Blade Trinity: Perspective Hurts

This is the third and final installment in my re-viewing of the Blade trilogy, Blade, Blade II, and now Blade: Trinity. Read them all and enjoy as much as I did. Blade: Trinity (2004) — The most maligned entry in the series, for good reason. Excuse the pun (taken from the original Blade movie), but the series had definitely gotten long in the tooth by 2004. All the amazing talent from Blade II is gone, using that movie as a stepping stone to more fertile film franchises (Hellboy, pairing del Toro and Perlman from Blade II, also came out in 2004). Wesley Snipes’ performance in this movie is so wooden he might actually be an undead vampire at this point. And Ryan Reynolds… I’ll get to Ryan Reynolds. But most significantly, the genre had sped by this original comic book movie franchise. What the streets wanted had changed. X-Men (2000) had shattered everyone’s expectations, bringing serious actors like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in to give weight to the madness that is Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry in the same movie. And they had done that twice in the time it took Blade to come out with its third installment (X2: United was in 2002). Daredevil (2003) with Ben Affleck came out, but we try not to think too hard about it. Spiderman with Tobey Maguire (2002) had come out too, and it was now obvious that comic book fans didn’t have to settle for lesser known superheroes on the big screen and non-comic book fans could expect movies made about heroes they’ve actually heard o…