Fans will hail the return of Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman to the fray, together with the trusty Bat-pod, which gives perhaps the sleekest performance of all.
Gary Oldman, who plays Dracula, is perfectly opaque and remote in the seduction scenes: he has no sex appeal. (As the old Dracula, leering wrinkedly beneath a crullerlike coiffure, Oldman has his moments, though.) The picture just keeps coming at us indefatigably, unstoppably, as if it were pursuing us through eternity, and it leaves us feeling mysteriously drained.