Truly awful

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2004)

This is the first time I have ever been tempted to walk out of a movie within the first five minutes, but since I paid 11 bucks for it, I figured I would stick it out. Hugh Jackman was miscast, and Kate Beckinsale looked great but her accent was horrible. Richard Roxburgh (as Count Dracula) was actually pretty good. He was the only one who really looked like he was having fun as he chewed the scenery. Unfortunately, he was the only one who took this route for his performance. The comedy was stale, the action was cookie-cutter, and the plot was uninteresting. I felt like this movie didn't know what it wanted to be. I think it could have been a pretty decent, campy, fun film, but instead, it just takes itself way too seriously and ends up scoring extremely high on the unintentional comedy scale as a result.