Halloween night should, fittingly, have the lord of the vampires as your companion. At least on TV. I haven't read the original Bram Stoker novel, but allegedly this film was unfaithful to it. Maybe because literary works don't necessarily translate well to the cineplex? Anyway, Coppola crafts an engrossing 2 hour tale of Vlad the Impaler, Christian crusader who eschews the faith and renounces God when his wife Elisabetta commits suicide because of false news about his death. Fast forward four centuries later, uptight real estate lawyer Jonathan Harker (an always wooden Keanu Reeves) is summoned to Transylvania to finalize the Count's purchase of several London houses. Noticing that Jonathan's fiancee Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) is a dead ringer for his uh, dead wife, the Count goes after her in his own style. Gary Oldman, in one of his best roles, provides the meat of the movie as Dracula, while Anthony Hopkins plays catch-up as the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing.
"Obi-Wan Keanu, you are my only hope."
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