Tosh of the highest order

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2015)

And so Hollywood churns out YET another lame vampire film packed with rubbish CGI and action that looks like it's been choreographed by a hyperactive 5 year old. Seriously, who choreographs fight scenes like this? The action directors should take a look to their Asian counterparts to see what a real fight scene to look like, not deliver audiences this mess.
The story is non-existent and merely an excuse to shoehorn vampires into a real-life historical scenario. Benjamin Walker, who plays the titular character, is awful; artificial and wooden in his youth, and stupidly fake-looking in his later years. Supporting actors like Dominic Cooper and Rufus Sewell should know better, although Mary Elizabeth Winstead seems to be making a career of appearing in films of middling to poor quality.
The narrative lurches from one set-piece to the next, so there are chase scenes, fights on CGI trains, rubbish-looking battle set-pieces, and a plot so hackneyed that it should have been staked through the heart. In the end though it's the combination of poor quality CGI and badly choreographed fight scenes that make this so pitiful.