Blade: Trinity

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Blade: Trinity

Promotional poster
Directed by David S. Goyer
Produced by Avi Arad
Cale Boyter
Toby Emmerich
Written by Screenplay:
David S. Goyer
Comic Book:
Marv Wolfman
Gene Colan
Starring Wesley Snipes
Jessica Biel
Ryan Reynolds
Parker Posey
Dominic Purcell
Kris Kristofferson
John Michael Higgins
Triple H
Music by Ramin Djawadi
RZA
Cinematography Gabriel Beristain
Editing by Conrad Smart
Howard E. Smith
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) December 8, 2004
Running time Theatrical cut
113 min.
Unrated cut
122 min.
Country United States
Language English
Esperanto
Budget $65,000,000
Gross revenue $128,905,366
Preceded by Blade II
Followed by Blade: The Series

Blade: Trinity is a 2004 American vampire, Marvel Comics action film, written and directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to the first two Blade films. It is the third film in the Blade trilogy, following on from Blade and Blade II and it is based on the Marvel Comics character Blade, played by Wesley Snipes. The title alludes to the trinity formed between Blade, Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler in the movie. The story continues on in Blade: The Series.

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[edit] Plot

The vampires succeed in framing Blade for the killing of a Familiar (a familiar being used as bait when posing as a vampire). Blade, now in the public's eye and wanted by the FBI, is forced into hiding with his mentor, Abraham Whistler. A few days later, the FBI attack the hideout. During the siege, Whistler destroys the hideout after being mortally wounded, killing him in the ensuing explosion. The loss of his mentor allows Blade to be captured easily.

As the police prepare to hand Blade over to a group of vampires, Blade is rescued by Hannibal King and Abigail, Whistler's daughter. The two head a group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers, formed by Blade's mentor to assist him. Blade reluctantly joins the group after learning King was once a vampire. King and Abigail reveal that Danica Talos, who was the vampire who bit King, has located and resurrected the ancient first vampire, Dracula (who is referred to as Drake throughout the film). Talos hopes that by resurrecting Dracula, he (Drake) will help save the vampire race and eliminate Blade. In his first confrontation with Blade, Drake shows a sort of affinity for the "Daywalker", as they are both "honorable warriors" (somewhat ironically, while Drake is delivering his speech about honor, he is hiding behind a newborn baby he has taken hostage). During the beginning of the chaos, King is incapacitated by Drake.

Blade eventually learns of a bioweapon the Nightstalkers had created called Daystar. The weapon is capable of killing any and all vampires in a nearby area. However, there are two catches: The first is that Drake's blood must be infused with the virus. As he is the first vampire, his DNA is still pure, which, infused with Daystar, will make it work to its maximum capacity. The second: the virus has a possibility of killing Blade, as he is a half-vampire.

Blade and Abigail learn of the vampire "final solution", which involves several hundred homeless being kept "alive" in a chemically induced coma, trapped in body bags. This keeps in line with vampires needing live food sources if the entire vampire race were to take over the world. Blade has all of them put out of their misery, shutting down the bloodfarm and hindering the vampire "final solution."

The two return to find the Nightstalkers have been all but wiped out. The only exception is King, who has been kidnapped by Drake (disguised as Blade's mentor, Whistler), who had also killed the rest of the Stalkers and kidnapped a young girl named Zoe (Haili Page), the daughter of one of the Nightstalkers. Blade and Abigail have no choice but to rescue King from the Talos building where he had been chained and tortured for information, and where Drake also is hiding.

Meanwhile, King is kidnapped, chained, and tortured for information about Daystar. When this fails to get any information from him, Talos instead tells King that she will bite him again and leave him to feed on Zoe. Blade and Abigail eventually enter the building and the fighting begins. Abigail kills Danica Talos' brother, Asher (Callum Keith Rennie) and King kills Jarko Grimwood (Triple H) while Blade engages Drake in a sword battle. In the end, Blade impales Drake with the Daystar arrow, which draws his blood and releases it into the air, killing all the nearby vampires, including Danica Talos. Drake dies after promising Blade a "parting gift."

From here there are multiple endings:

  • Theatrical Ending: As Blade fought honorably, Drake gives him a "parting gift" by transforming his body into a replica of Blade's just before he dies. The FBI captures the body of who they think is Blade and thus call off their manhunt for Blade. However, in the morgue Blade's body changes into that of Drake's. Hannibal's voiceover tells the viewer that Blade is still out doing what he does, and that the war will never end.
  • Unrated Ending: The body captured by the FBI is Blade, but he's not really dead. He sits up abruptly in the morgue, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck[1]. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade retains his humanity or gives in to his vampiric thirst, thus becoming the new vampire messiah as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.
  • Werewolf Ending: The Daystar virus circles the globe and wipes out all vampires. Blade walks off into the sunset, his long battle finally over. The final shot is of the Nightstalkers battling a new enemy... werewolves. This version of the ending was used in the novelization of the film and is included on the DVD as an extra, however it was rejected for use in the film itself early on in production, due to similarities to the vampires vs. werewolves film Underworld, the incontinuity with the backstory, and for simply being too silly in Goyer's opinion.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Reception

The film's American box office take proved disappointing, at only around $50 million[2]. Internationally it was somewhat more successful, pulling the film's overall gross to $130 million, matching the first Blade's take but coming behind Blade II, which grossed $150 million worldwide[3][4]. Critics typically thought that Trinity was unbecoming of the rest of the series and lacked the quality of the previous films; it scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes[5].

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Blade: Trinity (soundtrack)

A soundtrack containing hip hop music and electronic music was released on November 23, 2004 by New Line Records. It peaked at #68 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #15 on the Top Soundtracks.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2136
  2. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blade3.htm
  3. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blade.htm
  4. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blade2.htm
  5. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_trinity/

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