Rich Wagner

When the film stayed with the original story, it was done well. It was when they embellished the story; for example, the young boy playing the violin (several times in the film), or the crowd of Gypsies hounding Harker outside the inn, the film was dreadful to watch. Where they got it right; Dracula lementing about the absence of love or how immortality was worse than death, the viewer can pity Dracula.

Like all sci-fi, the story can sometimes be a little silly, but the fast paced action moves from crisis to crisis while introducing each of the main cast. A nice, young cast. Instead of the typical "fade to black" between the scenes, we're often treated to a space view of the ship which makes the story less choppy. While there is some violence and even a murder investigation, the story has very little shoot em ups scenes.