One of the greatest works of art I have ever seen!

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 1999)

I am absolutely outraged at some of the reviews I read about this beautiful movie. I can't believe that people said it was boring! How could you think that this movie lacks in story?! And come on, Gary Oldman gave the greatest Dracula performance of any recent vampire movies! He's right up there with Bela Lugosi. The acting in the movie was great! Okay, maybe Keanu Reeves did a bad accent and was miscast. But he was hardly in the movie past the beginning. Winona Ryder was spectacular as Mina. And one thing that I absolutely hated about some reviews was the fact that they say the movie wasn't scary. Of course it wasn't scary, it was a dark romance!The movie was a flat out love story between Dracula and Mina. That's what was so great about the movie. It turned the story of Dracula, a story filled with horror, into a love story.
The way the movie was filmed was stunning. The different ways Frances Ford Coppola directs the movie is astounding! The film truly is a work of art.

The cast was brilliant. Anthony Hopkins was amazing. Winona Ryder was marvelous. Gary Oldman did such a great performance as the cursed prince, who you actually feel sympathy for as the story goes on. Keanu Reeves was miscast, but he didn't ruin the movie whatsoever.
The story was excellent, absolutely excellent. It was great how the story was divided into three parts: 1) Johnathan Harker goes to Castle Dracula and plunges into madness as he discovers the terrifying secrets of the Count. 2) Dracula comes to visit Mina, and they fall in love. 3) Prof. Van Helsing and the main characters hunt down Dracula by train to stop him before he gets to his castle in Transylvania to grow strong again.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of my favorite movies of all time, and the movie is a grand experience in moviemaking. Everyone should go out and rent it, but don't expect to see a horror movie about an evil vampire, but a tragic love story about a cursed prince and his reincarnated princess falling in love during a very dark and horrifying time.