Chris Stuckmann reviews Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Diarmaid Murtagh, Dominic Cooper. First, some good news: "Dracula Untold," a sort of "Batman Begins" prequel, isn't as tacky as it sounds. There are glimmers of a brooding and icky horror Nor should you expect one in a review of "Dracula Untold," a bizarrely ambitious popcorn cash-in that's also half-baked in all the expected ways.
Of course, this is not the best actioneer Overall, "Dracula Untold" is not a Bram Stoker's fateful adaptation of the material. It's crowd pleasing action movie based on this material, which stays. Dracula Untold puts the horse before the carriage by attempting to build something larger before it's earned our interest in the individual parts If you strip away the promise of bigger things to come, the film that remains is just a prosaic action movie origin story with some nice costumes and set design. 'Dracula Untold': Movie review.
By JORDAN HOFFMAN. "Dracula Untold" is hazy in laying out the rules, but basically if Vlad resists the temptation to take a second sip. he'll have vampire power for three days and then return to normal. Dracula Untold ticks many of the boxes to fit into that same unfortunate category, rising in the wake of one of the worst horror character reinventions of all time: I, Frankenstein. Vlad is a prince who has had to fight a very violent war to save his family and country from invading Turks. For vampire movie and horror purists, Dracula: Untold probably isn't bloody enough. A sympathetic Dracula just might not be as scary. 'Dracula Untold' movie review. For a tantalizing half hour or so, it actually seemed like the underlying idea of "Dracula Untold" — an origin story drawing its DNA from superhero flicks, not monster movies — might go somewhere.
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Dracula Untold is the beginning of the new Universal Monsters shared movie-verse. We don't yet know how the rest of the monster movies will Dracula Untold is about the journey to that ending more so than the ending itself. You may find yourself wondering when Vlad will succumb and turn into.
Dracula Untold is fine Halloween entertainment, especially for those looking for something spooky but not necessarily terrifying. Compared to the average slasher movie, it keeps the gore level pretty low. Dracula Untold is exactly the monster you'd expect, trading horror for medieval action in the most acceptably mainstream way, which is not always a bad thing. After knowing it's title I thought it would be some sort of vampire horror movie, but after I watched the trailer it didn't seemed scary to me at all.