England 1899: Arthur Holmwood (Dan Stevens), it could go so well. He is the son of a wealthy man with a large estate in Whitby and his beloved Lucy Westenra (Sophia Myles) has accepted his marriage proposal - much to the displeasure of his best friend John Seward (Tom Burke), who is also in love with the beautiful Lucy. Then Arthur declare, after the death of his father, however, syphilis that he carries in itself and it will inevitably die. In order not to infect Lucy, he makes contact with a mysterious sect. Here is promised that they could wash away the blood - if he would finance the relocation of their secret leader of Transylvania to England. Arthur agrees, and soon makes the young is Jonathan Harker (Rafe Spall), whose fiancée Mina (Stephanie Leonidas) is the best friend of Lucy real estate brokers, the acquaintance with Count Dracula (Marc Warren).
reads familiar? DRACULA (2006) would not be the first film version of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel, I present here. And as we see, we have also to do this again with no 100% faithful to the original implementation, but with an adaptation that allows many liberties with the original and choose an approach - is as far as I know - still found in no other film use. portray Arthur Holmwood as the villain in desperation is in fact a brilliant idea to give each substance actually long since been sucked new life. That it is a television DRACULA movie is (after all, written for the BBC), the inclined viewers can trim the beginning. Is this reluctance justified? Or are we dealing with a pearl of the Dracula movies?
"This is not Jim Beam ..." It's hard to believe it, but it does strip the good that operate here, an actor, you probably know, for example in Germany and most (in England to see most of them often on TV). An exception is, of course, Sophia Myles, who genre fans from the first UNDERWORLD and as Madame de Pompadour in Doctor Who should be known. Thanks to this fresh faces gives the film a pleasant "neutrality," the star vehicles such as Francis Ford Coppollas film lacked. Moreover, the very "newbies" to go with great enthusiasm and great talent to the cause. Surprisingly good were the digital effects. In particular, saw the landscape images for a TV film of surprisingly clean and atmospherically. As is shown that, the trickster at BBC and Granada (production company) now some on the box.
As already mentioned, the approach that the film lifts off much of their submission, but the fact of separate legs is interesting, and quite timely, since nowadays so happy with conspiracy in the shadows and heroes out of selfishness and despair for evil to run, works. Somehow it manages Writer Tom Helps clichés for the most part to be negotiate. In addition, he manages to tell the story in 90 minutes, while take up a large part of the original. This borders on a miracle and makes it possible that there are no lengths.
UNDERWORLD, MOONLIGHT, DRACULA ... Sophia seems the good of the vampires do not get away ... DRACULA is nevertheless not without its quirks. Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman ... Films of this material stand or fall with the main character. And unfortunately you get here the curve is not quite right. Although Marc Warren is a good actor (just to recognize the fact that he brings over his pseudo-Romanian accent, without appearing ridiculous), but unfortunately, no Lord of the vampires. He seems too young and Too thin. He never succeeds, the charm or the presence to get his famous predecessor. Only drawback is the ending, where one observes clear that this whole fix must come to a conclusion. The overall effect, despite the terrible events to conciliatory. And why at the very end still had to make a final clean-shocker remains a mystery, as it now really the noble (and really erotic - despite the absence of provocative scenes) can appear suddenly and effektheischend cheap looking movie.
summary, I can say that when I purchase the DVD (1 € it cost me on Ebay - and still sealed) had expected a real pickle, only concerning the would fulfill the purpose of completing my collection. I got a really good "Dracula" film was, who knows entertaining and just because a couple of small mistakes can not be considered as an absolute A-Ware. Nevertheless, DRACULA is a secret, not only the vampire fans should not miss.
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