Bad acting and worse casting, with sparkles of bad dialogue and mediocre story

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2019)

Tom Cruise is just not a good actor, but it was worse in a role just not for him. Brad Pitt was too young to make a boring role more than that, boring.
Visually, is not that bad. It is fitting and the production value is there.
But the dialogue and story are just not good. Some attempts to make the movie deep are left to die alone, between repetitive scenes of Lestat (Cruise) trying to convince Louis (Pitt) to enjoy life as "above human" vampires. Louis, a depressed human (lost his family) choose survival as a vampire, only to realize how empty life was without love and morals (contrary to the hedonistic antagonist, Lestat, his creator and savor). But again, nothing is really explored. Sometimes, biblical, philosophical and/or poetic phrases come out of the protagonist mouths, but they are so intermittent, they just are not believable. The protagonists IQ go up and down and ideas and themes go nowhere.
They missed the chance to at least make a movie about homosexuality in those times (with vampires as the oppressed), because the subtext was there anyways. The vampire that gave eternal life was looking for a companion (a beautiful men) and the man that accepted had lost his wife. But Brokeback Mountain this wasn't.
Or maybe it is deeper and I just didn't get it (I won't waste time forcing myself to find meaning, like some vampires did in the movie)
Regardless and above anything else, the movie is just too boring.