Review of Dracula Untold (2014) by Grant S — 20 Sep 2015
Despite pretensions to the opposite, this movie doesn't really add anything new to the Dracula lexicon.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most adapted-to-screen books ever written. The Dracula movies seem to come at almost yearly intervals! So, when another one, this one, came out I thought "ho hum, here we go again". However, if the marketing was anything to go by, this promised to be closer to the true story of Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula).
It started off reasonably well, following Vlad while he leads his Kingdom during the rule of the Turks. However, it degenerates pretty quickly into a common-or-garden action movie, just with a vampire as the hero.
If anything it subtracts from the Dracula legacy, as it turns a vampire drama into a vampire action movie, and a pretty standard, predictable one at that.
Gets pretty conventional and dull, very quickly.
Can Hollywood stop making Dracula movies now, please...? It's been done to death and there really is no room for originality left in the story.
This review of Dracula Untold (2014) was written by Grant S on 20 Sep 2015.
Dracula Untold has generally received mixed reviews.
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