A great pity

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2003)

From seeing the trailer I expected a movie about vampires with a plot. I was only partly disappointed.
The style of this production was quite perfect and effortless however it would have gained much more substance if the film makers had concentrated more on the plot and subplot ( which had great potential) rather than the excessive gore. While I understand the need to show violence as intristic to the situation, it contributes very little as the near invincibility of the creatures and their intristic violence makes harder to sympathise and pity their injuries , especially as the narrative is rather stiff - cold as are all the vampires, and thus we are alienated by it.
Showing vampires as cold blooded 'cool' creatures as seems to be the current fashion is contradictory to all the underlying emotion - which was so often suggested but ultimately underdeveloped.
This is one movie where excessive styleization and a great concousness of genre stereotypes manages to ruin the potential held in a good story, script and actors.