Beautiful to behold.

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 1998)

Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is a beautifully realized film. The cinematography by Michael Ballhaus is like looking at a gothic painting. The set design is brillant and the score by Wojciech Kilar is great. Coppola must have found some of that old energy to bring this one to the screen. A lot of work has gone into this picture and it shows on every frame. The cast is good. There are stand out performances by Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Sir Anthony Hopkins. There is one bad flaw in the casting however and that is Keanu Reeves. Reeves is normally a good actor, but he is plain terrible in this one. I can't believe Coppola let that performance get by and onto the screen. The movie is a little overlong, but it was a treat to see one of cinema's masters at work.