Let me sum it up this way: the person who scored the music for the movie is Danny Elfman.

The man who wrote the whimsical music for The Simpsons, Beetlejuice and Batman (’89) also wrote the music for this telling of Dracula. Now, he’s a very talented composer, but…Dracula?? That gives you a good idea of the tone of this film.

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I love “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola back in the ’90s. And we just had “Nosferatu” a couple of years ago. Moody. Creepy. So if you’re going to do the Dracula tale again, I guess you might go a different direction.

Director Luc Besson has made some really interesting movies (The Fifth Element and Valerian come to mind) with some really out-there characters. And he brings a lot of that inventiveness to this movie – the sets and costuming are top notch. But the tone is off.

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It starts off creepy, like you’d expect, but as we go on, there are some elements that are just silly. The castle has gargoyles that jump around like little gremlins. And Caleb Landry Jones who plays Dracula is…well, he’s just a guy. He’s kind of an odd-looking man that doesn’t have the screen presence to pull off this massive character.

I don’t know. It had some interesting aspects, but some that come out of left field. Guess we can’t expect much less from Luc Besson. But when you watch a Dracula movie, you want a Dracula movie, right?

Grade: B-

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Plot
When a 15th-century prince’s wife is brutally murdered, he renounces God and damns heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, he is reborn as Dracula–an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.