Review of Dracula Untold (2014) by Theapplegnome — 11 Aug 2015

Dracula Untold; the Dracula origin story of the legendary icon finally is here, and it's a hit.

Another origin story of another well known icon, you have been here, but do you know this story? I can safely say that you have not. It's one of the best Dracula-related movies out there, and it totally exceeded my expectations. I never hated the "Van Helsing movie", but this one is much better! Just the acting from Luke Evans is phenomenal. I never liked him that much in The Hobbit, but I totally loved him in this vampire-flick! The GoT-legend Charles Dance ^^ is just as awesome and thrilling to watch. Still, the first thing I did notice is the first 30 minutes and its background "subplots". It feels forced, "like the writers had an incredible plot, but had no idea how it should begin". But the greatest aspects are the stunning action-sequences, even though they all lack some sort of realism and feeling to them. The small but important thing is that the trailers did spoil some of the action, because there aren't that many of them, really. But the solid and somewhat different, modern and unique plot made the movie much better than what I expected to see. But the movie felt a bit too short and a better background on the events should have been much better! The main characters could also have had a better chemistry between them, could have tightened the bond and the movie experience even more!

But Dracula Untold truly is an untold story that's surprisingly great. It felt a bit too short indeed it did, but I had a great time watching, it and I was actually a bit sad when it ended, because it's such a good movie! It got it's bad parts yes, and there're actually very few main characters, but I really recommend it!

+ Stunning action, great & unique story and overall highly entertaining to the eye.

- Vague chemistry to the characters, lack of a greater background & subplots.

7.