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Avoid Blade Trinity is one of the least imaginative and dullest movies i have ever seen. There is nothing about this film that sells itself to the viewer or the marketeer. The plot is extremely poor and cliched, we have the resurection of Dracula who is used by vampire assassins to hunt down and destroy blade. It is quite sad to see a film franchise which cleverly updated the vampire myth to the 21st century in the previous two films with it's moving away from fantasy/supernatural and towards science fiction (vampirism explained as a harpo-virus in film 2, crosses dont work in film 1) reduced to reliance on a camp update of the ultra-traditional (Dracula). The set pieces were ugly (no more trendy nightclubs or ancient ruins - just nondescript steel corridors now), the casting was diabolical (particularly Dracula and Blade's annoyingly comic male sidekick) , the dialogue was grating on the nerves, they even used some of the things they did in the other two films (eg when Dracula threatens to sacrifice an innocent child to protect himself from Blade - compared to film 1 when Frost did the same). The fight scenes were inferior to the first two films, there are too many fight scenes - if people just want to see choregraphic violence they can watch WWF. There is no atmosphere to the film. The main villain is a bad actor but to be fair the character he plays is a mess. How can a Dracula who has some sense of cliched 'honour' use a child as a human shield? How can a character who is supposed to be an arch villain - the martial equal of Blade - spend all his time running away from Blade? And then there is the scene in the fake-vampire shop were Dracula kills some poor kids because they verbally insult him, surely he would be above that given 1. his power and position and 2. the cliched honour i mentioned above. The characters that make up Blade's sidekicks are extremely forgetable and bland with the exception of the main sidekick who is memorable for all the wrong reasons...In a film which is supposed to be a brooding dark gothic sci fi/horror this guy sticks out like the Pope in Mecca, his lame efforts at providing comic relief and a contrast to Blade are truly irritating. Sometimes a film which falls far short in the traditional categories (plot, acting etc) makes up some ground in the arena of style. Blade I was one of the most stylish horror movies ever made, this film looks like it was made on a budget of $200,000. The only good thing about this film was the vampire dogs, it was a tiny speck of originality in an otherwise forgettable mess.