retains the Count’s mysterious powers – his ability to change form (wolves, bats), mesmerize victims, and summon fog and storms – as well as his weaknesses (silver, crosses), while seamlessly inventing a credible origin story for vampires using Biblical

| Dec 5, 2024

Butler is certainly charismatic as the undead bloodsucker, despite only having two expressions: slight bafflement, and, when an attractive neck comes into view, that of a small boy who's just heard an ice-cream van tinkling round the corner.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 23, 2020

Has its moments, comic and heart-in-the-mouth, especially when Butler's Dracula is allowed to strut his stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2019

A milquetoast Matrix-y vampire movie that cobbles together a bunch of Scream franchise castoffs or wannabes, salvaged (if at all) by some suave charisma by Gerard Butler, playing Dracula in his major Hollywood debut.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2019

A fast-paced and captivating exercise in gory action-horror, la Wesley Snipes's 1998 bloodsucker epic, Blade.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

It's still a fun bit of "Matrix" lite horror fare...

| Oct 28, 2012

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Too scary, too gory, too gross.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Without a single scare to its credit nor a particularly inspired storyline, this film fails to justify its existence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2010

While the result certainly doesn't suck, it does lack any real bite.

| Oct 20, 2009

Mary, a descendant of the prototypical vampire slayer, works at a Virgin megastore in New Orleans, and the gratuitous use of the city during Mardi Gras is the least of this movie's unoriginal sins.

| Oct 20, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

The use of Craven's name in the title is a cheesy marketing ploy and the secret to the fanged suitor's aversion to all things Christian is an even cheesier hoot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

We're talking 5,940 seconds better spent doing anything else under the sun, including but not limited to pulling out one's toenails one by one.

| Original Score: F | Jul 30, 2007

One half-expects a sexually subversive, blood-soaked gay carnival. Instead, Simon makes the effete Dracula (Butler) suck on some abuse.

| Jan 26, 2006

[It] will be consigned to the bin with all the other Dracula rejects.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2005

There's enough holes in the plot to drive a 40-foot hearse through.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2003

There are precious few good performances in this movie, and it would be really great if the title character were one of them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The filmmakers were stuck with a script containing good ideas poorly executed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

...a distressingly lackluster endeavor that squanders an appealing setup and talented roster of performers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2002