers also came from the comic.

Ryan is wrong... van Helsing was Dutch, not British

Hey in all fairness Ryan Reynolds is the best part of Blade Trinity and in all fairness Deadpool is the spin off his character needed

never ever have i said to myself..... i wish to watch a blade movie, and reached for Blade Trinity. in fact last time i saw Blade Trinity, was me dropping the disk on the floor and kicking it under the entertainment system shelving. i should retrieve it,.,, and go leave it at a bus stop.

At least Eureka and Stargate Atlantis got some props out of this with the giant dressed up shotguns.

My best guess is that Ryan Reynolds is in this movie is in reality just Deadpool trolling the whole thing

is there a link to the 1st review?

Stop goofing around Blade! Bonus if you get this reference

Dracula is such a weird choice as the main antagonist. Granted, I've never read the comics, so I have no idea if he is a Blade villain (although I wouldn't be surprised if he was), but it still doesn't feel right.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but I don't think viruses work that way

When I first saw this I couldnt believe how god-awful and cringeworthy it was compared to the first two. I like Ryan Reynolds and I don't mind Jessica Biel but they were both pretty terrible in it. I was surprised to see Paul "Triple H" Levesque the retired pro wrestler in it, he only had a minor role but he wasn't the worst part of this by far. Wesley Snipes' ego and piss-poor attitude contributed to it's overall badness in a major way. Blade one and two were really cool and entertaining, this was just shit!

Ryan Reynolds said he never met wesly snipes he only met blade lol

tons of fans seem to love Blade II, as much if not more than the first one. I personally didn't care for it. I started to tune out around the time of the first exposition scene after that action scene with the reveal of the elite vampire squad or whatever. maybe it was the cg. maybe it was because I was being asked to buy a homeless guy with a cgi "alien vs predator" face as the main threat (not that steven dorf was some ultimate evil, he was just a devious young punk who tried to take over a gang basically, and blade kicked his butt, which he would have done anyway, the only reason he had any trouble was because the bad guy cheated with magic). blade isn't a perfect movie, but it's still way more enjoyable than the sequels. "Trinity" just feels like a fan film. honestly though this is coming from a non-marvel fanboy who never read the blade comics, so ignore my opinion, if you want! ;)

10:33 Oh hey, it's the brother from Prison Break.

I just watched Blade Trinity for like the 100th time and while it does have many problem, for me mostly Ryan Reynalds, I dont see why people outright hate it. I am a HUGE blade fan and I have been watching the movies ever since I was a kid and I just cant understand the extreme hate for this movie. Well I'm here to find out... Edit: Ok 10 minutes into the video and I can see why people don't like this movie but my opinion still isn't changed... 2nd Edit: Ok 20 minutes in and I realize that I must have been brainwashed by all the badass shit in the movie to make me think that it's a good movie when it isn't. I still like it though so I'll call it a guilty pleasure...

Already, this long ago, an utter ignorance of what “begs the question” means. But nowadays NOBODY uses it for its original meaning,

i watch movie long time ago is bad but best scene is triple H

Biel chopped off Leatherface's arm. I think a feat like that gives her a Break.

did you enjoy Deadpool then ?

man..havent seen maven in years

My favorite part was Triple H beat the heck out of Ryan cause at the time he was still wrestling

12:07 That's kind of weird, Film Brain is looking at his fingers, I think he made a little mistake of something, I don't it looks weird to me.

This film was the dumbest thing to happen to Triple H ever since he was screwed over by stone cold Steve Austin.

13:10 he is right

My unpopular opinion I love this trilogy and will always see Wesley snipes as blade

Ah, Ryan Reynolds..xD He kinda did worst at the his some of his first roles (Green Lantern, that X-Men:Wolverine!Deadpool role, this one) haha. xD

Maeven of the Eventide, heh... haven't seen her in ages. Whatever became of her? Disappeared with Nostalgia Chick?

GOD, those first two movies really are phenomenal. And in completely different ways. I'll always remember this as being the first huge disappointment for me for a theatrical film. I'd seen bad movies before, I'd even seen movies that I liked at the time and disliked upon reflection, but this was the first time I can vividly remember going to a theater with friends, sitting through movies, and saying almost nothing to one another until we sat down for post-theater burgers and I just broke the silence saying, "So...that kinda sucked, right?" Fun fact! In Blade II, David S. Goyer and Snipes got along incredibly well, so much so that Guillermo Del Toro recorded a separate commentary track in which he basically dunks on and shits on Goyer non-stop. And Goyer and Snipes record one together as well! So they went from buddy-buddy to death threats and accusations of racism within the space of 1 movie.

wasnt there a werewolf scene at the end of the extended cut?

I think you managed to piss off my chemical romance fans everywhere. Worth it! 😂

Blade 3. Narrated by Deadpool

Its honestly so jarring when you compare this film to the previous installments and see the quality drop. Maybe they should of went with a different director instead of making david s goyer direct it.

FilmBrain: "And quit picking on Patton Oswalt anyway. He's funnier than you (Ryan Reynolds) are." (When the Deadpool films come out.) Me: You were saying?

I watched this movie for the first time only a few years ago after binging the all three. I loved the first two but by the time they revealed "Dracula" hidden in the pyramid I was already groaning. The only part I remember being good was the part where drake murders goths in the store. Everything else was garbage. Even more so since hanibal king was pretty cool in the comics as well as a good vampire plus Dracula! The king/god of the vampires is little more than a buff lackey in a stupid outfit to a bunch of dud villains.

Bobba d wesley snipes also had claimed that his paycheck was exempt forom his tax liability as we.l as some fees

Review liberty stands free.

Great review. You are funny. The movie was bad. It was so bad I had to look up a review to see things I probably missed. The one thing I hate the most is the ending of the boss scene. Time flies when I see you in 2012 to now.

The opening narration makes me realize this would have been so much better if deadpool had been in it

What pisses me off most about this movie is they make out like Dracula.. sorry..Drake, is this absolute beast, the original, the first of his kind, an actual threat for Blade but in comparison to Deacon Frost & Jared Nomak from the first two movies he's comes across a complete pussy. Looks like a catalogue model and in his first confrontation with Blade he fucking runs away! What! The only part he looks slightly menacing is the end sword fight when he switches to his demonic looking true form. Also hes dispatched of rather easy, the reapers in Blade 2 was a lot harder to kill than he was. Imo I think Reynolds is probably the best thing about the movie, at least he looks like he's having fun with the character.

The comment about Ryan is outdated, considering Deadpool ...And I just recognised Dracula as Heatwave

They could have easily made this a stand alone Nightstalkers film, and gave Blade a proper send off. Fuck everyone for blaming Snipes for not being a company man on this. Blade vs Morbius should have been the ending.

10:06 Well could you show it instead of talking about it.

One of your best reviews, Matthew. This and your Die Another Day are your best when ripping apart a shit sequel like this.

The studio from wht I read IMDb also interfered with prdouction and I think ofred reshoots to get a a pg 13 rating to get the series to compete with other marvel franchises like x men or spider man

That's not what racism means.