Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Winona RyderDirector: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry
Brand: N/A
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Anne Mason
Producer: Charles Mulvehill
Producer: Fred Fuchs
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: James V. Hart
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Bulgarian (Original Language); English (Original Language); Greek (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: 3.25 STARS: "I condemn you to living death, to eternal hunger for living blood!" -Count Dracula
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie entitled "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is strangely enough mistakenly titled given its clear deviations from Bram Stoker's novel. After I watched this movie, I was surprised by this fact. However, the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is certainly not a complete waste of time. In fact, this version of "Dracula" is quite entertaining, if you can labor through the fabricated romance parts. Sometimes, one comes across a movie that has both good things and some bad things about it. This fact makes the review somewhat difficult...such is the case with "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
To its credit, "Bram Stoker's Dracula" goes along with some of the main parts of the plot of the novel itself, but obviously not enough of them to hold true to its name. Johnathan Harker, an attorney, visits Dracula in Transylvania to close some real estate transactions. Dracula has purchased Carfax Abbey in England. Dracula forces Harker to remain in his castle longer than Harker wishes. Eventually, Dracula leaves for England with Harker left behind. However, when Dracula gets to England, things begin to deviate from the novel.
The most noticeable deviation of this movie from the novel is the lovelorn and romantic Dracula that we unfortunately get in this movie. Now, you see this with many of the Dracula movies, but these movies are largely inferior to the purer versions due to this fabrication. Call me unromantic, but this fabricated and forced love story was way too drawn out and took up way too much time in the movie itself. Consequently, as a horror movie, "Bram Stoker's Dracula" suffers as a whole. The love story seemed to drown the thrust of Dracula's story in a dull and baseless love story.
One cannot help but be annoyed by the fabricated and far-fetched love story that this movie strains and labors so hard to create. Unfortunately, it inevitably reduces the vileness of the beast that is Count Dracula, and takes away from the horror this movie attempts to create. After all, if a creature is capable of love, then he is not all bad, right? Well, as many of this know, this idea is certainly not in harmony with Bram Stoker's novel.
As another point of criticism, I thought it strange that this version of Dracula would dispense with many of the traditional rules of vampirism as well, e.g., vampire out in the daylight, steel stakes instead of wood, big bouie knives instead of stakes, etc., etc.
Nevertheless, with those significant criticism aside, I thought "Bram Stoker's Dracula" was a success on other levels. The acting was by and large very good in this movie, especially Anthony Hopkins in his role as Van Helsing. Anthony Hopkins was able to insert his personality quite well into the character of Van Helsing, although I found Frank Finlay's and Laurence Olivier's performances as Van Helsing to be more compelling than that of Hopkins. That being said, that is hardly a knock on Hopkins who did do a fantastic job as Van Helsing in this film, no doubt about it!
Surprisingly, a miscasted Keanu Reeves performed as well as he possibly could as Johnathan Harker, and Gary Oldman had some fine moments as Dracula at times, although his performance seemed wasted at times as it was so focused on the fabricated and forced love story that the creators of this movie unfortunately felt was so necessary. The rest of the cast was sufficient as well.
Perhaps what is best about "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (if you can even call it that) was the amazing visual effects and images that you get in this movie. The director and company did an outstanding job with the visual effects, including the scenery, the use of colors, and especially the setting in general. Indeed, all of these things went into creating a good and creepy atmosphere for this movie. The special effects were also pretty good, and there is plenty of blood to go around. To this movie's credit, there are quite a few haunting and harrowing images during certain scenes that the creators of this movie did so very well with, and this, along with the acting, is what this version of "Dracula" has to hang its hat on at the end of the day. The story, notwithstanding its flaws, was executed quite well, overall. However, I thought the ending was rather abrupt, but that is the way "Dracula" was intended I believe. After all, it is probably the best they could do within the confines of the story.
Overall, this is a pretty good "Dracula" movie that is highly entertaining, but the main criticism remains its deviations from the novel itself. Seriously, you should not call your movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and then have so many deviations from the novel itself. It does not make much sense. The fabricated, elongated, and at times, painfully annoying and boring love story really brings this movie down from the four stars it should have gotten. Certainly, with all its faults, this movie is not the best "Dracula" ever made. That honor would reside with the 1977 version of "Dracula" starring Louis Jourdan no less. That said, "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is certainly not the worst "Dracula" movie ever either.
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" is actually an entertaining "Dracula" movie that earns 3.25 STARS which represents a rich, colorful and dramatic adaptation of the novel that is also a good and sound horror movie about the infamous vampire, but unfortunately flawed due to some unfortunate and disappointing deviations in plot from the novel itself. That being said, the flaws of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" are certainly not enough to keep this movie from being an enjoyable movie watching experience for those that appreciate "Dracula" and vampire movies like myself.
Description of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
No Description Available.Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. In the high-definition transfer on this two-disc Collector's Edition, Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fiancée back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy.
The second disc in this set includes several good documentaries, including a featurette on the making of the film, involving past and present interviews with the principal artists involved. (Coppola and screenwriter James V. Hart speak persuasively about their commitment to bringing Stoker?s vision to the screen, rather than another revision.) Another documentary, "In-Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Dracula,'" is a fascinating overview of Coppola?s sometimes-frustrated effort to get the timeless special effects he was seeking. There are also quite a few deleted scenes among the special features, the best of which is an alternative cut to the film?s bloody ending. --Tom Keogh
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