Blade 3

Posted on | December 3, 2004 | 2 Comments

Understand, I am a fan of the Blade movies. I thought the opening of the original was brilliant, the music perfect. Although the ending cheezed out (in a huge way), the idea remained solid.
The second brought an intimacy to Blade and Whistler’s relationship, which I find terribly interesting. The vampires were nummy, plus Ron Pearlman makes me fucking laugh. They were fun films with a dark sense of humor with lots of action and nice eye candy.

This final installment doens’t veer off the course plotted by the first two films. Set in random dark city, most of the action is over the top, and the characters are great. Hannibal King steals the show, and paired up with Danica (I think that’s how you spell it) – those scenes were just fucking classic. Abagail, while nice to look at, seemed like kind of a flat character. Whistler doesn’t get the zinger lines like he did in the first two, but his appearance in the movie is abbreviated. The concept is interesting (to kill the vampires with a virus), but there are moments in the film that are wasted, – like the blood farm.

Taken for what it is, a fun, action flick, I was pretty happy. Then again, I am easily amused.

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