The greatest love-story of all time...

Rating: 9/10 (4 September 2001)

...Adapted to the screen. Count Dracula defies and denies God, when his beloved throws herself in the river, after having heard false news of his death. Therefor he becomes a vampire, a damned creature forced to wander the night, sucking blood, praying on people... sorta like a nocturnal lawyer.

So anyways, you know the story, let's not dwell in that. Let's talk about how Coppola made this film, one of the most beautiful at it's time, using great ambience and lightness in it's pictures. Many people think it's a horror-film, but compared to "I know what you did last summer", "Scream" and other abominations, Dracula is so elegant by comparasing.
The story suffers a little from the adaption. There is a lot of so on and so forth, and many of the characters seem weakly drawn, and vague. Directors have to remember that NO we did not read that seven thousand page epic of a story, before entering the cinema. This is, at times, forgotten by the director of this film.
But who cares? With Oldman, Hopkins, Ryder, Reeves and even Tom Waits, you tend to let the story slip out your mind, as you enjoy the violent, beautiful pictures, and the wonderful gothic score of Wojciech Kilar, ending with "Lovesong for a Vampire" by Annie Lennox, the greatest lovesong of all.
You're gonna see this one, and you're gonna love it.
9/10