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...fairness, it must be said that the script (by director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) breaks with sobriety to give someone, usually Michael Caine as Alfred, Bruce's faithful, fussy butler, something smart to say. Eventually, however, Nolan, who directed the tricky, widely admired Memento, must oblige the conventions of the big-budget action movie: darkly improbable weaponry, pyrotechnics, car chases (the Batmobile is admittedly pretty novel), editing that edges toward incomprehensibility...
...writing Batman during the day and Trinity at night and then went off to shoot Trinity,” Goyer remembers. “After finishing press for this film I’ll do touch ups on the Batman script with the director, Christopher Nolan (Memento). He and I both know that project will be the biggest thing we will ever...
...David S. Goyer...
Wesley Snipes has about two lines in the movie (One of them being, when asked whether he was ready to die, a reply of “I was born ready, motherfucker”) and that is okay, because Goyer understands that dialogue is really secondary when one can cover all plot points through images of perspiration, Jessica Biel washing blood off in the shower, and numerous, numerous phallic symbols (vanquishing vampires with a giant sword, shooting arrows with weird green goo in them into a target that causes a disease, vampire dildos...
Blade: Trinity, to its credit, is easily understandable, and has no pretensions of grandeur. In contrast to other vampire movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre, the comic-book movie, and in that sense it accomplishes its goals. It is action-packed. It involves copious explanations of weapon use. And it features a truly haunting sequence set at a vampire blood-bank that finally has the guts to honestly address America’s burgeoning homeless...