"The Last Voyage of the Demeter" has an intriguing premise, good production values and good performances, but it lost me after about the first act and never really got me back.
The movie is about Dracula's ocean voyage from Romania to England, on a ship called the Demeter. I have read "Dracula" but I don't remember too much about that in the book. Wait a sec, I'll look it up...
So in the book it actually shows the captain's log, narrating the disappearance of each crewmember until only Dracula remains. I'd forgotten about that. The only bit I remember is the thing about him travelling with boxes filled with earth from his castle.
Anyway, the movie lost me after the set-up, more or less. When we finally see Dracula he doesn't look particularly impressive. He's played by an actor from Spain with extraordinary physicality called Javier Botet, who is six-foot-eight but only weighs fifty-four kilograms, due to his Marfan syndrome. His Dracula, though, just looks like a poor special effect, and could have been handled much better, especially with such a unique looking person playing him.
The movie is about Dracula's ocean voyage from Romania to England, on a ship called the Demeter. I have read "Dracula" but I don't remember too much about that in the book. Wait a sec, I'll look it up...
So in the book it actually shows the captain's log, narrating the disappearance of each crewmember until only Dracula remains. I'd forgotten about that. The only bit I remember is the thing about him travelling with boxes filled with earth from his castle.
Anyway, the movie lost me after the set-up, more or less. When we finally see Dracula he doesn't look particularly impressive. He's played by an actor from Spain with extraordinary physicality called Javier Botet, who is six-foot-eight but only weighs fifty-four kilograms, due to his Marfan syndrome. His Dracula, though, just looks like a poor special effect, and could have been handled much better, especially with such a unique looking person playing him.