Dracula Untold

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes

Well it's not terrible. But it really wasn't that interesting either. Actually it had some cool stuff in it. I think Charles Dance makes a great vampire. We really didn't need an origin story for Dracula or to see him sympathetically. But they tried to make it matter, and added in a 3 day of no blood drinking and you won't be cursed clause to up the stakes (no pun intended) but the unfortunate thing is that everyone already knows how it's going to end up so it's all for naught.

The was a great unintentionally hilarious scene involving Vlad sneaking around a monastery desperately trying to appear normal whilst avoiding shafts of light. The rest of the film is all dreary and serious, there's some cool fighting stuff at the start that soon gives way to big cg bat particle systems.

And then there's a questionable modern day coda. I don't know what they are going for there. are they rebooting dracula. Do they think we needed that scene for closure to the romantic plot line that didn't really work in the first place? Who knows.

There's some okay stuff here but it's pretty forgettable.