Boring and Dated.

Rating: 5/10 (24 October 2019)

Review:
'Bram Stoker's Dracula' is a gothic-horror film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
I don't know if this movie just took me off guard or if it just isn't a movie for me, but I really didn't like this film. A lot of reviews say that the director stayed true to the love aspect of the novel and didn't take it down a horror route that the trailer teased that it would be.
The movie follows Dracula (Gary Oldman) as he leaves the captive Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker (Winona Ryder), the reincarnation of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta. All the while obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) sets out to end the madness.
Gary Oldman is the best Dracula out there, hands down. He brought everything he had in this performance and he never held back. I can't say the say for Winona Ryder or Keanu Reeves as they seemed like they were sleeping through this movie. It was a shame because I didn't care about either of their characters at all. It was a weird role from Anthony Hopkins, I haven't seen him in such a abstract role as this, but he did a good job portraying Van Helsing.
There are some positives about this movie, such as the cinematography and the acting. The filmmaking is visually satisfying, and some of the special effects are downright amazing. Coppola's backlighting and use of shadows is creative and unique. I simply didn't like the story. This is a 2-hour movie and I was bored the whole way through. Also, while the acting was great, the actors were still portraying there characters as if they were on stage putting on a play instead of being in a movie.
Overall, this movie is so slow it's almost painful. The actors put on good performances, but it's nowhere what was needed for this movie to be a success.
2.5/5