Review of Dracula 2000 (2000) by Steven L — 18 Dec 2011

This seriously hurts the Dracula myth. Dracula is NOT Judas. The very Dracula novel will tell you that he 'must be the Dracula who fought the Turks'. That's Vlad the Impaler, born 1431 and died 1476.

NOT Judas. And I find the attempt to justify Dracula's limitations to tie them to the Judas story to be flawed at best. Okay, so he was paid in silver when he betrayed Jesus so he hates silver, he hates the sun because he tried to kill himself at dust.

.. O...kay... and he hates crosses because of Jesus being crucified (long held guilt?). So how do we explain his aversion to Garlic? They had Italian at the last supper? Also I do NOT like the idea that Jesus would condemn anyone to be a vampire.

Jesus forgave Judas. And why would he come to save humanity only to unleash the world's worst vampire on the Earth. That's a Messiah who gave us Count Dracula?! Some Messiah unleashing a monster on us.

Thanks a lot! Gerard Butler is physically attractive as this so-called Dracula but this is NOT a Dracula story and the attempt to tie Dracula to the Jesus story is pathetic at best. I like the idea of Van Helsing capturing Dracula because he can't actually kill him.

And I like the twist of Van Helsing having a daughter and becoming addicted to infusions of Dracula's blood to keep himself alive. That's interesting but that's the only interesting thing about this movie other than Gerard Butler's haircut.