Dracula:2000

I really didn't understand why someone would make a new Dracula. I mean how much more is their to explore. But, the trailer appeared to be failry interesting; and besides Wes Craven's name is attached...how bad can it really be...

Dracula 2000's update begins with team of techno-savvy thieves who break into a high-security vault, hoping to steal priceless artworks. To their utter disbelief, the vault instead hides a well-protected crypt, a crypt that has not been opened in 100 years, a crypt that will unleash Dracula's ancient terror upon the modem world - and all who come into contact with him. Dracula, freed at last from a century in confinement, finds himself in a 21st century of chaos and temptation, of Virgin record stores and subterranean nightclubs, where he fits right in. His first destination is the United States - the ultimate location for his charismatic seductions of beautiful young women and his unceasing quest for power - but there is another reason he has come here. Somewhere in New Orleans is a young woman Dracula must find ... the only person on earth with whom he truly shares his dark legacy.

Um..the first 30 minutes of this movie was pure garbage. If fact, I was about to get up and leave. I was sitting there viewing one of the corniest tounge and cheek film, that was trying everything to come across as a real horror movie. They failed. After the first 1/3 of this "movie", things became a little smarter. Not enough to make everything better, but it was a start. Slowly, the film began to tell a story someone gave a damn about and some suspense was beginning to be developed. The thing that gave this movie enough to get over its piss poorness was the ending which linked the original Dracula to being Judas the traitor to Jesus Christ. That, my friend, is some deep ish and seriously causes one to take a moment back and think. And all the reasons to say that this is the case is detailed in the film. Probably not a good thing to all you hardcore Biblical junkies, but it is still soemthing that get the old wheels in the head turning.

Even with that interesting ending, I still wouldn't actually recommend this movie to anyone. Its not something worth spending money on. If you can see it for free, or on bootlegg than give it a look. Otherwise there are plenty more well written and acted Dracula films that will wet your whistle.

Rating: 1/2 out of four.

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