Dracula Untold movie review 

Still a better vampire movie than Twilight.

Does anybody really loved it and wish there was a sequel ?

Dude , that ending was awesome..."let the games begins"

As a big Dracula fan, I can easily say that Dracula Untold is one of my favorite movies. The battle scenes are epic, the movie is fairly historically accurate, and Luke Evans plays Vlad the Impaler well. Dracula is just a badass in this movie. I love Dracula Untold, and think that it's a very underrated masterpiece.

I freaking LOVED this movie. Just saw it tonight.

It's funny how people are bashing this movie for "Historical Inaccuracy". Yeah this is a story about vampires and shit, you know....real life! That's like me bashing Godzilla because giant monsters don't exist, or bashing Captain America because there was no such thing as a "Hydra" group.

At least there was no sparkles, right? Off the top of my head, I really liked Blade, the first one. The other two were alright, but the first one was great imo.

I saw this movie and i liked it, but the funny part was when it was over and a guy stood up and shouted "Yeah Fuck you Twilight!!" Wich was the same thing i was thinking

I loved this movie. We shouldn't judge it by its source material or historical accuracy, we should judge it by its cinematography. Is it predictable? Hell yeah, but who cares as long as it's well developed, and it sure was. It had a good performance from Luke Evans and Charles Dance (aka Tywin from Game of Thrones) was wonderfull and scary. What no one seems to comment about is the visual aspect of the film, which I thought it was great. The CGI was very good for a movie of this type, and the lights, props, sets were beautiful. The battle scenes were badass, and the shaky cam actually worked well on them, they were really well crafted and I saw some original stuff there going on like battle happening in the reflex of the sword. Also, the prologue had some epic stuff going on that reminded me of 300, very artistic and cool. In the end, I found it a very solid and entertaining movie (apart from some cheesy scenes) and I would watch it again.

Can we talk about how the blind-folded army made no fucking sense at all? "You can't fear what you can't see." Good line. Good fucking line. Movie was entertaining though.

My favorite movies with Vampires in them: 1.Van Helsing(favorite movie of mine) 2. Underworld:Evolution 3. Dracula Untold (This is my opinion so don't hate)

Movie’s underrated I’d love to see a sequel

My favourite is Twili.... hahahaha. I couldn't even finish that sentence with a straight face.

Damn i still hope this gets a sequel or something cause the Universal is trying to reboot monster franchises so that would be great Imo

"Knowing what we know about Dracula, it takes some of the tension out of the movie." Well, you can say the exact same thing about a number of films that we know the details of the story it is based on. People enjoyed Titanic despite the fact we know the ship sinks for example. Personally, I liked the movie and would have liked to see a sequel. It's better than the Mummy reboot for sure.

Lost Boys, Underworld, Queen of the Damned, Blade trilogy and Interview with the Vampire

I think it was the best Dracula Movie since Bram Stokers and i would love to see a second part

