Why so much hype?

That was an excellent one.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I admit that I was too hard on the original "Dracula 2000" even though I still believe I didn't like it. This is a fairly pointless movie. It features an entirely new cast and there's no real main revelations about Dracula. The first one at least had an interesting twist. The worst part of this movie is probably the ending. It features the main hero being defeated and Dracula just leaves and doesn't kill him.The entire movie comes off as pointless. There's this other guy who deliberately becomes a vampire because he just wants to be immortal or something. This is one of the few times it's mentioned vampires are obsessed with counting. That's how we got the Count from "Sesame Street"! The characters bring Dracula back and it's mostly out of stupidity. I wish they'd thought this more through. *1/2

The movie was OK. The problem I had was that it was to be a sequel to Drac 2000. Problem was...no carry over characters and most importantly totally ignored how the first one ended. The only thing that attached was a brief flash back to the first one and that is it. No continuity. I can overlook a lot but continuity between sequels and prequels drives me bonkers. I can forgive editing errors. I can even forgive when things like a mic drop in a scene but if you are going to do multiples you must must must have concept and script continuity. If you don't you might as well have them as entirely different movies. I can understand why butler wasn't in this $$$$. I would have liked to seen Johnny Lee Miller and Justine Waddell. To some it up what do I know I am just a movie junkie with all the training and no place to use it

This is another one of that modern vampire stories that is not much more than a Blade copy. In this case, Wesley Snipes is a Hawaiian looking Priest, called "Father Uffizi" (played by Jason Scott Lee). Father Uffizi, that name sounds so absurdly funny, that I have been so much in shock after hearing it for the first time, that I couldn't even laugh. Fortunately, the movie is not as ridicules as most other B-Movies. The acting is decent, music is quite good, even the atmosphere wasn't that shabby. Overall though, there was nothing that has been above average. In the end, this was nothing but another brain dead action-flick without any depths. I personally liked the ending, since it seemed, like the absolute evil is finally winning. That is something I wanted to see for a long, long time. If Dracula is so evil and powerful - almost omnipotent - why the hell is he killed in every single vampire movie? I personally don't quite get it, and I find it refreshing, that the evil guys finally won in a Vampire movie. Too bad that it was more a cliff-hanger than an ending. Since in the 3rd Part, of course, will the good guys win, and of course will the end-boss be staked... boring...

Let's start with the other opinion about the people in Dracula 2000 leaving Dracula's body hanging. That is just not true. At the end of 2000, Mary has a voice over that says something about her accepting the job of guarding over the remains of Dracula, while the scene is of her and the other guy locking up the coffin in Van Helsing's vault. Now, either Wes Craven forgot that little tidbit of info, or he figured fans like me wouldn't watch the two movies in a row and notice the huge oversight? How could Mary put the wrong remains in her coffin? I don't think there are a lot of flaming,hung from a cross bodies lying around...even in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. I agree that the story left a lot to be desired, but there was enough gore to satisfy any vampire fan. However, there is no way that this blond freak is a better vampire than Gerard Butler. He has more Dracula qualities in his little finger than that guy in his whole body. That scene in 2000 where he kills Christopher Plummer, you see him only in shadows with just one eye gleaming in the moonlight. That was enough to give me the chills. In contrast a pasty white vampire snarling at everyone doing a poor imitation of Reagan from the Exorcist just makes me laugh. Too bad Gerry was probably to busy to reprise his role for the second film, he might have made the movie at least enjoyable.