Movie=Novel, in a sense

Rating: 4/10 (13 May 2020)

It's a pretty poor movie but it's faithful to the novel in one sense....it's a pretty poor novel. The first 50 pages of the book are good but then it becomes deadly dull at best and ridiculous at worst. If you want an interesting movie you have to take liberties with the original novel. That's why most Dracula films are totally different. This film, though making changes to try to put some excitement into the story (such as putting the most interesting character, Dracula himself, into it beyond the opening, which doesn't happen in the novel) doesn't manage to create an interesting work. The least said about Reeves and Rider's acting the better.
A more faithful rendition of Stoker's Dracula is possible but it would be even worse than this and that's why it hasn't been done.