Vampires and witches can also have sentiments

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2012)

This is a good fantastic movie directed by the firm hand of Tim Burton who is a specialist in this kind of movies. It benefits also of a luxury cast with great performers such as Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. It's a story of a love-hate relationship between a witch (the beautiful Eva Green) and a man she transforms into a vampire (Johnny Depp) and has him buried for two centuries to punish him for rejecting her love after having induced by witchcraft the woman he loved to kill herself. When he is disinterred by chance he regains his place in his family's estate and the war begins again between them also because meanwhile his family had lost their local power to the witch although they ignore she is one. This struggle assumes physical aspects sometimes extremely violent and very well filmed and acted. But the final scenes are particularly moving. This good movie could be very good indeed were not for some loose ends in certain scenes not well explained by images or words. And of course in this kind of vampire movies we always must accept and take for granted the several gratuitous murders the vampire performs to feed on his victims' blood. And it proves also how vampires and witches can also have sentiments. One of the best movies of this kind after all and this kind doesn't allow much better by its own nature.