So Awful it was funny

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2004)

My husband and I had already read the rotten tomatoes review that gave it a dismal 24% but wanted to see it for ourselves. It was bad almost from the start. All the main actors (especially Richard Roxburgh as Dracula and Kate Beckinsale as the princess) had terrible accents and seemed to lose all acting ability. The story was poorly written, every cliché known to man was used, and the editing was very choppy. It seemed more like a comedy spoof than a serious film and we laughed the whole movie. For instance the part where Van Helsing as the werewolf was fighting Dracula. Dracula got cut and had his blood on his fingers and did some hilarious number where he stopped fighting and was deciding whether to lick his blood off of his fingers. I was in the floor rolling because his acting was so bad and the scene was just out of left field. This was a poor choice for Hugh Jackman. Even seeing his hairy rippling chest (does he have one movie that doesn't?) wasn't enough to save this movie.