The movie started out quite well, generally speaking, but lost it's way quite quickly unfortunately.
I quite liked Nicolas Cage's Dracula, seeming somewhat reminiscent of later Christopher Lee Draculas, however much more deliberately amusing, but had some degree of menace going for it.
Renfield himself was also quite a nice character, Nicholas Hoult balancing darkness and light quite nicely.
I also liked the cop, whoever that was, damn, the victim group facilitator, and most of the characters. I liked how a lot of it looked, some of the ideas, but it all comes crashing to a halt there for me.
There are some good moments in the writing, effectively using Dracula within something of a narcissistic personality disorder victim narrative, however that's kind of as far as it goes. Well, not quite, it does other things, but nothing particularly interesting anywhere else.
It does a lovely link into the universal movies at the beginning, which was a nice touch, and there were some very nice touches, but it seemed to very quickly run out of ideas. Some pacing issues too, making it feel quite long for a 90 min movie.
I quite liked Nicolas Cage's Dracula, seeming somewhat reminiscent of later Christopher Lee Draculas, however much more deliberately amusing, but had some degree of menace going for it.
Renfield himself was also quite a nice character, Nicholas Hoult balancing darkness and light quite nicely.
I also liked the cop, whoever that was, damn, the victim group facilitator, and most of the characters. I liked how a lot of it looked, some of the ideas, but it all comes crashing to a halt there for me.
There are some good moments in the writing, effectively using Dracula within something of a narcissistic personality disorder victim narrative, however that's kind of as far as it goes. Well, not quite, it does other things, but nothing particularly interesting anywhere else.
It does a lovely link into the universal movies at the beginning, which was a nice touch, and there were some very nice touches, but it seemed to very quickly run out of ideas. Some pacing issues too, making it feel quite long for a 90 min movie.
