Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2011)

It's not really Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's Coppola's Dracula, plus Oldman and Hopkins, and that's plenty. Lots of blood; more would have been better (I guess they wanted the R rating rather than X; too bad). Oldman is superb. Hopkins is funky, funny, eccentric, excellent. Ryder - well, I actually think they should have made her into a cousin visiting from America, and told her to drop the English accent entirely, because the accent is atrocious, and comes close to sinking every scene she's in. The costuming is stunning. Coppola's direction is very fine, with a few bumps here and there. I might just add that Coppola's commentary on the DVD is flat, bored-sounding, and almost entirely lacking in cool details - unusual for him and quite disappointing.