LogFAQs > #923948852

Inviso - This shit was confusing. Like, you have SO many characters in this movie, and the writing doesnt do even REMOTELY a good job of establishing who the central character is, or who we as the audience should care about. Youd THINK its Keanu, but hes halfway written out of the film early on. Winona Ryder? She feels like more of a tagalong to the main plot. Gary Oldman? Again, youd THINK so, but hes also the primary antagonist. As a result, theres no focus in the plot. You jump from Transylvania to London and back again, introducing secondary characters with plot lines that dont make any sense. The trio of dudes who are all TOTALLY cool with sharing some skanky redhead isstrange. Oh! And why the fuck is a vampire able to turn into a werewolf? I spent most of the movie thinking there was a secondary monster running around. Really, the acting chops of Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins are the saving grace of this film, because it wasstrange at best.

JONA - The film has a good atmosphere but the movies too long and the humanization of Dracula and the reveal of Mina Harker actually being the reincarnation of Draculas lover makes the romance uninteresting.

Karo - This is an awkward and disjointed attempt at making yet another Dracula film, with silly special effects that look like they were done in photoshop and acting so hamfisted and overdramatic it sounds like a 4kids anime dub. The title itself seems pretentious. Are all the many other adaptations not of Bram Stoker's character? Did they raise him from the dead to produce this movie? You better have read the novel or you will understand little of what the hell is going on in this mess, Dracula randomly getting younger or being a werewolf are things we are just supposed to 'know' or something and are not explained at all. Anyway Dracula moves to England and they have to kill him and shit. They know where Dracula keeps his coffin and so of course they go there in the middle of the night because that is clearly the best time to try and kill a vampire and oh my god hey lets leave the girl alone in the room with the window overlooking Creepy Vampire Abbey you'll be safe here. You literally have Van Helsing with you, how can you be so completely fucking stupid? The world didn't really need another Dracula movie, and it certainly didnt need one as awful as this.

Charon - A confusing, bogged down butchering of a classic story that seems so easy to write that it practically writes itself, yet someone decided that they'd ignore the ghost writer. Unfortunately, the film doesn't realize that you can't cram the entire book into a movie without doing a disservice to the source material. From the start it's hard to follow as we're introduced to a woefully miscast Keanu Reeves and then he kinda takes a backseat to other characters for the rest of the film. Dracula's transformations into the wolf are odd and it's not very apparent that it's even him, or why he has to be a wolf when he does it instead of a vampire. We even get this brief lesbian moment which seems... completely pointless. The supporting cast all just blend in together outside of the main 4 or 5 characters; Hopkins clearly is still in Lecter mode here and you can really get a sense for that. It takes me out of the film a bit because of that. As for Dracula himself, there's never any moment I feel I can see things from his side, which is kinda the whole point of Dracula usually. Oldman does a really good Johnny Depp impersonation though, sure. I was really expecting more out of this film and I was just shocked by how drab, puzzling and underwhelming it was.

Genny - I had such high hopes for Bram Stoker's Dracula coming into this and all I have to say having finished it is this: "WTF was that?" If this is a faithful adaptation of the novel then go ahead and cross reading it off my bucket list. 4.2/10
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