Not even the mighty Gary Oldman can save this Gothic turkey!

Rating: 2/10 (29 October 2017)

On the run-up to Halloween 2017, I once again watched this movie which was being shown on TV. Apart from the aforementioned superb Mr. Oldman, who manages to imbue his portrayal of Dracula with pathos as well as menace, the rest of the cast are clearly hell-bent (no pun intended) on over-acting each other off the screen. By far the worst, hammy and intensely irritating performance comes from Sadie Frost with a badly miscast Keanu Reeves coming in a very close second. I am afraid that Winona Ryder does not fare much better, and quite why Sir Anthony Hopkins involved himself in this movie miasma is beyond me.
The special effects which, at the time were state of the art, now seem a bit rickety.
What should have been a classic for all the right reasons has become a classic for all the wrong ones. What a missed opportunity.