A successful movie! The cast are so beautifully and properly chosen for their roles, the music appropriate, and the background, the costume, all managed to make the movie became a great hit.
Honestly, I was reluctant to watch any more Vampire movies prior to this one. But finish watching this, I thought this movie was a real work of art.
If Richard Roxburgh was brilliantly as Count Dracular, handsome, wicked, ruthless, charming, etc, depended on his mood, then Hugh Jackman was definitely not less in his role as Van Helsing, the famous and notorious vampire/monster hunter.
Balanced the evil and ugliness of the evil world, director Stephen Sommers skillfully added 3 beautiful (sexy, and exotic looking) brides of Count Dracular, as well as the marverlous and striking female vampire hunter Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale).
Not only that, the presence of the "priest/monk" comapion Carlos (David Wenham) and his incredible range of weapons which he invented with the purpose of destroying vampires, never failed to make the viewers smiled and thought of all the gadgets in James Bond movies.
A bit sad, when the beautiful and virtuous Anna Valerious was dead at the end of the movie, perhaps to follow her ancestors (all were vampire hunters), and her brother's soul (who was turned into a werewolf while fighting the wicked enemy) into eternity, passed through St Peter's Gate, which was not openned before due to the presence of Count Dracular (?).
The ending was a bit sad, but fit in very well with the theme of the movie, where the hero walked away, continued with his mission of bringing peace to the universe, and Count Dracular gone forever for goods.
A few points that puzzled me,
- why Dracular could be destroyed by a broken neck, and nothing else before that could?
- Anna Valerious while fighing, her gorgeous hair was never seemed to be out of shape! Incredible!
This movie also reminded me of "The Brother Grimms", but perhaps it had its own beauty and magnificent scenes (as well as all the hilarities peppered here and there throughout the movie).
(wrote this review for my friend, about a month ago!)
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