Cheese Fest from Nam

Rating: 1/10 (19 May 2004)

I cannot understand why a movie production would put money in behind such a terrible storyline and terrible idea. I have seen films that pay homage to the great monsters of our time but this just rips that to pieces. Bram Stoker honestly will be rising to kill Steven Sommers in a fit to some how right the wrong that was this movie. I am sick to death of films being made purely to make money. This was in noway a good film. It was not slick, no sophistication that usually accompanies vampire movies. I could not take Dracula seriously, there was a comic relief monk. I strongly recommend avoiding this movie for the purposes of trying to put stop to Hollywood cheese. The ending was pitiful with Jackman looking into the clouds seeing Beckinsale's character uniting with her family, is this type of cheese really necessary, brutality is what was needed especially when dealing with the vampire of all vampires Dracula. Sommers has destroyed the story in every sense. There really is only one thing i can say had any substance in this movie and that was the special effects and they should not have been wasted on a film such as this. I seriously hope that the monster movies as a genre have not disappeared. I would love to see a more serious approach being taken towards them, maybe this is the movie that could change things, if movie directors are as disgusted with this as I am maybe it is possible, I'm looking for a solid monster movie from maybe someone like Peter Jackson to restore the genre to its former glory.