Blade: Trinity

I finally read Blade: Trinity as back up to seeing the film and it was great to have the extra bits and early shooting script information. It was a fun read and Im glad I picked it up to suppliment the story but does the author not have an editor? I agree with the spelling and grammatical errors being terribly distracting and this can only be attributed to an absentee editor. To say nothing of the "British-isms". If the writer is British that's fine, it's her job to write the book but its the editors job to **edit**. That was just annoying.

For a book north of 400 pages, "Blade: Trinity" was a very quick read. That is a compliment. With that many pages I would have expected the story to get bogged down and/or lose stride here and there. Instead, the author's pacing was fantastic. I was tossed from one intense scene to the next. At certain points in the action, I really could not put the book down. I read "Blade: Trinity" immediately after reading the only other novelization from this trilogy of movies; "Blade." The same guy wrote both scripts so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that the novels linked nicely. Interestingly, although "Blade: Trinity" made many accurate references to the first movie and book, any reference to Blade's romantic interest from the first movie is almost consciously excised from this third installment. One tiny peeve about the "Blade: Trinity" novel: despite the American cast, set and context of the Blade story, the British author of this book seems to have deliberately peppered the text with English cultural references. In books starring James Bond, Modesty Blaise or Dr. Who, passing references to eating a "cucumber sandwich," making a "flying rugby tackle," or Peter Cushing as Dracula make sense. However identical references in "Blade: Trinity" were out of place and distracting. Merely "sandwich," "flying tackle" and Bela Lugosi would have sufficed for any culture. The worst of these references is when the author describes a character as an "eighteen-stone" vampire. An average American reader does not have a clue what "eighteen-stone" means (it is 252 pounds for any curious Americans). Notwithstanding, "Blade: Trinity" was fun reading. Now I might just catch the movie...

First of all no one seems to have stayed past the end credits of the movie, because if they had they would have seen Blade alive and well and driving his car! The body at the end of the film was Dracula/Drake. He changed himself to let Blade go on fighting because he thought Blade, unlike the other vampires even, had honor. My complaints with the film were scenes mimicing encounters with Deaon Frost from the first film. Deacon kidnaps a little girl to use as a hostage and later throws her into traffic, Dracula kidnaps a baby and later throws it off a roof, both scenes forcing Blade to choose saving the hostage over killing the vampire. Worst of all was to resurrect the consumate vampire and then not do anything with him. Plus, the Nightstalkers, which was originally a comicbook series had nothing to do with this story. As for the book, as with the first Blade movie the story is based on an earlier script not the shooting script and gives considerably more details than the film, which make it worth buying.

I just got back from watching Blade Trinity, and all I can say is I'm half- deaf, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The action in this film is indeed jam- packed and leaves you breathless. Blade is once more the powerful, cocky emotionless statue he has always been with a few quirky bandmates now, the leader of this band called Night Stalkers a woman named Abby, whom is the actual daughter of Whistler. (I know, in the first Blade he said his family died but supposedly this was later when he re- married.) Abby grew up wanting to be in the same business and now is a lean mean killing machine with her high- tech cross bow. Her group helps Blade out with some new weapons including a fatal tool that could finish off the vampire race for good at long last. But they must hurry and do this for Dracula has come back, the true Dracula supposedly. He is quite modern and aside from what critics in the paper have said, pretty cool...er, for Dracula, or now he calls himself Drake for short. He's set out with a group of vampires (one being the wrestler Triple H, if haven't noticed) to destroy Blade and even Blade needs to admit he needs Abby and her quirky but intelligent Night Stalkers to help him defeat Dracula, and the rest of the race once and for all. The only dilemma? If this new tool hits Dracula, and all vampires are dead...what will happen to Blade? Blade goes on anyway though, knowing it's the only thing to be done. Dracula must go. So on they go in breath- taking and ear- deafening battles with many vampires and familiars with their great and very painful punches and kicks and finishing off with those awesome weapons they always have, not resting until they find Dracula, and save we humans from utter doom. What kept this from being five stars was just the mere fact of a few small things. Like there are some lame sex jokes, dogs that turn into vampires...just a few weird little things that are hardly in the film but still kind of silly. And possibly I just feel that Blade One will always be the best of the chronicles, even though Two and Three have been an excellent runner up. Blade has been one of the best vampire films to come along in a long while, and I am sorry to depart from it. But he left us with an action- packed, vamp- whooping film that will leave all a little deaf...and a little more safer.