Genre: Action Drama Fantasy
Cert: 15 cert
Director: Gary Shore
Screen writer: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Bram Stoker
Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon , Dominic Cooper , Art Parkinson ,Charles Dance , Diarmaid Murtagh , Paul Kaye , William Houston , Noah Huntley , Ronan Vibert , Zach McGowan , Ferdinand Kingsley , Joseph Long , Thor Kristjansson , Jakub Gierszal, Joe Benjamin , Paul Bullion, Mish Boyko, Dilan Gwyn, Arkie Reece, Phil Zimmerman, Dominic Borrelli, Tom Benedict Knight.
Running time: 92 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Man is seen in the bath naked nothing is seen, passionate kissing is seen no sex scene's
Violence & Gore: The battle scene is pretty blood thirsty, the are scene of soldiers implied on pikes, man drinking blood.
Profanity: Son of a devil, monster few other word strong words.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: wine is seen being drunk in the kings court.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: 15 cert for intense sequences of warfare, vampire attacks, disturbing images and some sensuality, some scene maybe frightening to some viewers.
Story: At the turn of the century, the young lord Vlad Tepes and his young family live a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom. However, when a ruling rival king with a growing army demands from Vlad the first born male of every family to join his army; Vlad's wife makes a terrible mistake which will change history forever. Vlad's wife, Mirenea travels to visit bloodthirsty witches in the nearby mountains. While there she sells her soul to stop the invading army- the price however is that Vlad will become a blood-thirsty monster that will hunt the ages.
Likes : First i will say is this is not a horror story as such, but there was a few moment that really do make you jump, this really impressed me by keeping true to the history of Vlad the impaler with the Turks taking young boys from family at a young age & raining them to be warriors which one such boy was vlad.
The real history was that vlad after returning home the Turk started again which start a war with vlad. this is where the legend of vlad the impaler story became a vampire as people so though it was when he conquered his enemy & put their body's on pikes & drunk there blood as a right of strength, this is what put the fear in to the enemy think that vlad was some monster.
What clever about this film is it show details of this history with the fantasy of the vampire, but the story is much more than just a vampire story there is a much bigger story going on behind it that is not shown in the trailers which made this film alot better than people have made it out to be.
Yes there is some sort of love story there but as this film process you can see where this is heading, i will say this is the best Dracula film ive seen in a while.
The other films in the past have portrayed Dracula as just a monster, a killing machine with the thirst for blood, but with this film they portray him as a monster but also a character with love & strength to resist the darkness & corruption that come from being vampire.
This darkness is brilliant portray by Luke Evans playing Vlad Tepes, his performance in this film is outstanding in ever way not only showing a father figure & a family man but also the strength & resolve to protect his people no matter the cost which lends him to this path of darkness to the first vampire played brilliantly by Charles Dance, who's presence in this film is truly frightening & chilling to say the least, the on screen presence as him playing this master vampire is truly outstanding & very believable.
Sarah Gadon was absolutely brilliant playing the mother & wife of Vlad with alot of passion in her heart for the man she loves Sarah performance really show this perfect on screen, great performance. Art Parkinson (game of thrones star) who plays the son done a brilliant job portraying the son of vlad with a great performance, Dominic Cooper done a brilliant job as the general Mehmed great final battle scene that well choreograph.
Not once did this film give up the dark concept & a war torn country but also the dark concept of the vampire which makes this one of the most epic vampire film that not only gives you a true Dracula love story but also portrays Dracula better. Those that have play the game castle Castlevania will see this film also has that slight concept of the game as well .One thing this film dose have is there is a bigger story in the concept going on which if you miss the dialogue you will miss the concept of the ending that i mention is beyond the love story, the vampire story as it become a game of chest which i though was very clever in the story.
The fight scene & battle scene are outstandingly choreograph with authentic battle armour from the time period & some of the best special effects with the bats is just spectacular, special with the way they had the morphing of Luke characters from human to hundreds of bats to solid form these special effect much of took ages to do, the team have really pulled this effect off brilliantly.
This is a film i highly recommend watching at the cinema, epic tale of honour, love & struggle.
Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film
Overall : Brilliant FX, Outstanding performances from all cast, all round epic adventure of the best told Dracula film to date
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for story concept/ Real history mixed with fantasy.
