Bram Stoker You Say?

Rating: 3/10 (1 October 2013)

Francis Ford Coppola directs this version of the classic Bram Stoker novel that sees Gary Oldman as Dracula, who was tragically turned into a vampire after losing his great love. Winona Ryder plays Mina, the object of Dracula's desires, and fiancée of Jonathan Harker(Keanu Reeves) who traveled to Dracula's castle on a business deal and becomes his prisoner. Anthony Hopkins is Professor Van Helsing, a vampire hunter determined to destroy Dracula, and stop his evil.
Sumptuous costume drama is unfortunately an overproduced and laughably melodramatic version, that has a whole back story for Dracula and romance with Mina that has nothing to do with Bram Stoker, despite what the title would have you believe! Ultimately weighed down by the pretentious silliness that renders it absurd; a strange failure that nonetheless was quite popular in its time.