Lavish style covers some deficiencies

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2013)

It's 1897 and it's been 400 years since he lost his beloved Elisabeta (Winona Ryder). Young lawyer Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) travels to do business with Dracula in Transylvania, but is imprisoned by the Count. Dracula travels to London to seduce Harker's fiancée Mina Murray(also played by Winona Ryder).
Gary Oldman is deliciously evil but Keanu Reeves is well overmatched by his acting counterpart. Winona Ryder is pretty but her role desperately need her sexuality. Director Francis Ford Coppola has created one of the most beautiful lavish Gothic film. It is erotic but it isn't sexy.
The movie looks amazing but it lacks the pace, the tension, and worst of all, it lacks the scares that a real Dracula horror should deliver. Coppola has built a beautiful piece of art, but not a great piece of story.