– Customer review on 12/11/2009

You should know something is wrong when one of the selling points for the film, the triumphant climax of the blurb on the box, and above, is that in this version Dracula is played by an Irish actor, and according to the blurb this is significant because Stoker was Irish. (The fact that Stoker lived most of his life in London, and Bergin is done up to look like Billy Connolly and speaks with no trace of an Irish accent doesn’t help their case.)

This film is awful. Not awful in the Hammer sense of watchably awful. Just plain awful. The most dramatic scenes are in the deleted scenes section.
Moved to Budapest and translated into the twentieth century, the story dribbles along, trying to be some kind of fable about moral choices and moral strength but just tying itself into knots. The dialogue is awful, the characters mouth lines that would cause embarrassed giggling at a dinner party even if the guests weren't sober. The special effects are comic and the acting stilted and unconvincing. The central characters are unlikeable and the ending is just naff.
Save your money.