Pretty boys as blood-suckers - could have been much worse.

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2007)

Not as bad as I expected - given the lousy, baby-faced cast. Cruise clearly tries his best, but I emphasize - HIS best, which isn't much. Vampire fangs do not belong in the mouth of Cruise - period. Banderas is quite awful, as usual, as another gay-looking, unconvincing vampire, but his first appearance is thankfully reserved for the last third. Slater is fortunately even less present than the Spanish-accented gay vampire. Pitt is okay but looks rather silly with the fangs.
The good things about the movie are that it does have elements of originality while most vampire movies do not, and it's never really boring, plus I quite liked the morbidity of little Kirsten Dunst becoming a vampire and forming a strange trio with Pitt and Cruise. Visually solid.