Dracula
Untold
**
Dir: Gary Shore. With: Luke Evans, Dominic
Cooper, Sarah Gadon. 92 mins. Cert: 15
This cursory reboot
adopts the Mirth-free Mythology tactic beloved of modern superhero ventures. To
save Transylvania, Luke Evans’ RADA-diction Vlad the Impaler accepts a taster
of eternal life as though it were free anti-virus software; a Bisto-tanned
Dominic Cooper is his boy-coveting Turkish nemesis. Adland graduate Gary Shore
gives it a functional sheen, but is mostly exercised trying to obscure
budgetary shortfalls with cheaper-by-the-dozen CG bats and the usual slapdash
cutting. Its no-frills, B-movie modesty might have been winning if the whole
didn’t seem so dashed-off: the concluding sequel set-up is both more promising
than anything preceding it and optimistic, to say the least.
Dracula Untold opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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