The real story (There were MANY more such flaws in the movie.., but this is all from the top of my head) 1. Vlad as a Royal hostage was treated as a prince in the Ottoman house hold .. not beaten, nor were the Jannisary soldiers. You don't make loyal soldiers by beating them 2. Vlad and Mehmet were NEVER friends, Mehmet was really good friends with Vlads younger brother RADU *which wasn't even mentionned a single time in this movie* 3. ONLY REASON VLAD WAS PRINCE OF WALLACHIA, was because the Turks gave his father the throne, and when his father was killed (by king Hunyadi and the rebellious Boyars) and his brother was blinded and buried alive the Turks took back Wallachia and gave it to Vlad 4. In reality Vlad hated Mehmet who later became Sultan because Mehmet was friends with Radu and not with him, Vlad was a psycho that enjoyed torturing animals and treated everyone like shit 5. When the Ottomans came to collect tax *THEY NEVER ASKED FOR VLADS SON* or a 1000 young boys, the entire point of putting Vlad on the throne was for him to supply men and join the Ottoman army when requested/needed and pay tax. His father had also fought along side the Ottoman army. In return they got a massive amount of autonomy and had complete self rule. (Kinda like a feudal knight) 6. Instead of paying his tax Vlad had the hats of the tax collectors nailed to their head and then tortured them to death. He claimed they were disrespectful and wouldn't take of their hat in reality he just did not want to pay tax. He sent their corpses to Istanbul as a underhanded declaration of war 7. He then *SLAUGHTERED* innocent *CHRISTIAN* Boyars, because he considered them traitors and literally nearly exterminated them. He also dressed as a Turkish Sipahi (knight) and then raided villages and infiltrated small Turkish army encampments (he spoke fluent Turkish) then had his men infiltrate the camps at knight and slaughter the small groups of soldiers. 8. Eventually the Sultan sent men, he had entire forests of impaled men, women and Children Mostly Boyars and others that he deemed traitors and some Turkish soldiers he had killed. The stench and horror of this instilled fear on the Ottoman soldiers and he would wage small guerrilla attacks constantly. When it got winter and the supply lines cut off the Ottomans had to retreat. 9. Vlad worked together with King Hunyadi .. same guy who had killed his father, blinded and burried his older brother alive. 9. Later his younger brother Radu who had become a Muslim, was sent by the Sultan inc a better equipped and trained army. Vlad was defeated by Radu. Vlad ran to his allies, who imprisoned him out of fear of the Ottomans. Vlads brother Radu became king of Wallachia and ruled for 13 year while Vlad rotted away in a dungeon. 10. Radu suddenly died and Vlad was let go again, he tried to start a rebellion in Wallachia, failed miserably, was caught by the Turks. His head was chopped off, put on a pike and sent to Istanbul Some other interesting facts. Vlad was trained by the best Turkish soldiers and fought like a Turk, used a Turkish Kilic/Scimitar not a straight blade 95% of Vlads victims were Christian boyars and other Christians Vlad would regularly attack and raid his Christian neighbors and massacre entire villages dressed as an Sipahi massacring and impaling tens of thousands. He partly did this to try and get them to fight the Ottomans but mostly because he enjoyed the murder. They found out and it was a large part of the reason why he was imprisoned as a traitor Mehmet *NEVER* fought Vlad or even went to Wallachia .. he actually conquered Istanbul/Constantinople and was know as Fatih Mehmet Han (Khan Mehmet the Conqueror) According to Russian and German historical accounts of the time, Vlads cruelty was unmatched. He would drink the blood of innocents, make mother watch their babies get ripped apart, rape, murder, torture on a daily basis. ETC. .. *not OTTOMAN/TURKISH sources but GERMAN AND RUSSIAN* ... He is considered a hero in some parts of eastern Europe only because of retarded post WW1/WW2 Romanticism and Nationalism

In my opinion, Bram Stoker's Dracula, is the best. It shows that Dracula (played fantastically by Gary Oldman) is this creature of darkness, though some part of him still is human. He's an animal but also misunderstood. He's the devil's creation but also worthy of redemption. Also, the film has a great supporting cast, musical score, and it delves into all the true-Victorian-Gothic style that we love! A review? Please? :)

