A movie of two extremes: great and awful moments

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2015)

Coppola's version of the classic novel by Bram Stocker is a good film, but quite irregular. It quickly moves from excellent moments to ridiculous ones, and then to another fantastic scene, and so forth. There is a heterodox filmmaking, which mixes many different styles alternatively. It works properly; however, the problem is that while some scenes are visually astounding (like the Brides of Dracula, the powers of the vampire, the women possessions), there are also many ridiculously kitsch ones. Why the hell Coppola decided to show hemoglobin?! Why showing those Dracula eyes in the sky? That's so cheesy that perhaps even in "Twilight" that scene could not be included. On the other hand, off course any of the many fantastic parts of "Dracula" is much better than the best moment of the entire "Twilight" series. Gary Oldman plays a very frightening and bizarre quasi-androgynous master of evil. Winona Ryder is also charming in the role of Mina. Keanu Reeves is convincing as Jonathan Harker too. Perhaps the great actor who does not do a job as good as we could expect is Anthony Hopkins, whose performance as Van Helsing is tepid.