Resurrection again! Writer-director Patrick Lussier, under the imprimatur of Wes Craven, has some genuine ideas to fiddle with. Dracula, pronounced "Dra-COOL-ya" by one who should know, does not register on camera any more than in a mirror. And his invisibility in mirrors, speaking of which, is used against him in a clever trap (a gimmick thrown away in flashback). And the really Big Idea -- the revelation of his true identity and explanation of his allergy to the cross and to silver -- is a whopper indeed. Dracula himself, alas, is a bitter disappointment: a big-haired TV soap-opera-type hunk, Gerard Butler. And the movie, sleek but slow, buckles under such modern excesses as computers, hard rock, wisecracks, and one of those endless endings. With Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Jennifer Esposito, and Omar Epps. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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