Jeremy, a small correction. Just saw the film... About the "they are coming and my powers will be gone at sunrise" part. He wasn't waiting around. He wanted a moment with his wife and keeping his promise (I'll explain later). Also, he only just saw them. I had seen this review and was waiting for this part of the film to see how stupid it was, but, I think you misunderstood it or maybe mixed it up with the first attack they do on the first castle? Here is what went down (Spoilers for those who didn't see it?) The moment he sees them, and talks to his wife, he is still under the impression that he needs to hunt them down on by one (like the first night) and also had just made a promise to his son he will never leave him again. At this point he discovers his communication/control of the bats, then gathers them and pretty much wrecks havoc on them on the spot... Then gets blood drunk (so to speak, lol) and heads down himself as well (which kinda breaks his promise and leads to all the rest that happens). I'm thinking you read into that part wrong. What baffled me though was, again in that scene, the location. I mean, wtf? Didn't they go to a secluded mountain place were the other guys couldn't attack them in numbers or lay siege? Where they would fight in the woods and something something? Then we see this huge "roadway" leading up to their doorstep which I'm sorry but they might as well have marched elephants phalanxes in there, let alone siege weapons. Other than that I found the film being great. Actors were a little too camera conscious at points, some directing imaging was a little on the cheesy side, but way less than I expected. I expected it to have so many wrongs. But overall, it was actually an awesome film. Loved the story arc they created too, as predictable as it was which is normal really I mean come on, its Dracula, we know who Dracula is and pretty much got the whole story from the trailer. "Vlad meets a vampire and becomes Dracula to save his people..." Didn't expect any surprises really. And I assumed that his permanent turning was going to be in that way too (well, as I watched I actually thought that both wife and kid would die and from his rage he would willingly turn for vengeance sake... which is wrong but not too far off either I guess. The imagery was awesome, reminded me a lot of Legacy of Kain to be honest (especially the turning into bats power) however I was disappointed that it didn't have much blood in it. I mean, its a Dracula movie for crying out loud, we got more blood in 300 and even in TV shows (Oberyn getting his skull crushed, ouch). I'd personally say this film is worthy of a Buy it on Blue Ray rating. My favourite Dracula film to date from now on, with all its short comings. Mostly the imagery had me at hello. It sets a vampire mood the way I have been waiting to see it for aaaages yet never got it (Castlevania and Legacy of Kain look that is). Bram Stokers Dracula was too much story (which is VERY fitting as well, especially the love story part) but nothing that gave us any awe for Dracula, I mean he even gets killed in it. We have never gotten an action Dracula film with such visual quality till now, thank god, the wait is over. Wish they could make a sequel after all yet now with a more "sophisticated" and plot-twisting story... And an added love story too, that is what was mostly powerful about Bram Stokers Dracula. It's all that was missing from this film but thats ok since it did feel like it focused on the awesome part of a Dracula story, that being, him becoming Dracula. When you have that plot to deal with, there really isn't too many ways you can go about it other than the way they did it (there are some minor fixes to be had, but nothing special). One can only hope that the last "games" phrase of the film lives to such expectations for a sequel to add a lot more depth into it;) p.s, I actually found a lot of emotion for the character they put together, more than I thought I would, and the added vengeance thing made that emotion and his damnation more vivid too, they portrayed his sacrifice greatly I think and it really came across really well for an action flick.

The original Fright Night has to be the greatest vampire movie. Also I'd like to mention that one dream sequence in An American Werewolf in London where David is a vampire for like two seconds.

Best vampire flicks: Queen of the damned Interview with a vampire Let me in Bram stokers Dracula Worst vampire flick by far is twilight.

im sorry, but am i the only one who likes ven helsing with hugh jackman

Since they just announced that this is no longer canon to the Universal Monsters reboot I wanna say that although the movie had also of issues I liked Luke Evans and what he could do as Dracula like controlling or turning into bats, that look he gets when he sucks the blood out of his wife and enemy looked like a badass vampire. Sucks that can't be used anymore, cool design but wrong place in the wrong time.

