Though he was always willing to put at least the minimum amount of effort into filming his fight scenes, Wesley Snipes had delegated less than 4 percent of his energy into making his body say and do things that resemble a human being capable of presenting naturalistic emotions. If Patton Oswalt is to be believed (and when is he not?), Wesley Snipes could not have given fewer s--ts on the set of Blade: Trinity, basically scowling his way to an easy paycheck and making the rest of the cast and crew miserable by refusing to take simple cues from the director. Snipes' reason for cashing in his acting chips apparently stems from his giant ego, which might actually win a kickboxing match with Jean-Claude Van Damme's at this point. He's only made a couple of films since Blade: Trinity that weren't direct-to-video martial arts-a-thons, and one of them was the gleefully self-referential Expendables 3, where Snipes' only job was to show up and play himself (tax evasion and all). Hopefully his respectable, bit performance in the 2015 Spike Lee joint Chi-Raq is a sign of things to come, but it's just as likely a single, last-ditch effort to prove to himself that he's capable of trying again.
