When Nicolas Cage's Dracula is on screen, Renfield works. The rest of the time, ironically, it sucks. justbrizigs' review:
director’s third film, a gag premise built on the latent push for therapy speak and self-love which permeates much of modern Western pop culture. But it’s a silly premise in an insecure and tonally incoherent film. It’s not willing to be goofy and gonzo enough for the inanity of its concept, not cool enough for the slick fight scenes it wants to impress you with, and not worthy enough of Cage as Dracula .
Renfield and Dracula have posted up in New Orleans following another one of Dracula’s feeding frenzies, which Renfield explains in an opening “Yep that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here” voiceover monologue, complete with freeze frame but surprisingly sans record scratch. These frenzies tend to climax with a big fight that renders Dracula alive but physically compromised, needing to flee to a safe place to regain full power and begin feeding again.
Things become complicated for Renfield on his journey towards self-actualization when a group of ruthless criminals led by Teddy Lobo seeks revenge on the traffic cop who’s been relentlessly pursuing him for the death of her police captain father. In the same bar that they’ve decided to hold officer Rebecca Quincy hostage, Renfield decides to consume some of the bugs that, in this universe, reallygive him superhuman abilities—abilities to wipe out all the bad guys almost single-handedly.
It perplexes one why a film would market itself as “Look, it’s Nic Cage as Dracula!” and make the film itself, well…whatever this is.isn’t unwatchable–the fight scenes are fluidly shot, edited and choreographed well enough; there’s some fun prosthetics and makeup, a gratuitous amount of blood and guts, and a deliciously hammy Cage playing a vampire only a couple histrionic rungs below his top-tierperformance.
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