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Bloody good time
(4.5/5 stars) With a resume like Coppola's, the man can do pretty much anything he likes. Fortunately for us, he likes Dracula. This is a fairly faithful adaptation of the book and is very well made. Really the only "new" aspects he brings to the Dracula lore are a big budget and celebrities, which produce mixed results for fans of the vampire. The look of the movie is gorgeous and the effects are top notch, which is much more than can be said for most other films of the genre. Gary Oldman is amazing, as always, as the Count and Sadie Frost is memorable as Lucy Westenra. Conversely, Keanu Reeves, as Jonathan Harker, and Wynona Ryder, as Mina Murray, are woefully miscast and are quite forgettable. To this day I cannot figure out why Mr. Reeves was given this role and can only imagine how much better the film would have been with someone else in his stead. Anyway, we all know the story so I will dispense with the synopsis. As others have mentioned, this film does focus more on the Count's undying (undead?) love for Mina. As such, the film seems less like a horror film than it does a love story. Nonetheless, it is also very bloody and violent, with certain amounts of nudity thrown in for good measure. Ultimately, this is not a scary film, unless you happen to be exceedingly easily frightened, though it is a wonderfully made film that fits almost by default in the horror category.

TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES
I was disappointed in this movie on its offical theatrical release, I was expecting a horror film not a love story. I saw it twice in theatres just for my love of WINONA RYDER and grew to accept its plot of eternal love. GARY OLDMAN rocked the house with this performance as Dracula, and RYDER'S beauty is undeniable. Visually stunting, Gothically romantic. Other than that save your money. If you love goth, romance, and RYDER recommended.

Francis Ford Coppola's ~ APOCALYPSE DRACULA!
FFC's treatment of what may be the greatest horror fable of all time is a MIGHTY;ninth-inning,bases loaded,swing-and-a-miss STRIKE-OUT. From the first to last frame,the film is over-the-top WAGNERIAN opera. Visually it ranges from bedazzling to pornographically disgusting.Coppola's DRACULA rarely frightens.
The film has more in common with a(almost)controlled LSD trip than plotted horror melodrama. Art direction is both jolting and risible. Use of color/photography is satirical parody of classic HAMMER lush luridness.Oriflamme music,again,contributes operatic flamboyance that annoys rather than stirs or scares.

Anthony Hopkins'take on Vampire Hunter Van Helsing is often hysterically funny. [Scene where he's carving-up some healthy chunks of still-mooing rare roast beef after lopping heads off Dracula's buxom babes-in-blood-lust-Brides is too funny to believe.] Marriage parallel between Mina and Jonathan (Christian-pagan rite with more in common with John Boorman's Druidized EXCALIBUR sacrament)and Dracula's blood-initiation rape of Mina,in montage jump-cuts is equally ham handed and corny. Even Mina's friend Lucy(Sadie Frost)is played as come-hither parody of Victorian propriety.She's lusciously lewd and lascivious;a flaming red-haired Lilith,eagerly taking-on all COMMERS(including Dracster)whore...rather than the tragic heroine portrayed in the novel...

Overall Francis Ford Coppola's~Bram Stoker's DRACULA is a magnificent mess.It's like a trip to Monster DISNEYLAND with the Godfather of directors staging his multi-million dollar/
multi-sensory attack extravaganza as APOCALYPSE DRACULA!(Take some Dramamine and--almost--enjoy this exercise in supreme DIRECTORIAL self-indulgence.)

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