Dracula III: Legacy
I finally saw Dracula III: Legacy last night. I've been putting this one off for a long time since I didn't care for the last two in the series, Dracula 2000 and Dracula II: Ascension.
I really wish Wes Craven would stop "presenting" movies that he really didn't have anything to do with making.
This movie wasn't any better than the last two. Jason Scott Lee and Jason London from Dracula II: Ascension are back as Father Uffizi and Luke respectively. Diane Neal also returns as Elizabeth Blaine as if anyone cared. Poor Rutger Hauer is Dracula this time around. He hams it up in about the last ten or fifteen minutes of the picture. Rutgar, stop playing vampires. It was cute back in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but after 'Salem's Lot and now this it's just getting sad. And what the hell happened to Roy Scheider's career? Why was he in Drac II and III?
Anyway, there's maybe one truly cool moment in the movie- a room full of female vampires feeding on each other. The rest of the movie is just a big pile of who-cares. In Dracula 2000 they tried to tell us that Dracula was really Judas Iscariot (the single stupidest idea I've ever seen in a vampire movie EVER!) Now they tell us that he's something older than that and that he's corrupted every religion in history going back to ancient Egypt. Then they never build on that which is probably for the best, 'cause it's stupid.
Perhaps it's time to just leave Dracula alone. Go read the book and leave it at that. Stoker killed him at the end and I think he meant for the Count to stay dead.
I give Dracula III: Legacy two out of five bloody crosses.
I really wish Wes Craven would stop "presenting" movies that he really didn't have anything to do with making.
This movie wasn't any better than the last two. Jason Scott Lee and Jason London from Dracula II: Ascension are back as Father Uffizi and Luke respectively. Diane Neal also returns as Elizabeth Blaine as if anyone cared. Poor Rutger Hauer is Dracula this time around. He hams it up in about the last ten or fifteen minutes of the picture. Rutgar, stop playing vampires. It was cute back in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but after 'Salem's Lot and now this it's just getting sad. And what the hell happened to Roy Scheider's career? Why was he in Drac II and III?
Anyway, there's maybe one truly cool moment in the movie- a room full of female vampires feeding on each other. The rest of the movie is just a big pile of who-cares. In Dracula 2000 they tried to tell us that Dracula was really Judas Iscariot (the single stupidest idea I've ever seen in a vampire movie EVER!) Now they tell us that he's something older than that and that he's corrupted every religion in history going back to ancient Egypt. Then they never build on that which is probably for the best, 'cause it's stupid.
Perhaps it's time to just leave Dracula alone. Go read the book and leave it at that. Stoker killed him at the end and I think he meant for the Count to stay dead.
I give Dracula III: Legacy two out of five bloody crosses.
posted by Dominic at 11:06 PM
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