... And, oh my word, what a stinking barrel of piss it actually is. It's certainly entertaining, I'll give it that. Keanu's Sissyphean attempts at both acting and an English accent are great drinking game fodder. Anthony Hopkins' seeming insistence on delivering every line drunk, Sadie Frost's courageous battle with talentlessness and the director himself evidently losing his mind during the editing process had me stifling chuckles at depressingly regular intervals.
The film has Cary Elwes in it for fuck's sake!
What the hell came over Coppola? It looks as if seven different cintematographers all worked on the print with the film stock seemingly changing from scene to scene. It's like a student film-maker was handed a multi-million dollar budget and told, "Go and do what you want". Everything is ramped up to 11. The hysterical line deliveries, the bafflingly poor special effects, Gary Oldman's "Transylvanian" accent, the fact that the film can't decide whether Vlad The Impaler was a tragic hero or a tyrant, Keanu's reaction to the "baby eating" scene.
The thing's a camp classic. Surely there's a space reserved for it on the "Trash" section of specialist DVD rental shops?
The film has Cary Elwes in it for fuck's sake!
What the hell came over Coppola? It looks as if seven different cintematographers all worked on the print with the film stock seemingly changing from scene to scene. It's like a student film-maker was handed a multi-million dollar budget and told, "Go and do what you want". Everything is ramped up to 11. The hysterical line deliveries, the bafflingly poor special effects, Gary Oldman's "Transylvanian" accent, the fact that the film can't decide whether Vlad The Impaler was a tragic hero or a tyrant, Keanu's reaction to the "baby eating" scene.
The thing's a camp classic. Surely there's a space reserved for it on the "Trash" section of specialist DVD rental shops?
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