I got this because there was a decent deal for a used DVD at Amazon, and I looked at some of the comments at IMDb and figured it would be okay. And it was, well, okay. But if you want something that isn't kind of boring and makes sense at the end, then this isn't the movie for you.
It's a good-looking movie, and Dougray Scott remains a handsome fellow, but that's about all you can say for this. And I KNOW Saffron Burrows can be so much more interesting than she is here. They give her nothing to do--just emptiness, no interesting lines, no interesting moments, she has nothing to act with or against. Just standing there looking blank. And that's completely unfair of the filmmakers, because she's a beautiful, intriguing actress.
So there's this villainous vampire dude (as opposed to our righteous vampire dude Dougray Scott) and he's, like, poisoning everyone with some sort of virus he's creating and is in his blood? Well, this never comes to much of a boil. He lurks about being evil, and then there's a lackadaisical fight, and then he's stabbed from behind by Saffron. Yeah? So? And then the movie ends with the discovery that there's some baby who is a 'perfect creature' who was born in the virus containment zone. And she's a 'perfect creature' because why? I dunno. Because she's a good-guy vampire AND a human AND immune to the virus? Or some or none of the above? Or sumpthin'. And Saffron and Dougray are going to raise her and are in hiding and Dougray is on the outs with the world of vampires and men for some vague reason. Because he didn't advocate wiping out the infected zone of the city? Or sumpthin'? There needs to be another half hour of plot development or exposition for any of this to make any sense, but I say, oh, god, please, no, no, no. It's all so slow-paced and tedious. No more!! I beg of you!! If you don't like gore (and I don't like gore), then any grossness here is pretty small and minor and contained. You CAN therefore watch this without puking. But that's about all you can say for this.
I know some talent went into the making of this film, but none of it gelled.
Oh--and it takes place on some sort of alternative world where 100 years after the Victorian age the style of everything is Victoriana married to the 1940s. Horse buggies and old-fashioned clothes and big-ass cars and primitive TVs. Just sorta silly. ...In one shot Dougray Scott in outline looks exactly like the vampire in 'Nosferatu'--the shot and the cut of his frock-coat had to have been taken from that film.
It's a good-looking movie, and Dougray Scott remains a handsome fellow, but that's about all you can say for this. And I KNOW Saffron Burrows can be so much more interesting than she is here. They give her nothing to do--just emptiness, no interesting lines, no interesting moments, she has nothing to act with or against. Just standing there looking blank. And that's completely unfair of the filmmakers, because she's a beautiful, intriguing actress.
So there's this villainous vampire dude (as opposed to our righteous vampire dude Dougray Scott) and he's, like, poisoning everyone with some sort of virus he's creating and is in his blood? Well, this never comes to much of a boil. He lurks about being evil, and then there's a lackadaisical fight, and then he's stabbed from behind by Saffron. Yeah? So? And then the movie ends with the discovery that there's some baby who is a 'perfect creature' who was born in the virus containment zone. And she's a 'perfect creature' because why? I dunno. Because she's a good-guy vampire AND a human AND immune to the virus? Or some or none of the above? Or sumpthin'. And Saffron and Dougray are going to raise her and are in hiding and Dougray is on the outs with the world of vampires and men for some vague reason. Because he didn't advocate wiping out the infected zone of the city? Or sumpthin'? There needs to be another half hour of plot development or exposition for any of this to make any sense, but I say, oh, god, please, no, no, no. It's all so slow-paced and tedious. No more!! I beg of you!! If you don't like gore (and I don't like gore), then any grossness here is pretty small and minor and contained. You CAN therefore watch this without puking. But that's about all you can say for this.
I know some talent went into the making of this film, but none of it gelled.
Oh--and it takes place on some sort of alternative world where 100 years after the Victorian age the style of everything is Victoriana married to the 1940s. Horse buggies and old-fashioned clothes and big-ass cars and primitive TVs. Just sorta silly. ...In one shot Dougray Scott in outline looks exactly like the vampire in 'Nosferatu'--the shot and the cut of his frock-coat had to have been taken from that film.