I loved this movie, was it the most amazing movie to come out lately, definitely not, but a solid film over all. It accomplished something most films haven't gone into, the orgins of dracula, and while it fabricated many aspects and strayed from the historical lore dracula fans know. I still enjoyed it. Things I wish they would of gone into more though was 1. Dracula's opposition to religion he was actually a devout person as seen early in the movie by him making a pact to god to maintain peace and live a different life. All of a sudden he's in opposition because he is a vampire and forsakes god (stand up! prayers do not win wars!). What would of been interesting is to see him this devout person who falls because of his son being taken. You can tell there is a bit of that but they don't go into it enough that makes his reluctance of faith kind of left field. 2. I won't spoil the ending, but I'm not entirely pleased. You would think Dracula asserting his dominance would be enough to be like "holy shit... we should listen to this guy" instead they (if you've seen the movie you know who they are) try to rebel, and I felt they honestly could of gone a few other routes like the Sultan "killing him" but he comes back or various other routes other then the one they went with "Sun Ex Machina". THIS PART IS ABOUT THE ENDING AND I TRY TO STEER FROM *SPOILERS* BUT THERE ARE SOME SO DON'T READ PAST THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT *SPOILERS* 3. Cool Vampire in today!.... What the hell happened to the son other then him taking his place? Basically Dracula devotes his life to his son, but then is like "ya thats good, later I'm going to find your mom 100's of years in the future".... I felt that was just a weird route, on top of that the ending, Dracula wasn't brought back just to live and do songs and dances. I wanted to see more of his evil doings through out history or at least some darkness. This Dracula they created was way too good and I never felt a real light and dark struggle with him, what it really was was light and hunger struggle which was disappointing. 4. I would of really wanted to see his character be some crooked C.E.O taking over business or doing some morale grey area shit. Or even if he was like some arms dealer or something that was a bit more on the dark side. Just him wandering around the streets in black was a bit of a let down to me and honestly didn't make much sense to me in terms of Dracula's lore. They tried so hard to make this guy admirable and have the crowed sympathize with him, that I felt they also missed some of the conflicting sides of his deep character.

You want a badass Dracula story, go watch Hellsing Ultimate.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is fucking amazing. The only bad thing about that movie is Keanu Reeve's acting, but its still amazing

For me, there's only one vampire film: "Dracula" (1931) No one will ever top Bela Lugosi. As for "Dracula: Untold", even from just the trailer, it seems very gimmicky. It's basically taking a very fictionalized Vlad the Impaler and having him become Dracula. Why, Hollywood? Everyone knows Vlad inspired Stoker to write "Dracula", but why have him actually be Dracula in a film? You don't need to. He was frightening enough as he was. This is the guy who said, "My enemies are approaching. You know what my front yard needs? People writhing on sticks. That'll scare 'em off."

I liked it. Especially since I came out of it thinking that it was better than Twilight's vampires. It did a good job of telling his story of why he chose to become that creature, and what was at stake if he didn't change what he was.

Favourite Vampire films: 1) Van Helsing. 2) the Whole Underworld series. 3) Dracula untold

Probably the greatest thumbnail in the history of RU-vid lol

It's not a movie, but a series of animated videos called Hellsing: Ultimate. Alucard is hands down the best vampire ever in that series. Zero fucks given. Overpowered beyond comprehension. Sadistic. When I was dragged along to the Twilight movies by my friends, I watched those OVAs to wash the grotesque glittering fairy dust off me that was those movies "vampires".

Time to send Simon Belmont.

Fav Vamp Movie... Dracula: Dead and Loving it

Almost any "battle scene" I see in movies nowadays I can't help but think is always often inspired by Lord of the Rings

Interview with a vampire is my favorite

Favorite vampire movie... Interview with The Vampire. It was the first "adult movie" I saw as a kid and I just love it.

Of all the vampire movies out there, my absolute favorites are the Underworld series - the first and Rise of the Lycans in particular. Some of it's nostalgia, some of it's Kate Beckinsale, and the rest was the action and the lycans (as much as I like *real* vampires, werewolves are my fantastical wheelhouse!).

wow... hollywood made another dracula movie... and it will even have a sequel... it's not that i didn't liked it but... SO MUCH TEASING!!! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A CASTLEVANIA MOVIE ???

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one who thought of castlevania while watching this.

Favorite vampire movie: Twilight... Alright.. you all can lynch me now.

My favorite vampire movie of all time is Batman and Robin it sucked the life out of an entire franchise.

The only reason I might see this is because this is supposed to be the first movie in the new Universal Monsters "Cinematic Universe". Also, my favorite vampire movie is Blade.

Wish they’d do a sequel to this, I loved Luke Evans as Vlad!

