Blade: Trinity (2004)

Blade (Wesley Snipes) finds himself alone surrounded by enemies, fighting an up hill battle with the vampire nation and now humans. He joins forces with a group of vampire hunters including Abigail Whistler (Jessica Beil) and Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds) who call themselves the Nightstalkers. The vampire nation awakens the king of vampires Dracula (Dominic Purcell) from his slumber with intentions of using his primitive blood to become day-walkers. On the other side is Blade and his team manifesting a virus that could wipe out the vampire race once and for all. In the end the two sides will collide and only one will come out victorious, a battle between the ultimate vampire whom never knew defeat, facing off against the greatest vampire slayer while all around hilarity ensues.

Trivia: Based on Marvel Comics characters. Ryan Reynolds gained 25 pounds of muscle for his role as Hannibal King. Jessica Biel inadvertently destroyed a camera when she shot it with a bow and arrow during a scene (she was directed to "aim for the camera"). When Hannibal King is telling Blade about the return of Dracula, he shows Blade a copy of Tomb of Dracula #55. Marvel's "Tomb of Dracula" comic (#10 to be precise) was the title in which Blade made his first appearance in the early-1970s. The character of Hannibal King was created by comic book writer Marv Wolfman, who also created Blade himself. Hannibal King made his first appearance in "Tomb of Dracula" #25. The film crew was forced to be selective in their shots for various green-screen segments because neighboring stages were being used for the filming of I, Robot and The Chronicles of Riddick and those sets would sometimes appear within the frames (and edited out later). One of the television commercials for the film was recalled after one day of airing because it accidentally credited Jessica Biel as Jessica Alba. The car Blade drives in all three movies is a 1968 Dodge Charger modified with UV lights behind the front grille as well as numerous switches inside the car. After the movie the car was purchased by a man in Vancouver who kept the car virtually the same except for adding a 440 under the hood.

The tattooed vampire hunter is back, and this time he brought help. I caught this one on television with it's inherent "edited for content" so I didn't get the full on experience but what I got was just fine and at points unintentionally hilarious (due to the editing of certain words, as in a certain male body part being called a "who-who"). They killed of Whistler so we get Whitsler's daughter instead (personally, I would much rather see the 22 year-old smokin' hott, vampire kicking, bow and arrow wielding, body of Jessica Biel [see movie poster above], over the wrinkled decrepit hobbling 68 year-old body of Kris Kristofferson any day and twice on Sunday, but that is just me). We also get the wisecracking Hannibal King. He provides much needed comic relief so Blade can just concentrate on being a bad-ass daywalker. So after Blade, where there is a megalomaniacal vampire tries to take over the world by summoning the blood god, and Blade II where mutant vampires called Reapers try to take over the world, who would be a good villain for Blade to fight? Dracula of course. Okay, the name is hokey and makes you think of Bela Lugosi, but they do an okay job in changing around the mythos of Dracula to make him the original ancient one (at least several thousand years old) in which all other vampires came from and he doesn't walk around in a cape or stuff. So all in all a good vampire movie.