Late 19th century. Jonathan Harked (Keanu Reeves) to sell houses in London to a certain Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) goes far, to Transylvania. When the Count arrives, he shows little hospitality, and Jonathan has already decided that everything, the contract is signed, can go home, as Dracula offers him to stay with him for a month. Or rather insists on it. Jonathan naturally could not refuse the Count and ... here it all begins the most interesting.
Many people think that comparing movies is silly, that each of them is different in its own way. I personally do not hold that view. I can compare, for example, such two different genres as comedy and drama, as action and melodrama, the genre does not matter to me. So now I’ll compare the action movie and the mystical thriller. Van Helsing and Dracula. Let me tell you right away that everything has to be in moderation. That’s the problem with both films. If "Van Helsing" is too militant, then "Dracula" is quite the opposite - too mystical, too absorbed in the thriller. In the beginning, I confess, I was delighted. Hero Keanu Reeves goes to Transylvania, comes, such an environment of wild horror, especially in the house of Dracula, the Count himself is very charismatic (not that from “Van Helsing”), but in the course of the film, frankly, I got bored. The course of the film did not change at all, Coppola both pulled his line from the very beginning of the film and pulled it to the end. There's not even a hint of action. Another thing I didn’t like was that Dracula was too romantic. Too much time is devoted to the love theme in the film, while in "Van Helsing" Graf appears before us a very harsh vampire.
Now the actors. From the title of both films, it is clear that Van Helsing soloed in Van Helsing, and Dracula in Dracula. But if Hugh Jackman wasn’t fish and meat in Van Helsing, then all the actors played very well. Even the same Van Helsing performed by the famous actor Anthony Hopkins. After the triumphant role in the film “Silence of the Lambs” on this image of him somehow look not very interesting, then on Gary Oldman in the role of Dracula, which, by and large, became his first famous role in the movie, to look very nice, despite the fact that he is Dracula. Very well conveyed the image of his character on the screen, of course, in some places replayed, in my opinion, especially in the image of a young Dracula, but still, even though I watched very few films about this character, I can say that this is one of the best Dracula in cinema. I also want to mention Keanu Reeves. Although he appeared for a couple of minutes and showed nothing special, but his character is very important for this film. With his help, the true character of the Count is very clearly revealed, and his gray hair, which looks very ridiculous on his young face, fully shows who Dracula really is.
All right. I liked it personally, but it was annoying again. If we finally compare the two films, Van Helsing and Dracula, we can say that the shortcomings of one film are the advantages of another, and vice versa. If you take all the best of these two films and put together, you get a masterpiece, but for now only good.
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