Screen writer: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Bram Stoker
Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon , Dominic Cooper , Art Parkinson ,Charles Dance , Diarmaid Murtagh , Paul Kaye , William Houston , Noah Huntley , Ronan Vibert , Zach McGowan , Ferdinand Kingsley , Joseph Long , Thor Kristjansson , Jakub Gierszal, Joe Benjamin , Paul Bullion, Mish Boyko, Dilan Gwyn, Arkie Reece, Phil Zimmerman, Dominic Borrelli, Tom Benedict Knight.
Running time: 92 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Man is seen in the bath naked nothing is seen, passionate kissing is seen no sex scene's
Violence & Gore: The battle scene is pretty blood thirsty, the are scene of soldiers implied on pikes, man drinking blood.
Profanity: Son of a devil, monster few other word strong words.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: wine is seen being drunk in the kings court.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: 15 cert for intense sequences of warfare, vampire attacks, disturbing images and some sensuality, some scene maybe frightening to some viewers.
Story: At the turn of the century, the young lord Vlad Tepes and his young family live a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom. However, when a ruling rival king with a growing army demands from Vlad the first born male of every family to join his army; Vlad's wife makes a terrible mistake which will change history forever. Vlad's wife, Mirenea travels to visit bloodthirsty witches in the nearby mountains. While there she sells her soul to stop the invading army- the price however is that Vlad will become a blood-thirsty monster that will hunt the ages.
Likes : First i will say is this is not a horror story as such, but there was a few moment that really do make you jump, this really impressed me by keeping true to the history of Vlad the impaler with the Turks taking young boys from family at a young age & raining them to be warriors which one such boy was vlad.
The real history was that vlad after returning home the Turk started again which start a war with vlad. this is where the legend of vlad the impaler story became a vampire as people so though it was when he conquered his enemy & put their body's on pikes & drunk there blood as a right of strength, this is what put the fear in to the enemy think that vlad was some monster.
What clever about this film is it show details of this history with the fantasy of the vampire, but the story is much more than just a vampire story there is a much bigger story going on behind it that is not shown in the trailers which made this film alot better than people have made it out to be.
Yes there is some sort of love story there but as this film process you can see where this is heading, i will say this is the best Dracula film ive seen in a while.
The other films in the past have portrayed Dracula as just a monster, a killing machine with the thirst for blood, but with this film they portray him as a monster but also a character with love & strength to resist the darkness & corruption that come from being vampire.
This darkness is brilliant portray by Luke Evans playing Vlad Tepes, his performance in this film is outstanding in ever way not only showing a father figure & a family man but also the strength & resolve to protect his people no matter the cost which lends him to this path of darkness to the first vampire played brilliantly by Charles Dance, who's presence in this film is truly frightening & chilling to say the least, the on screen presence as him playing this master vampire is truly outstanding & very believable.
Sarah Gadon was absolutely brilliant playing the mother & wife of Vlad with alot of passion in her heart for the man she loves Sarah performance really show this perfect on screen, great performance. Art Parkinson (game of thrones star) who plays the son done a brilliant job portraying the son of vlad with a great performance, Dominic Cooper done a brilliant job as the general Mehmed great final battle scene that well choreograph.
Not once did this film give up the dark concept & a war torn country but also the dark concept of the vampire which makes this one of the most epic vampire film that not only gives you a true Dracula love story but also portrays Dracula better. Those that have play the game castle Castlevania will see this film also has that slight concept of the game as well .One thing this film dose have is there is a bigger story in the concept going on which if you miss the dialogue you will miss the concept of the ending that i mention is beyond the love story, the vampire story as it become a game of chest which i though was very clever in the story.
The fight scene & battle scene are outstandingly choreograph with authentic battle armour from the time period & some of the best special effects with the bats is just spectacular, special with the way they had the morphing of Luke characters from human to hundreds of bats to solid form these special effect much of took ages to do, the team have really pulled this effect off brilliantly.
This is a film i highly recommend watching at the cinema, epic tale of honour, love & struggle.
Dislikes : Nothing wrong with this film
Overall : Brilliant FX, Outstanding performances from all cast, all round epic adventure of the best told Dracula film to date
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for story concept/ Real history mixed with fantasy.
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