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Terrific!
Let me get this right off my chest: this movie really isn't that scary, but it isn't supposed to be! This new version of Dracula featuring some of Hollywood's best young talent, and directed by the legendary Francis Ford Copolla is an awesome movie. The most faithful film to the book yet, this film is an incredible, artistic moviemaking masterpiece! The movie stars Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder. It also atars Anthony Hopkins, who does a great job in the film. Gary Oldman is fantastic as Dracula, and he is a believable, spooky character. Keanu Reeves is actually pretty good in the film, but he doesn't show up much in the role of Jonathan Harker. Winona is compelling as the distressed Mina, but every now and then she tended to bore me. It is still a great acting effort! The sound in Dracula won an Academy Award, and for good reason! The music is compelling and a bit overdone, with sweeping movie strings and broad percussion. But the sound is exceptional, and it made my ears happy.
Visually, Dracula is astounding, and it was acknowledged by the Academy in this category as well. The costumes are incredible, and the set design is the best in the last ten years. It captures your eye at a fast pace, and really the whole movie is fast-paced, stunning, and a great thriller. Buyer beware, this is not another pathetic slasher film, but I don't care because I am not much into those films anyway. Dracula is depressing, beautiful, full of energy, and bursting with compassion. It is a must-see, five star effort in filmmaking!

Coppola no more
Can not give a full review as ejected this film after 30 mins.
keanu Reeves is cringeworthy in his role and destroyed the film.
How can a man create the godfather series abd then make this dung???

Dragula
This had to be, without question, the worst version of Dracula I've ever seen, and that even includes the Jesus Franco version and the Cliffhanger episodes in the '80's. Oldman's performance was a bad joke, and he looked like a Carnaby Mod Rocker of the mid 60's as Dracula. The Dracula of the book wanted to be able to lose himself into the anonymity of a big town, no way would Oldman's Dracula be able to do that. The movie used techniques, like a rushing forward of the camera at ground level, that seemed more appropriate for a MTV video, when they were still doing that sort of thing. I honestly hoped Anthony Hopkins would make a good Van Helsing, but it turned out he played a dissipated Captain Kronos. Keanu Reaves was more wooden than the stakes you kill vampires with as Johnathan Harker. Winona Ryder could've been good but they took the level head heroine of the book and made her all to girlish, and they took they more dreamy Lucy and made her more like Mae West. On top of that, Coppola practically plagarized the Dan Curtis TV version of Dracula (1973), as scripted by Richard Matheson, and starring Jack Palance as the Count. That's where they originally linked the historical Voivode to the fictional Count, and had all that tripe about him looking for his reincarnated wife. Curtis used that angle earlier in Dark Shadows, and was probably inspired by the Karloff movie The Mummy. That's just how derivative this film was, and it had virtually no suspense or true horror to break this reviewers annoyance.

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