Blade Trinity

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Blade Trinity

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Blade: Trinity (also known as Blade III or Blade III: Trinity) is a 2004 American superhero film written, produced and directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to Blade and Blade II. It stars Wesley Snipes, who also produced, in the title role based on the Marvel Comics character Blade alongside Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Dominic Purcell, Parker Posey and Triple H.

It is the third film in the Blade film series. The film grossed over $128 million at the U.S. box office on a budget of $65 million. On Rotten Tomatoes, Blade: Trinity has a 25% approval rating and a critical consensus that it "seems content to emphasize style over substance and rehash familiar themes" ,although the review in Rotten Tomatoes, the film received generally mixed reviews, praising Wesley Snipes and the cast performances and its action sequences but found its villain and storyline poor. It was followed by 2006's Blade: The Series.

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A group of vampires look for the hidden resting place of Drake, also known as Dracula—the genetic "father" of their species. They find him in an Iraqi ziggurat tomb, although not before, in a moment of blood lust, he kills one of them. The vampires capitalize on Blade's reputation as a serial killer and frame him for the killing of a human familiar. During the ensuing manhunt, the FBI locate Blade's latest hideout, and, during the siege, Abraham Whistler dies. With his mentor gone and surrounded by human authorities, Blade allows himself to be captured and arrested.

After both medical and interrogative sessions prove futile, the police prepare to hand Blade over to a group of federal agents, who are, unknown to them, vampires. He is rescued by Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler, Abraham's illegitimate daughter, both of whom belong to a group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers. King and Abigail reveal that the vampire Danica Talos, who once temporarily turned King into a vampire, has located Drake. Because he is the first of their kind, Drake is invulnerable to sunlight and much more powerful than modern vampires. Talos hopes Drake is powerful enough to kill Blade and make the rest of the vampires into daywalkers as well.

The Nightstalkers believe the vampires are too numerous to kill individually, so Sommerfield, their resident chemical specialist, has created an experimental bioweapon dubbed Daystar, an airborne virus capable of killing every vampire in the immediate vicinity. However, it does not yet work.

In their first confrontation, Drake tests Blade by drawing him away from King and Abigail, incapacitating King in the chaos. Although physically superior, Drake shows an affinity with Blade, as they are both unique to their race and "honorable warriors" by choice. While Drake converses with Blade, he uses a baby that he has taken hostage as leverage. When questioned about his actions, Drake reveals that he considers all humans unworthy of his notice and even holds his own followers in contempt. While investigating, Blade and Abigail learn of the vampires' planned "final solution": blood farms where brain-dead humans are harvested for their blood. Blade shuts down the victims' life support in an act of euthanasia.

The two return to find all the Nightstalkers but King and Sommerfield's young daughter, Zoe, dead; Drake uses the two survivors to lure Blade into combat. A posthumous recording by Sommerfield reveals that she has perfected a small quantity of the Daystar virus, but it requires the blood of Drake and may kill Blade along with the other vampires. Meanwhile, King is chained and tortured by Jarko Grimwood and Asher Talos (Talos' two lieutenants) for information about Daystar. When this fails, Talos herself tortures King by pressuring his covered wound with the tip of the high heel of her shoe. She also threatens to turn King into a vampire again and force him to feed on Zoe.

Blade and Abigail arrive and fight the Talos underlings and the building security force. After freeing both King and Zoe, Abigail kills Asher, King kills Jarko, and Blade engages Drake in a sword battle. Blade is seemingly outmatched by the stronger Drake, and all seems lost when Abigail fires the Daystar arrow but Drake catches it. In the end, Blade impales Drake with the arrow, allowing the virus to catalyze with Drake's blood and release into the air. The virus kills all the nearby vampires, including Danica. As Drake dies, he praises Blade for fighting with honor and tells him that through Blade, the vampire race will survive. Dying, he offers Blade a "parting gift"; he also warns him that, "sooner or later, the Thirst always wins".

From here there are multiple endings:

Theatrical ending: As Blade fought honorably, Drake gives him a "parting gift" by transforming his dying body into a replica of Blade's. The FBI retrieves the body of who they think is Blade, and thus call off their manhunt. Just as they begin the autopsy, Blade's body reverts into that of Drake's. Hannibal's voiceover tells the viewer that Blade is still alive somewhere, finishing the last struggles of the war; having rejected Drake's hopes of prolonging the vampire race, Blade's war will never end.
Unrated ending: The body retrieved by the FBI is Blade's, but he is not really dead. Drake's body is nowhere to be seen, hinting at his survival. At the morgue, Blade sits up abruptly, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade has retained his humanity or given in to his vampire thirst as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.
Werewolf ending: The Daystar virus circles the globe and wipes out all vampires. Blade walks off into the sunset, his long battle finally over. The final shot is of the Nightstalkers battling a new enemy: werewolves. This version of the ending was used in the novelization of the film and is included on the DVD as an extra.[2]

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Cast

Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks / Blade
Kris Kristofferson as Abraham Whistler
Dominic Purcell as Dracula / Drake
Jessica Biel as Abigail Whistler
Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King
Parker Posey as Danica Talos
Callum Keith Rennie as Asher Talos
Triple H as Jarko Grimwood
Natasha Lyonne as Sommerfield
Haili Page as Zoey Sommerfield
John Michael Higgins as Dr. Edgar Vance
Françoise Yip as Virago
Mark Berry as Police Chief Martin Vreede
Patton Oswalt as Hedges
James Remar as FBI Agent Ray Cumberland
Michael Anthony Rawlins as FBI Agent Wilson Hale
Eric Bogosian as Bentley Tittle
Ron Selmour as Dex
Christopher Heyerdahl as Caulder