Maybe the best ever:Love never dies!

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2007)

When we think about Dracula,the images of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee from "Hammer" come to our memories(greased and backed hair and their fr ac in "pinguin"),but here Coppola wished to get close the more possible to the Irish drunkard Bram Stoker,then Dracula(a genial Gary Oldman) a former soldier of Christ fighting the Otomanian warriors on the 15th Century quits from God,because the turk invaders to hoax the romanian people are making believe Elizabetta(a talented Wynona Ryder)his dear beloved one was deceased,the young bride gets suicide in a moment of messing up,Vlad Tepes stabs a Holy Cross damning God and all the sacred mysteries,drinking the blood of the hurts of the Lord, Dracoul gets immortality,after 5 centuries a young lawyer Jonathan Harker(Keanu Reeves) is caged in the Dracula's Castle placed into Transilvania to can sell to Vlad the "Carfax Abbey" outside London, now Dracula traveling in a ship his deadly containers,the horror starts:a sailor was missing,Lucy (Sadie Frost)the rich girl and the best pal of Mina(Ryder again and reincarnated!)is bitten by the wicked spirit,Jonathan held prisoner along with 3 pretty vampire women(a gorgeous Monica Bellucci heading his bloody abduction)could escape to try to advice English people about the awful monster stalking in the darkness,when the Lucy's fiancé looked in a despair Van Helsing(awesome Sir Anthony Hopkins!)is called to combat the tainted vampire,and running through Europe to end his menaces against the human race.
Some observations:Why so ridiculous hairdo? Dracula looked in the beginning like a fag with 2 white giant balls in his head,an unnecessary long red jacket dragging across the floor,some kind of chronological contradiction between his arriving and his wild attack against Lucy, an interesting tribute to the original "Nosferatu"(the shadows over the wall showing his over nailed hands),a dislikeable scene almost gay with Jonathan shaving and cutting out his neck,the look of Vlad:a wolf,a black vampire,a white bat(when Van Helsing was blessing his "cave" Dracoul seemed to attack Van Helsing and allies,but Mina was his target instead),the long hair and mustaches like the original Vlad Tepes Dracoul never used in the classical movies of our childhood, Vlad could walk even in the daylight(Mina was met of that way),Bellucci dissolved the Jonathan's cross to suck him(but Dracula could not with another),yet with mistakes and "goofs" this movie is better than all the made until now,though if those wrong stuffs hadn't been the result may have been superior,but it's a good flick in all the cases.