Dracula Untold much better than Dracula 2000

My favorite is either Van Helsing or Underworld.

Does anyone else hate it when the take evil villains and try to turn them into tragic figures. I like tragic villains, but Dracula wasn't designed to be that, he's a monster who looks at humans as edible pawns, he's one of the few villains who should be evil for the sake of evil.

Better than I Frankenstein, Pompeii and that crappy Hercules movie

Luke Evans played his role really good

The movie was combining Vlad the Impaler's famous legend and the vampires we all know. I love how they brought back the traditional vampire traits, well most of them. In history he was in fact the original Dracula, but we wasn't a demon, he was a blood drinking maniac, who loves to impale his victims on spikes. Bram Stoker wrote the Dracula book and it's pretty cool to read, but the movie version of the book, Dracula looked too cheesy.

My all time favorite is Lost Boys, but I think the 2011 remake of Fright Night with Collin Ferrel is actually a really good and underrated vampire movie.

Hey Jeremy, I remember you reviewed the remake a few years ago, but I think you should give the Swedish original a review for this October. "Let the Right One In" was, in my opinion, the best vampire movie ever made. The remake really did not do it justice and in case you still haven't seen it, I'd really love to hear what you think about it.

The only good vampire movie imo is Blade.

The Blade Trilogy are probably my favorite vampire movies. If I had to pick one of them, then maybe Blade II, directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was pretty sweet seeing Blade team up with the Blood Pack (a team of highly-skilled, elite vampires trained to kill Blade) in order to take out a common enemy.

When I first saw the trailer I thought it was a live-action Castlevania film, until the title.

Van Helsing. Bring on the hate.

I'm still partial to the Francis Ford Coppola's 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. Very touching and as close to the original source material as you'll ever find in any film. And Gary Oldman rocks that white ass shaped wig and flowing red coat.

I loved this one it was so revolutionary to me. It's it's ability to fuse history with myth was incredible. I've never seen a vampire movie actually be inspired by the man that inspired legend of Dracula. So as both a history buff and vampire fan it was nice to vampires finally go their roots.

It deserves a sequel

Interview with the Vampire hands down beats ever other film in the genre.

Was it a bad movie? No. Was it legendary Lord of The RIngs-style awesomeness? No. For what it is it's a good movie. There's a lot of emotion involved in that this guy who had this really crappy past is trying to regain his life and live as a decent human being and then it all gets shat on by Dominic Cooper. There's some decent action and tension but the thing that sold me was the ending. When Drac is standing in modern-day London (i think it's London) it kind of sews the seeds of a possible sequel set in the modern day so we can get a modernista twist on the Dracula story. I really hope they do this because I really enjoyed Luke Evans and Charles Dance's performances.

Vlad was the defender of Europe against the Ottomans.

I love the *idea* of Dracula, vampires, human/demon hybrid sort of jazz, but I can't think of a single movie about vampires that I've ever actually enjoyed that much. It's really weird, but I seriously don't know of any decent ones at all. I've read some decent vamp novels, even found an anime that did vampires really well (ten points to Hellsing for that one, awesome show), but no movies. I can't tell if maybe Im just not as into them as I seem to think I am, which is unlikely, or there just aren't any good vampire movies.

For vampire action movies (that I've seen) it would have to go: 1. Blade 2. Dracula Untold 3. Underworld 4. Van Helsing (if it counts) So overall, I had a lot of fun watching the movie.

But why!!! What is wrong with this movie? What actually is in the plot that makes this a bad movie. Everywhere I look people say they wish it was more over the top, more darker, more bloodier, but no one actually says what is wrong with the movie itself. Is there any part of the plot that makes it a bad film, what plot elements, scenes and dialogue could have been changed to make it better. Could someone please tell me that and not "oh its just not good."?

this movie should have been rated R, the fight scenes were sadly cut in such a terrible way to get the pg13. which is a shame cause i enjoyed this movie for what it was, but it couldve been better if they had both more time to develop characters and were allowed to go full vampire

That one movie where They enter a titty bar and fight vampires that look like ghouls.

