no wonder it was such a box office flop

Rating: 3/10 (16 April 2005)

There's not a lot I can say that is positive about this movie. The only thing I liked were some of the werewolf scenes because they didn't look totally like a video game unlike Mr. Jeckyl, who looked ridiculous. Hugh Jackman must have signed to do this movie solely for the paycheck since he's usually in good to descent films. Kate Beckinsale chose to do this even after the stupid Underworld. And as most people have already said, her accent was horrible. Dracula was way-over acted. It was one of the worst Dracula's that's been on film. It's like the director couldn't decide if he wanted his Dracula to be comical or taken seriously.
Part of the plot involves Dracula needing Frankenstein to use as a power source to bring his flying "children" to life. Those were some of the stupidest monsters I've seen. And his brides were terrible CGI when they were shown flying also.
As for the action/fighting scenes: they were terrible. Most of them were beyond unrealistic. Many of the scenes involving Anna, showed her jumping around almost like Ang Lee's Hulk. And she does all this amazing kung fu and falls 10 stories but never gets hurt.
FINAL VERDICT: Terrible action, abysmal story, mostly stupid special effects. Basically a waste of a large sum of money.