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Perhaps the only dissenter on Tom Cruise's performance
Anne Rice's dark and maudlin tales are among my favorite in the vampire genre. However, I never bought Tom Cruise as Lestat. I am sure he tried very hard, but he never convinced me. I was sorry that Anne Rice recanted her initial vehement objection to his playing the role. Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas, on the other hand, were excellently cast. I read that Anne Rice patterned Lestat after a young Rutger Hauer. It's a pity he was too old to play the part in this movie, as he would have been brilliant in it.

Preformance & Entertainment
I watched Interview With the Vampire for the first time about a year ago, before I read the novel. I didn't like it that much, but decided to give the book a try because I love horror, and heard that Anne Rice was a fantastic writer. I heard right, and after I was done reading it, I knew that I must see the movie again.

With an amazing cast, this movie holds a place as one of my favorites. Quickly I would like to talk about what it is about. Lestat (Tom Cruise) is an older vampire who finds Louis (Brad Pitt), a sad, lonley man who recently lost his wife and child at childbirth. Lestat changes Louis into a vampire. Louis is still suffering. Lestat decides to give Louis a "child", Claudia (Kristen Dunst). They travel together, but begin to fall apart, and I will tell you no more.

Tom Cruise didn't deliver as well as I had hoped he would, but there is no doubt he gave a good performance. I always like the book better than the movie that follows, so this may add to my disappointment. But don't get me wrong, like I said, in the end, Tom delivers.

Brad Pitt absolutely amazed me. I never began to like his work until recently, after seeing Fight Club. I can say nothing more except that Brad's work in this movie is absolutely amazing, and to my point of view, captured Louis perfectly.

Kristen Dunst was amazing as well. She was pretty young when she acted in this movie, and as she said in a behind the scenes interview, she could never have truly understood the character and her feelings. Yet she manages to give a performance that could ask nothing more of her. A mature adult trapped in a young child's body- this is what Kirsten's character was, and she was amazing.

Antonio Banderas gave a good performance as well, although I don't think that the movie showed the real Armand. I pictured Armand differently, thought of his actions, feelings differently. I was a bit disappointed with this.

But overall, this movie really was fantastic. I would recommend reading the book by Anne Rice first however, or like me, you may find it a bit... blah =P

Not bad
Not bad at all, the movie is well made, structured, and last but not least, entertaining, Anne Rice's novel is captured spectacularly, although I must admit, it is corny at times but not much, it moves on as though it never happened, Tom Cruise plays Lestat beautifully but the true acting gem is Brad Pitt's role as Louie, absolutely flawless, I wish Neil Jordan would make "The Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the damned" into films, there is a film of "Queen of the damned, I know but it is terrible and I cannot stress this enough, TERRIBLE!, anyway, watch it

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