Two hours of watching someone else play a video game.

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2004)

This was a very disappointing movie. So much unrealized potential. The sets and scenery were fantastic, a solid 10 out of 10, but the acting and screenplay were atrocious. Why does everyone in this movie have an accent? The Count sounds like Frau Blucher from Young Frankenstein. The female vampires, that spend way to much time flying around, sound just like Lorraine Newman and Jane Curtain when they did the SNL skits featuring the female equivalents of the Ackroyd/Martin "wild and crazy guys." Very distracting. The screenplay starts out loud and fast, like a trashcan falling down a flight of stairs, and the action never lets up. That is too bad. The dialogue is limited to thoughts eminating from the reptilian cortex...."Let's go over there." and "We must stop him." and other obvious and unnecessary bits of filler that add nothing to the non-existent story. Very sad. Great sets, pretty good special effects, but not much else.