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Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000

Starring Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Gerard Butler, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Jennifer Esposito

MPAA RATING: R for violence/gore, language and some sexuality

Dimension Films
Horror
127 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters December 22, 2000

Dracula, freed at last from a century in confinement, finds himself in a 21st century of chaos and temptation. (Dimension Films)

WRITTEN BY
Joel Soisson
Bram Stoker (novel)
Patrick Lussier (story)

DIRECTED BY
Patrick Lussier

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

26 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Film.com Gemma Files
One way or the other, there really is something to be said for a movie which seems to revel in its own inherent comic-book silliness.
50 Los Angeles Times David Chute
Dracula 2000 is at heart a solidly old-fashioned cloak-and-fangs vampire flick. It honors the central traditions of the form a lot more often than it skewers them.
50 LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
Although it's not half bad -- which doesn't mean it's half good -- this horror cheapie comes equipped with a few ideas, a little atmosphere and a couple of serviceable scares.
50 Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A middling film through and through, despite the occasional shocks it tries to earnestly to achieve.
50 Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
By making concessions for a possible sequel, Dracula 2000 wilts when compared in the light with other Dracula films.
42 Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
One of those desultory F/X and no script potboilers that seems to restart itself with every new scene.
40 TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
In the end it's the same old blood pudding.
38 New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
There's a lot of scary stuff in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. There are eyeball-sucking leeches, decapitations, punctured necks... and appalling acting.
30 Variety Joe Leydon
Overall, though, the slapdash pic appears to be the work of folks who made things up as they went along; you might say they were, well, vamping.
20 Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The gratuitous use of the city (New Orleans) during Mardi Gras is the least of this movie's unoriginal sins.
17 Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
Dracula 2000 is a stake in the heart.
10 Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Dracula may stay undead in the new millennium, but there's not a sign of life - oh, that bloodless acting - in this sorry mess.
0 The New York Times Stephen Holden
It's a little sad to see actors of the quality of Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller struggling straight- faced to dignify this sewage.
0 New York Post V. A. Musetto
Bloody awful movie.

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