The cruellest cut  December 31, 2004 Wesley Snipes in  <i>Blade
Trinity</i>.  Wesley Snipes in Blade Trinity. Photo: Supplied
The third Blade film has arrived to critical scorn. But director
David Goyer tells Jim Schembri why critics don't count.
Everybody on a so-called "star tour" for a film is naturally
primed to talk up the movie to the conga line of press that
shuffle before them.  Thankfully, David S. Goyer, who wrote the
first two Blade films and wrote, directed and produced the
latest, Blade Trinity, has done us a big favour by switching off
that part of his brain dedicated to pumping the film before he
even turns up for our interrogation.  He already knows we think
the film stinks.  In Blade Trinity, vampire hunter Blade (Wesley
Snipes) continues slicing his way through an army of vampires,
this time with the help of newcomers Abigail (Jessica Biel, from
TV's 7th Heaven) and Hannibal (a buffed Ryan Reynolds, aka Van
Wilder).  While the standardissue vampires conveniently
disintegrate upon contact i