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Rating: 4/10 (3 December 2006)

I must admit, I wanted to like this film. I like Hugh Jackman, but Kate Beckinsale is absolutely wooden in this. The CGI made it more like a comic book than it probably needed to look. This film suffers primarily from its inability to decide whether or not it is self-aware (like the Mummy and the Phantom) with making jokes and asides, or with being dramatic (as in Coppola's version of Dracula). This Dracula seems too campy and not quite sinister. Switching back and forth was a huge mistake.
The second problem with this movie is that too much is borrowed or sampled from other movies; too much Bond, too much imaging from the aforementioned Dracula. The high tech weaponry looks cool the first time out, but gets old quick. Much of the existing scenery is overblown as well, castles all out of whack with symetrical design and utility. They would have been better off sticking to formulaic horror movie. Someone call me when Anthony Hopkins plays van Helsing.