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User Reviews for: Renfield

Acoucalancha
4/10  2 years ago
The premise of having the story focusing on Dracula's familiar instead of Dracula himself sounded like a great original idea. The thing is Nicolas Cage as Dracula is far more interesting than whatever they tried to do with Renfield. Whenever Dracula was on-screen I was entertained but it just becomes boring whenever Renfield is around. A great deal of the movie doesn't even focus on him either, it's mostly about the local crime family and the corrupt police department subplot. They certainly tried with the comedy and I got some *What We Do in The Shadows* vibes for most of the runtime but it's not nearly as funny, nor is it an interesting satire on vampires. I'm totally ok with cringe but none of the comedy really worked for me, I laughed maybe twice. It would have been forgivable if the action sequences were good at least but that's not the case. The blood is entirely ugly-looking CGI, the action has no stakes and characters with no powers (ex: Awkwafina's character) fight as if they have powers. Awkwafina plays herself, Renfield is uninteresting and the third act was so incredibly predictable and underwhelming. Nick Cage was awesome as Dracula though, I wish he was in another movie!
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Reply by Erebos
2 years ago
@acoucalancha <br /> &gt; nor is it an interesting satire on vampires.<br /> <br /> That's because it wasn't a satire on vampires, but on malignant narcissists and co-dependency.<br /> I guess no amount of spoonfeeding is enough for some people.
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Reply by Acoucalancha
2 years ago
@erebos this is, without a doubt, a satire on vampires... it might be a satire on other stuff too but I didn't bother saying it because who cares about metaphors in a movie like this, it's an action Dracula movie with CGI blood and a very bad one at that. Adding a metaphor or two doesn't make it good. If you have an opinion that says otherwise, go write your own review.
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