Very half and half opinion, some spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2004)

Having seen this film, and having read some of the comments here, let me first say this - I enjoyed it to a point, the plot was solid if not highly interesting, I liked the characters (for the most part), the action was good and the cgi (again most of it) was impressive
OK, so having got that out of the way, a few problems then arise. (Spoilers Ho!)
Dialogue - Surely one of the first rules of movie making must be to avoid pointlessly reminding people what happened ten minutes ago/ will happen ten minutes later? Again and again we get smacked with the reminders... must of the verbal gags are amusing, but then we lead into another problem...
Dracula - Sorry, sorry, I wanted to like him as a bad guy, I really did. I wanted to believe he was actually evil, I wanted to believe he was at least a bit more than your stereotypical 'I vant to suck your blood' stock vampire, but Richard Roxburgh wouldn't let me do it, and though I found one line of his pretty funny, and I'm certain it was what he was given in the script rather than him himself... He was good as far as it went, but you wonder if Roxburgh + better script could have done so much more...
Ending - for those of us who have seen it I think thats nuff said... Does anyone else think this director mustn't have liked Kate Beckinsale much? I totally agree with the deadly divan theory...
Beyond that, Jackman good, Beckinsale good, Faramir also quite good, brides hideously, hideously annoying... watch this if you like your action with a bit of psudo - history or if you love CGI or, oh I don't know, if its raining that day...
6/10