So here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic Dracula mythology, now with Luc Besson’s wan, derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. The movie, big surprise, wants to be more “romantic” than horrific (my sarcasm descends from the fact that this is really an entire category of Dracula movie, dating back to the 1979 Frank Langella version). Come for the fangs, stay for the swoons. As the kids used to say, BFD.
