Too Many Connections

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2008)

I will say this...I agree with many of the afore-mentioned comments, that Oldman is the quintessential Dracula and that the actual cinematography of the movie is stunning.
HOWEVER, I did find major discrepancy between the book and the movie, which irked me to no end and ran the movie into the ground in my opinion. In the book, Renfield, the random man in the insane asylum, is just that -- a random man in an insane asylum. He was not, as the movie tried to show, a clerk similar to Harker. Also, there was no such romantic triangle amongst Mina, Harker, and Dracula. The vampire actually went after Mina almost randomly, as he did with all of his victims.
With all of these superfluous connections, the movie felt completely bogged down to me. I was bored almost to tears. Which is very unfortunate, because I do believe the movie could have been absolutely thrilling. Great potential.