The first “Blade” movie was pretty bad so I was surprised when I found “Blade II” to be noticeably better. I am now even more surprised to find that “Blade: Trinity” is the best one of them all. While it is not exactly a good film, it’s a lot closer to what I wanted from the earlier movies.

Blade (Wesley Snipes “Demolition Man”, “U.S. Marshals”) is back again to continue his crusade against vampires. When he is framed for a crime by the vampires, Blade is forced into the public eye and subsequently captured by authorities. When he discovers that the vampires have brought back Dracula (Dominic Purcell “Killer Elite”), he must team up with the ‘Nightstalkers’.

Wesley Snipes is fine as Blade although the script still is not quite good enough for him to fulfil his potential. The Nightstalkers include Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel “Next”) and Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds (“Green Lantern”, “The Proposal”). While the Abigail character is okay, the Hannibal character becomes very repetitive with Reynolds’ constant jokes. Some of them are genuinely funny but it feels like he is trying to upstage Blade. The vampires are pretty much the same as in the other movies. Dracula looks quite disappointing (in both his normal and final form) and throughout most of the film they just call him ‘Drake’ (that’s pretty stupid).

I like the idea of Blade fighting Dracula (why didn’t they do that in the first one?) and some of the action scenes are pretty darn entertaining but overall, I did not feel very strongly about the film. It’s got some good moments here and there but it treads on a lot of the same territory as the first two movies. Most people seem to think this is the weakest one so maybe if you liked the earlier ones, you will agree with that but I think this one is the best.