Just When Did Francis Ford Coppola Become Incapable of Making a Good Movie?

Rating: 1/10 (6 January 2009)

Francis Ford Coppola's atrocious version of the Bram Stoker classic is updated for the MTV generation.
Coppola eschews everything that made the novel scary -- atmosphere, creepiness, subtlety, things fluttering in the shadows -- and replaces it with gore, busy camera-work, shock editing and a relentlessly frantic pace. Oh, and did I also mention Keanu Reeves? Coppola's film claimed to be faithful to the original novel, and it is in terms of plot, but in every other regard one wonders if Coppola ever read it.
Cheesy and creaky as the old Universal classic is, I'd take that any day over this abomination.
Grade: F