lördag 6 augusti 2011

Dracula (1992) Spoiler alerts!

Plot
Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) travels to Transylvania to help Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) to buy property in London. Dracula finds the photo of Harker's wife-to-be Mina (Winona Ryder), and becomes obsessed with her. Mina is, when Harker is away, visiting her friend Lucy (Sadie Frost), whom becomes very sick. Arthur Holmwood (Cary Elwes) orders for the Doctor, Jack Seward (Richard E. Grant), but he has no idea what could have happened to Lucy, and in turn sends for his friend Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) who says it is because of Nosferatu. Mina gets romantically involved with the vampire, without knowing who he is.

Mina goes to Romania, marries Jonathan, and keeps quiet about her adventures with the vampire, but after Van Helsing tells them they have to kill him, she agrees and follows, and her secret is out.

Opinion
This film is one of the worst Dracula films. They claim to keep to the book, but it is very few parts of the film that do. The effects are really poor made, and the ideas are poor in all.
Reeves makes a really bad impression, there is no love to be this role in his acting, and the love story between Dracula and Mina is just stupid. The Count becomes a vampire in the same category as Edward Cullen, Bill Compton and other "humanvampires" of today, and not the monster he is in the book.
The worst acting, among many really poor ones, is anyhow Lucy. She does noting else but swirls around in bed, and then explodes. That was not very nice.

I would not recommend to see this film if you want the magic of Dracula, nor if you want a nice vampire story. The only reason one should watch this is to see how poor it is.

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