Story

1. Blood God
2. Nomak
3. Dracula

Characters / Performances

• Blade: He has to be my favourite character. He is the ultimate badass yet has an, albeit burried deep, underlying soft, compassionate side, shown in his caring for whistler and his protection of humans. Wesley Snipes fits the role perfectly both visually and in his performance, which is brilliant and really portrays the character as I remember him in the comics.
• Whistler: Like Blade, he is compassionate and caring, particularly for Blade; but also like Blade, he does a very good job of hiding it. I particularly liked this character due to the fact that he is a father figure to Blade and is the only family he has ever known and what happened to him, which I will not tell you, is very emotional. Kris Kristofferson was an excellent choice for this character and delivers the role beautifully. He seems to have a deep understanding of the character.
• The Nightstalkers: I liked the way these developed from a bunch of blade wannabes at the start of the film to ultimately the people who bought about the end of the vampires at the finale:
  -Hanibal King: He seemed a bit like the film's 'guy that gets beat up alot'. I was disapointed that the film starts with him being cured and not a vampire with powers to match as he was in the comics. However, the re-designed version of this character adds some humour to the film and Ryan Reynolds delivers this humour brilliantly.
  -Abigail Whistler: The out of wedlock daughter of whistler who appeared out of nowhere. Not to sure about this character and don't think she really added anything to the film, I think the writers realised this by the end so threw here a point by having here save Blade. If anything she was just a bit of visual entertainment for the male viewers of the film.
  -Sommerfield: Really liked this character, she did not let her blindness hold her back and, although she seemed weak at the start, it soon became clear she was the brains behind the nightstalker's operation. She was the unsung hero of the film, sat in the lab while everyone else took the credit, and developing the virus that would ultimately kill Dracula and, supposedly, the rest of his kind. Natasha Lyonne portrays this balance of weakness and strength perfectly and really displays the emotions of the character as if she was really feeling them.
• The Vampires.
  -Dracula: When I heard that dracula was going to be in blade trinity it nearly put me off, but it wasn't what I was expecting. It was nice and refreshing to see a modern, badass dracula as opposed to the cape wearing pompous arse we normally see and Dominic Purcell was the ideal choice to portray this, which he does with supream style. Throughout the film Dracula claims to be an honourable warrior but he makes use of a human shield (a baby) as well as a variety of disguises in attempts to avoid fights with or lure in blade. However, he does respect Blade at the end and saves him from the police.
  -Danica Talos: I'm assuming that many of the words I wan't to use to describe this character would cause this review to be removed, so I'll go with evil and scary. She has to be the most sadistic woman ever to grace a film. Parker Posey plays this role brilliantly and really allows the twisted mind of the character to 'shine' through.
  -Jarko Grimwood: Essentially big, dumb and brawny, so a wrestler is an ideal character choice. This character doesn't really have any layers at all and what you see is what you get.

When it came out, I would say it was the best David Samuel Goyer had done so far and it still competes with some of his more recent films such as batman begins and the dark knight.
5/5