Review of Dracula Untold (2014) by Filmwatcher123 — 10 Oct 2014

This movie shows glimpses of the great Dracula that it could have been, creepy, intimidating and dark. Unfortunately this movie failed to capture this due to it trying to cater to a wider audience due to a bigger budget.

From the main character being a pretty boy instead of monstrous like Charles Dance's character and being a man who was evil but is now good who then turns evil just to go good again makes it uncertain where universal was trying to go with this.

There were glimpses of great horror such as Charles dance and a few scenes in the movie that showed the darkness that Vlad has been driven to once again, but overall the movies ending that writes off the whole film and seems to be there just to spawn a sequel and also some sloppy writing and uninteresting villains make the film pretty bland and left me hoping that universals future horror reboots will focus less on the action and more on the brilliant original characters.