Waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (29 October 2004)

Too bad the writer/director didn't pay closer attention to the great movies he was homaging in this stinker. Way too much over the top action and NO legit storyline or character development left us not caring whether anybody lived or died. There were tiresome holes in the story you could drive a team of horses through - clearly Summer trying to shoehorn suspense into his story at the expense of continuity. Just another "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Lots of special effects and good actors wasting their time with a lousy script. The fellow playing Dracula wasn't too great though - lots of hissing his lines venomously without any interesting inflection or nuance to make him more than a cardboard villain. But you really can't blame the actors here. I doubt they got much direction and just had to do the best they could.