30 Days of Night! That was an awesome vampire movie. No vampires falling in love or glowing in the sun or going on some quest. They were just undead monsters who wanted to drink some blood. Plain. Simple. Scary. How vampire movies should be.

Surprisingly enjoyed this way more than i thought i would

the intro is right on point, people who played the game get this movie

misunderstood family guy? in real life he had a field of impailed dead bodies that spaned for miles. he forced people to eat their own childern. he was not misunderstood.

This could have easily been a Castlevania Lords of Shadow movie.

Does Nosferatu count?

Tywin Lannister took the power of a vampire to come back to life.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one Jeremy, I actually thought that this movie was just a little more unpredictable than you give it credit for, but that's just me. While I did think it was kinda obvious that he (SPOILER but not really) drinks the blood, I didn't really see it coming the way it did. I also didn't really think the ending was gonna go down as it did, but this is all just my thoughts on it. In the end it was a good movie, but I felt that Vlad's relationship with his wife, and the the sultan wasn't really explored enough to have any emotional meaning, and I really didn't feel the emotional tug I was probably supposed to feel when the more expendable secondary characters died. In the end it was a better movie than most critics are currently giving it credit for, but it wasn't anything revolutionary or ground breaking.

Doug Walker's favorite movie's Dracula Untold.

I didn't think of Castlevania, I thought of Hellsing Ultimate :)

Interview with a Vampire is my favorite movie in genre.

Criminally underrated movie.

Dracula Untold is easily one of the best vampire movies. Its an incredible movie.

I'd say my favorite vampire movie is a tie between Interview With The Vampire and Shadow of the Vampire with Wilem Dafoe. Maybe even Dracula: Dead and Loving It. God, I love that movie.

That Tom Cruise vampire movie

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I feel like an ass for not having seen much of the series, but I always loved that movie.

Another great review from JeremyJahns. Keep up the good work man :)

interview with a vampire would be my pic of the bunch

A movie that could have been done better but overall was pretty good. Also Luke Evans for every mythical role in Hollywood he can pretty much kill any role like that.

The first Blade movie is my favorite vampire movie of all time. I know this is going to conjure the piss storm of 2014, but I kind of liked the last few movies of the Twilight saga, simply because of all the badass powers of the vampires. (Specifically Dakota Fanning's power.)

Best vampire movie is Interview With A Vampire.

....of course the movie is predictable. It is the story of Vlad the Impaler fighting the turks and then everyone that's seen the 1992 movie knows what happens to his wife. The movie wasnt going for being unpredictable, it went for being different by giving the character a different light. Vlad wasnt a villain, he was doing what he could for his people after the hard live he had after being kidnapped by the turks as a kid.

My favorite vampire movie is 30 Days of Night, those vampires are the strongest ones I've seen that don't use any powers at all, they are just stronger. They were actually scary and were treated like an honest to god monster, not an anti-hero, or love interest, or sexy villain. They were good ol' fashioned evil beings that needed to be destroyed no matter the cost and were revolting, like the first vampires of folklore.

When I saw the trailer, I thought of Hellsing. Just sayin

Dracula untold is the best Dracula movie and I loved the heck out of it and it was enjoyable and entertaining and I watched it on the movie theater but I don't remember if I saw it on 3D

What's Castlevania Lord of Shadows?

Favourite Vampire Movie: Interview with a Vampire! By far!

Interview With The Vampire imo is one of the best vampire movies, and one of the best drama films. It's beautiful, it's acted so well from Tom and Brad, everything just yells Gothic Victorian. For full out action carnage, Blade 1 takes the cake

I loved it. I've always wondered why this movie didn't get as much as hype

30 Days of Night is pretty good

Vampire in Brooklyn ;)

I just watched this again last night and I still love it ....still wish they made a sequel

and after 6 freakin years this movie is way better on so many movies that's recently came out..