Awful

This film really put vampire epics to shame. It seems to throw out all of old ideas surrounding vampires and dracula and rewrite them for its own use. But not in a good way. This is no Blade and its certainly no Underworld. Its like a badly written glorified tv movie. The writers frequently show signs of laziness which will annoy even the most basic of vampire fans - for example justifying Dracula walking around in the daytime because its a bit cloudy!??!!! Seriously though this just takes away all of the fear of the night, which has been paramount to the dracula franchise since its first outing, leaving us with a boring damp squid of a film. The only fun you will have with it is spotting popular tv actors such as Jennifer Esposito (Spin City), Omar Epps (ER), Danny Masterson (That 70s Show), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek Voyager) and Nathan Fillion (Firefly). Don't get me wrong they're all great actors, but a big film needs a big lead and I'm afraid to say that the usually excellent Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller were simply not big enough to make this crap believable. Take my advice, leave this rubbish alone - you're better off with any of the Blade or Underworld series or if you haven't watched them Buffy series 1-7.