Wes Craven presents a bold and provocative interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale in Dracula 2000. In this re-envisioning, Dracula awakes from his tomb to seek out the daughter of Van Helsing after having been imprisoned by him for over a hundred years. The cast is pretty strong, and includes Jonny Lee Miller, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Esposito, and Christopher Plummer. The writing is also fairly good, and puts a fascinating new spin on the Dracula legend. However, the directing is weak and isn’t able to fully realize the vision of the script. Yet despite its problems, Dracula 2000 is an entertaining film with an intriguing story.

After seeing all the Disturbed albums in the Virgin shop I just knew there was going to be a Linkin Park song somewhere (One Step Closer plays during the credits). This movie is so 2000 haha. It's not too bad but it's not great either.

There are some surprisingly well known names in this movie, not least of all the massive Virgin music promo that it seems to be (although full points for symbolism). So late 90s it hurts in places, it lives up to the tagline of it being set fully in the time it was made. Uses a lot of the cliches of modern vampire fiction, I'm looking at you New Orleans. Pieces of this movie are fantastic and the climax is pretty decent but the overall impression is that this movie is terrible.

> "You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine." Gerard Butler's Dracula is dripping with aura in this. Shame that it's wasted on this movie. There is a twist in his origins that I thought was cool but the rest of the writing and action fell flat.

How bad can a Dracula movie be? Watch this