Great cinematography, way oversexed!

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 1999)

I enjoy Francis Ford Coppola, and the cast of his Dracula is great. But, while Coppola seemed to stick close enough to Stoker's classic, it was extremely over-sexed. The cinematography of the film is great and very intense. Gary Oldman plays an awesome Dracula and you find yourself having some compassion for something so creepy. But the movie was ruined for me by the excess nudity and sexuality. Stoker's classic was a Gothic horror, not Gothic eroticism, which seems to be how Coppola interpreted it. I had to shut it off after about the first forty-five minutes because of this. While Coppola is definitely an acclaimed director with a talent for film, I was disappointed and felt that Stoker would not have been impressed by this over-sexed interpretation of his great novel.