My Problems with this Movie

After purchasing the second installment of this series on previously viewed disc and loving it for the talents of both Jason Scott Lee and Diane Neal (ADA Casey Novak on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit). I bought Drac III with the hope that it would continue to develope and give us more of Elizabeth Blaine's character. What a disappointment.

While the movie on a whole is good, the gaping holes are so evident. For me what it has to do with is the lack of airtime for the two people who SHOULD have been in this movie...and they are Dracula and Elizabeth. Sitting through most of the movie, we only got to see them in the last twenty minutes, but then, only for a few scenes each. Considering who they got to play Dracula, I would have hoped Rutger Hauer meant more than just being relegated to a cameo. And that was another problem I had with this movie. Why the cast change from Stephen Billington to Rutger Hauer? Continuity counts in these kinds of movies, and the chemistry with Diane and Billington was to say the least, HOT. What would have been the harm of taking out the reporter and giving us more of Elizabeth, considering it was she who Luke and Ufizzi travelled to Romania to find, wasn't it?

Overall, this movie was disappointing. Why couldn't we have gotten more of the reasons why Dracula chose Elizabeth and took her with him? Why was Elizabeth reduced to the level of a sucking orgy in a cellar and the reporter given an 'exhalted' place in Dracula's bed? These things made no sense at all. I wanted a movie with Dracula and Elizabeth...why didn't I get one after paying almost $40.00 fot this movie?

"Sometimes my ruminations are too confusing for someone not inside my head." -Anon