Luke Evans

Dominic Cooper

Sarah Gadon

Charles Dance

Art Parkinson

Diarmaid Murtagh

Ronan Vibert

William Houston

Ferdinand Kingsley

Zach McGowan

Paul Kaye

Thor Kristjansson

Arkie Reece

Noah Huntley

Joseph Long

Jakub Gierszał

Joe Benjamin

Paul Bullion

Mish Boyko

Dilan Gwyn

Phil Zimmerman

Dominic Borrelli

Tom Benedict Knight

Paul Casar

Stavros Demetraki

J.J. Murphy

Ruth Baxter

Rachel Kennedy

Louise Parker

Glen Barry

Shane McCaffrey

Gary Whelan

Guillaume Meliot

Jason Coalter

John Friel

Andrew Laverty

Cole Currin

Matthew Åkerfeldt

Eugene Furphy

Chris Cherry

Graham Hutton

Chris Keenan

Ross Moneypenny

Joe Kelly Jr.

Bobby Marno

Phil McKee

Darren McMullan

Andrew McQuade

Connor Schelling-Tisza

Paul Monahan

Norman Coates

Tyrone Kearns

Gordon Bell

Paul Kavanagh

Graham Cave

Arthur Halligey

Derek Mayne

Al Geddes

Gavin McCormick

Xander Duffy

Jeffrey O'Brien

Gretta Shore

Charlene Gleeson

Orlaith Shore

Penelope Simmons

Ann Louise Bresnaham

Ann O'Connor

Aodhan McGowan

Hunter Stratton Boland

Maria Laird

Frank Cannon

John Carr

Micheal Fay

Richard Hansen

Sarah-Louise Haveron

Joana Metrass

Felicity McKee

Niall Murphy

Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.

Jo Burn

Samantha Smith McGrady

Gary Shore

Matt Sazama

Burk Sharpless

Richard Pearson

Michael De Luca

John Hubbard

Bram Stoker

Ros Hubbard

François Audouy

John Schwartzman

Ramin Djawadi

Elaine Kusmishko

Paki Smith

Ana Lozano

Ann Scibelli

Heather Greenlees

David Doran

Jon Taylor

Ben Lambert

Joe Hopker

Beverley Binda

Luigi Marchione

Michael Turner

Ngila Dickson

Beverley Crockard

Simon Scott

Mally Chung

Tapio Salmi

Richard Philpott

Sasha Gibson

Jon Title

Fiona Campbell Westgate

Rachael Webb-Crozier

Jessica Derhammer

Glen Pratt

Jasin Boland

Lizzie Kelly

Ian Franklin

Carlton Kaller

Tim Stevenson

Sara Bennett

Dan O'Connell

Buster Reeves

Cosmo Campbell

Kirsty Vogel

Jordana Finkel

Bill R. Dean

Frank A. Montaño

Nicolas Hernandez

Scott M. Davids

Ravi Dube

Rohan Harris

Ivan Moran

Pete Cavaciuti

Rudy Lopez

Andrew Ackland-Snow

Matt Kasmir

Kathleen Weir

Aine Smith

Christopher Assells

Christian Manz

John T. Cucci

Peter Staubli

Peter Pedrero

B.L. Jurgens

Paul Inglis

Rob Bliss

Greg Burridge

Daniel Phillips

Dion Banner

Chris Keitel

Leigh Stevens

Marzenna Fus-Mickiewicz

John Wildermuth

Sandra O'Brien

Thandiwe Philips

Steve Cummings

Karen Baker Landers

Robin Reyer

Mariangela Suma

Umar Hussain

David Feinsilber

Sam Gordon

Daniel Ulrich

Emily Ireland

Paul McDonnell

Kathryn Prince

Catherine McNally

Jim Crowther

Steve Pochetty

Hannah Lewis

Christopher Kaller

Wendy Brown

Paul Edwards

Matthew Lloyd

Harry Wiggins

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Dracula Untold

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Andres Gomez

FX, Evans and Dance's performances are the only things to save in this movie.

If you think Dracula becoming a hero and a martyr is a good idea, you will like it. Otherwise, like in my case, you will think that it was the worst idea in quite some time.

So, Dracula is not the most evil creature in the world any more ... :(

Per Gunnar Jonsson

That the so called “critics” at Rotten Tomatoes screws this movie over is not really a surprise. Said “critics” are usually out of sync with both my opinions and the opinions of most of the viewers which can be seen again from the fact that these people give this movie a 23% rating whereas the actual viewers give it a 60% rating. At lot of “purists” also seem to take a disliking to this movie. Well, the movie is named Dracula Untold so it should be no surprise that the story would be a new one.

Personally I found this movie quite enjoyable. Yes it is not the original Dracula story but it is not straying too far from the basic origins and it is really a quite decent story unlike some of the disastrous Hollywood rewrites. The original story claims that Dracula became a vampire during his battles with the Turks and this movie picks up on that and tells the story of how that happened. Unlike most (all?) Dracula movies, Dracula is not really the bad guy but rather the inverse and the movie tells a story about sacrifices and Dracula’s quest to keep some of his humanity, moral and sanity.

It would not be a Dracula movie without some blood flowing and this movie delivers without overdoing it. Actually the actual bloodsucking stuff is quite played down until the end of the movie. There are a fair amount of fights against the Turks (who are the real bad guys in this movie) though and blood as well as various body parts no longer attached to their proper places does float around quite a bit. The special effects are not forgotten and I quite liked the bat swarms that Dracula commanded during the final fights against the Turks.

I found Luke Evans performance as the prince and unwilling Dracula to be quite good. The rest of the characters were also well played. I am sure that none of them will be nominated for Oscars due to their part in this movie but I have nothing negative to say about their performance.

On the whole I found this movie quite enjoyable and I definitely disagree with all the people blasting it. I did also quite like the last couple of scenes in modern time at the end which teased of a follow up movie. I would definitely like to see that happen.

Dracula Untold( 2014)

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A review by Andres Gomez

Written by Andres Gomez on Wed Nov 05 2014

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