Review of Interview with the Vampire (1994) by Justin S — 26 Jan 2012

Three quarters of the way through I realized I had seen this movie when I was a kid, which made it better based on nostalgia alone. Also, realizing the little girl is Kirsten Dunst is mind boggling, especially since Pitt, Cruise, and Banderas all appear to have never aged. Maybe they really are vampires?

My biggest complaint is that there are things that happen that are ridiculous even for a movie about interviewing a vampire (like a random helicopter fly by towards the end). Also, they never really make it clear how this guy ended up interviewing this other guy, it's just like "you saw me in the subway, so you decided you wanted to interview me, so we are at my house, by the way, I'm a vampire" but why is this guy interviewing random street people late at night that he is finding in the subway? And how does a interviewer end up at a random persons house and not think "why was this guy ok with me coming over for an interview at this time of night?" or at the very least "so he is ok with this, he must be a serial killer". Anyways, pretty decent if you can use your imagination a little to accept that this isn't completely absurd.