Vlad the impaler movie movie#

In the end, it seems this was a story better left untold.Д¬ast: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance. The action, then, is like the story: ambitiously staged yet entirely undistinguished. The action sequences are rushed and muddy, filmed too fast and dark to follow the action - which is stakeless anyway, because Vlad now has the ability to decimate an entire army singlehandedly. It's aiming more for sweeping historical epic, but it doesn't work on either level. Aside from Dance and some hazy views of impaled bodies, the film is low on shock and gore.

Vlad the impaler movie movie#

'Dracula Untold' isn't really operating as a horror movie anyway.

This is all pretty tortured, even in a genre packed with tortured lore the fact that it's so boring makes it even harder for you to sink your teeth into.

Vlad's got three days' worth of super powers to defeat the Turkish army, unless he takes human blood and completely commits to the dark side. The reality is that Vlad the Impaler was and still is considered by the Romanians one of their most righteous and fair kings. There, he finds the master vampire, played by the fantastic Charles Dance, who chews through scenery with fangs and relish as he transforms Vlad (one longs to see him in the role of Dracula instead). An ridiculous Turkish propaganda using the name of Dracula as a tool of getting people to watching the movie. So Vlad lights out for a creepy cave where he once survived an attack by a strange monster to seek the source its powers. He defies the sultan's demand, a move that foretells certain death. Taken hostage as a teenage prince by warring Turks and trained in savage combat, Vlad, now an adult Transylvanian ruler, knows the horrors in store for his son. It's with that same mentality that Vlad balks at the Sultan (Dominic Cooper) when he demands 1,000 Transylvanian boys to join the ranks of his Turkish army, including Vlad's fragile, only son. Sometimes what it needs is a monster,' he says, unconvincingly. 'Sometimes the world no longer needs a hero. It's a blood-soaked historical era, but the film's take is so tepid that it tries to frame the impaling of an entire village (seen only faintly and obscured by fog, to keep the field of bodies pierced with spikes PG-13 friendly) as the heroic act of a thoughtful ruler concerned about the greater good rather than an act of incomprehensible savagery. But that's what you get in tepid origin tale 'Dracula Untold,' which casts a pretty face (Luke Evans) as Vlad, who's here reimagined as a devoted husband and father willing to venture into the undead to protect his family. There are many adjectives that can be used to describe Transylvania-born Vlad the Impaler, a medieval Wallachian ruler so barbarous, Bram Stoker borrowed his family name for his own monster, 'Dracula.'