I liked Blade, I thought Blade II was decent, not as good as the first, but more visually compelling at points, but wow, Trinity is just excellent, the characters are there for once, Drake(Dracula, as it were.) is a great final villain for this series, especially after the utterly disappointing villain scene of the second, which was a notch down from the first.
The idea of wiping out the vampires using a virus was also a good idea, though it wasn't great, the jokes were hilarious, King really stole the show, and countless quotes come to mind, it seems whenever he speaks it's quotable.
His female Nemesis is also strange and funny, her twitching lipped hollow eyed delivery was exactly as many of the vampires featured should be, numbed by utter decadence in their American Vampire rule, which as opposed to the European stature, and rule, was far less so, and more pure, I think that's a great little social commentary and it gets more fleshed out in this film.
Paul Levesque(Triple H from the WWE) played a great secondary villain, almost as good as Donal Logue in the first movie, or even equal, I was afraid of excessive wrestling moves, but thankfully they were kept in a short, and powerful fight scene between him and Ryan's character Hannibal King.
Disappointments? Thankfully not dialogue, the fact that Drake didn't get more fleshing out, and the fact that none of the characters in their group got fleshed out, instead they were killed off, even a few tidbits would've been great.
I hate saying it but, not enough King! I've seen Ryan in quite a few films, and he's funny in some, and just barely passable in others, but I have to say, this is, in my opinion, his best role, and in of all places a Sci-Fi/Thriller/Action movie, who would've guessed? Overall, fantastic action flick, vampires were better this time around, their society was left untouched, that touching is what really saved the second one for me, we got a better feeling of how it works, but with this one we really went back to how the original worked, and improved on that, so the score is 8/10 for me.
The idea of wiping out the vampires using a virus was also a good idea, though it wasn't great, the jokes were hilarious, King really stole the show, and countless quotes come to mind, it seems whenever he speaks it's quotable.
His female Nemesis is also strange and funny, her twitching lipped hollow eyed delivery was exactly as many of the vampires featured should be, numbed by utter decadence in their American Vampire rule, which as opposed to the European stature, and rule, was far less so, and more pure, I think that's a great little social commentary and it gets more fleshed out in this film.
Paul Levesque(Triple H from the WWE) played a great secondary villain, almost as good as Donal Logue in the first movie, or even equal, I was afraid of excessive wrestling moves, but thankfully they were kept in a short, and powerful fight scene between him and Ryan's character Hannibal King.
Disappointments? Thankfully not dialogue, the fact that Drake didn't get more fleshing out, and the fact that none of the characters in their group got fleshed out, instead they were killed off, even a few tidbits would've been great.
I hate saying it but, not enough King! I've seen Ryan in quite a few films, and he's funny in some, and just barely passable in others, but I have to say, this is, in my opinion, his best role, and in of all places a Sci-Fi/Thriller/Action movie, who would've guessed? Overall, fantastic action flick, vampires were better this time around, their society was left untouched, that touching is what really saved the second one for me, we got a better feeling of how it works, but with this one we really went back to how the original worked, and improved on that, so the score is 8/10 for me.