EPIC INTERVIEW WITH A REALLY HOT VAMPIRE!!(possible spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2004)

To tell the truth, I am a big vampire movie fan, and it is always great if there are some really hot actors/vampires to watch out for there. I admit I watched Interview with the Vampire only to see Brad Pitt as a vampire.

Seriously, did no one notice how HOT he looked?
Although I think Tom Cruise had a better role as Lestat, the unapologetically evil epitome of vampiric nature. I haven't read Rice's Chronicles but I think this movie is pretty neat in itself. Brad is stunning to look at, really, pardon me for repeating it, but he is. Cruise did a good job, at least the role of an arrogant, manipulative and positively evil vampire suited him very well. Kirsten Dunst as the child vampire Claudia gave a fine performance too. The problem was with Pitt's role - he is in his own words 'a passive fool'. I did not understand one thing - Louis (Brad Pitt) is portrayed as someone who was so forlorn and sad with his life after the death of his wife and child, that he 'wished to put an end to it all'. He says that 'his invitation was open to anyone' i.e. anyone who could put an end to his life. Well, dear Louis, how about yourself? Why couldn't he just pick up a revolver or something and kill himself? Why did he wait for others to do that? In one scene he actually provokes a gambler to shoot him at a game of cards. But he too, like Louis, doesn't have guts to do that.In my opinion anyone who is that depressed with their life should have no problem in commiting suicide and ending their anguish. So what was Louis' idea? Strange. In steps Lestat, taking a fancy for Louis and only too happy to make him his immortal companion. What happens after that, well you better watch the movie for that, it cannot be explained better in words. I only wish to comment on a few things. I heard that Armand the Old World Vampire who takes a fancy for Louis later on in the movie was indeed in Rice's book a seventeen year old. Now Antonio Banderas, even if he plays his role well, definitely doesn't look like a seventeen year old.
The movie is great to watch though because of its fabulous costumes and cinematography (almost all of it is shot in the night/dark). And Pitt's ember contacts are just fab... so cool! To summarise, this movie is worth watching firstly because of the mere fact that it is very different from most of the other movies in the vampire horror genre. It isn't cliched ( there are no crosses, or holy water or stake-through-the-heart stuff involved, in fact Louis dismisses them off as 'nonsense'). Concentrating more on the emotional torture and sensitivity of a soulful vampire, instead of his bloodlust, it is a movie in a league of its own. And as the tagline of the movie states, it's a vampire's epic tale of love, betrayal, loneliness and hunger. And it's compelling enough to be watched once even if you're not a vampire movie fan. Myself, well its different for me. See I have an additional reason for watching it again and again - a certain Mr. Pitt as a brooding but really hot vampire!
*PITT RULES* - THE MOVIE GETS **** out of *****