Blade: Trinity

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Thankfully, Reynolds (bearded, looking a bit like Jason Lee) adds some scrappiness and humor to a series that might otherwise have collapsed under self-parody.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

I don't know if it was intentional, but Drake seems to come out of the same sandy hole in which our troops found the cowering Saddam Hussein.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

This Trinity may be the least of the three--sound familiar, Matrix faithful?--but it's the closest in style and attitude to a pulpy comic book, an art form that doesn't need to be lofty, perfect or even sensible to tickle a dork's fancy.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Should reasonably please fans of the genre before assuming its place in the horror section of your local video store.

Variety Dennis Harvey

Won't linger in the memory long, but gives pretty good action eye-candy while it's going.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Has the great sleek, dark look of its predecessors and, most important, it has Snipes.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long, with too many scenes of Blade and his cohorts standing around in darkened corridors, waiting for their enemies to show up. The action, however, is as throat-grabbing as you want it to be.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The only one who seems to be having much fun is Parker Posey, camping it up as one of the vampires.

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

Director Goyer, who wrote all three Blade films, deserves credit for sticking with the character, but aside from the effectively staged action sequences Trinity is cheap-looking and laughably inept.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Swimming in computer-enhanced mayhem and a non-stop hip-hop-and-techno soundtrack, Blade: Trinity might as well come equipped with joysticks attached to the seats, so everyone can play along.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

But there's just enough comforting familiarity mixed with refreshing new characters to hold the casserole of a plot together.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

The story is a comic-book tale at its most basic level.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

What redeems the film...is that for every nonstop explosion, there's a hilarious burst of Reynolds' nonstop patter.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Big and dumb and loud and entirely past its prime.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Has a surprising number of problems: dire scripting, sloppy plotting and coffee-jittery editing, for starters. But its biggest problem is that Blade himself takes a back seat to a host of new and mostly uninteresting characters.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

By and large, the jokes fall flat, and the entire film often seems as fatigued as its star.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A choppy, forgetful, suspense-free romp that substitutes campy humor for chills.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Dull Blade just doesn't cut it.

USA Today Mike Clark

Kris Kristofferson, as a scaled-down old gray mentor to Blade, still looks like the visual equivalent of your five worst college hangovers.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Take away the film's attitude, and you're left with "Son of Van Helsing."

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A mess. 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.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Offers neither horror nor style.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

There's nothing beneath the flashy editing and self-consciously cool production design but a soulless adrenaline machine that's never scary and rarely engrossing.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The movie is loud, dark, bumpy and not even a little fun. You emerge into daylight bruised and battered, suffering a case of movie abuse.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Sucky vampire flick.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Dracula, who, as played by Dominic Purcell, has all the dark charisma and burning threat of a baked potato.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

No, it's the movie itself -- an unimaginative, generic affair memorable only for its incessant and flagrant plugging of Apple computers and iPods -- that should put a stake through the franchise for good.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Of all the missteps made and absurdities offered, the most glaring is the casting of what appears to be a steroidal Eurotrash pimp as no less than Dracula.