Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Although so many comments are saying that the vampire fell for the girl, what actually happened is the same thing that has happened in the past: the whole ending (pretending not to bit her, letting her nurse him, etc), the WHOLE thing was still a part of the vampire seducing her. If she had not by chance come back after finding the band-aid, she would never have known (note that suddenly he seemed so much "healthier"). He even played up his breathing issues because he knew she would sympathize. In fact, we are seeing a master at work. It was his intention all along to eat her and it was only by chance that she got away. She was lucky to have pierced his hand leading to his excessive bleeding and then he truly could no longer follow her. But he did get her to love him truly-- knowing more about what he was than any other woman ever had-- he almost got that "perfect" love he was searching for all along.

I knew nothing of the "vampire" aspect of this film before seeing it, and I wouldn't have it any other way.I thought that I had watched a film about a terrifying, eccentric, charming, brutal, tormented man who (like many of us) felt abnormal and unreal in his own skin. His internal conflict, his willingness to act against what seemed to be his nature, and his compulsion to survive were the prominent themes.The opening scene of this film is captivatingly beautiful and haunting. I believed, mistakenly, that Jude Law's character was a police officer due to his presence at an auto accident. That impression (and it truly was only my own impression) lasted until he deftly and unexpectedly killed his lover/fiancé, a woman whose life he had previously saved.After killing his fiancé, Jude Law's character endures a physical agony, and eventually "produces" and saves a long crystal-like barb, labeled with his fiancé's name. This puzzled me initially, but later in the film, he talks about his work to study bladder and kidney "stones" or formations, and their possible connection to strong emotions in the patient. I believe that each of the barbs Stephen kept were formations from his own internal organs that resulted from the emotion of killing his prey... OR, they may have been the manifestation of the the prey's emotion, as conveyed to him through their blood. (This idea is supported by his one-word emotion notation in the diaries after the death of the two women in the first half of the film.) There were definitely moments in this film that made me wonder about the nature of Stephen (e.g., his forgetting to breath; the number of diaries which indicate the number of women he has killed while still being a young man; killing his fiancé with a bite; etc.), but I did not ever assume he was a literal vampire. It seemed to be more of a figurative identity,In hind sight, Stephen's curiosity with the police investigator's crucifix would have been a little more ironic with the knowledge that he was a vampire, but not knowing did not take anything away from the film or story for me. To the contrary, I am a little disappointed that I now know.The overall revealing of Jude Law's character evolves slowly throughout the film, even until the very end. It is a fascinating depiction of complex character.There is a great deal of symbolism in the film, and it does not pander to the audience -- nothing is handed over on a silver platter. It's definitely worth a look!

This vampire movie did not have undue special effects and offered no gimmicks. The movie was alive with Romance, seduction with some gore. The Vampire played a great cat and mouse game with the police detectives, which had a great positive effect in the movie. The movie kept away from the stereotype a vampire movie normally brings. It made the theme of the movie so real compared to like movies. The acting kept me glued to the movie, and it was not predictable. Also the way the vampire became redeemed was very genuine. The behavior was not scary. It was true to life. My only wish is that the movie was longer than an hour and 39 minutes. I give the movie 7 stars.

THE WISDOM OF CROCODILES (2000) **1/2 Jude Law, Elina Lowensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport, Colin Solmon, Kerry Fox. Unusual revisionistic spin on the vampire story with Law as a mysterious man whose sexual/romantic conquests feed his otherworldly health condition (essentially devouring his lovers' blood and absorbing their emotions including love which he desperately needs to continue to live) and meets his match when he falls deeply in love with his next victim Lowensohn. Stylish and at times original but the ending betrays the setup and ultimately destroys the established rhythm. (Dir: Po Chih Leong)