Disappointing in many regards.

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2001)

This version portrays Dracula not as a suave Demon of the Knight, but as a whiny, love-struck, pansy of the mid-afternoon. The acting is excellent (with few exceptions), the treatment is excellent from a technical aspect. The camera work and special effects (with the exception of the train shots) are on par with the acting.
Nonetheless, this is really bad. Portraying Dracula as a regretful and tortured creature (such as Louie in Interview With The Vampire) is fine, but this guy is clinically depressed. Another error was making him too powerful, and trying to explain his origins. (Supposedly he became a vampire by renouncing God.)