This actually looked great, in a 2-hour Marylin Manson video kind of way. As a film, it sort of spent 90 minutes getting started, just in time for Aaliyah to go "RAR! I will kill you all!" and then time for some more vampire-fu.
A real shame that the depth and complexity of Ms Rice's better early Vampire novels were lost. Characters crossed the screen for no apparent reason, and only reformed goths like me could point and say "oh, that's Mael". In fact, the film bore so little resemblance to "The Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the Damned" that they may as well have called it something completely different. So, no story, no development, poor pacing. But it's a very pretty film, and Stuart Townsend is a very pretty Lestat (better in some respects than Cruise). The stage fight is hilarious (watch out for the wires!). Paul McGann occasionally looks like he's asking himself what the hell he's doing in this film. Vincent Perez, on the other hand, gets all the best vampire lines and really made the film for me.
One for genre fans, but then we knew that.
A real shame that the depth and complexity of Ms Rice's better early Vampire novels were lost. Characters crossed the screen for no apparent reason, and only reformed goths like me could point and say "oh, that's Mael". In fact, the film bore so little resemblance to "The Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the Damned" that they may as well have called it something completely different. So, no story, no development, poor pacing. But it's a very pretty film, and Stuart Townsend is a very pretty Lestat (better in some respects than Cruise). The stage fight is hilarious (watch out for the wires!). Paul McGann occasionally looks like he's asking himself what the hell he's doing in this film. Vincent Perez, on the other hand, gets all the best vampire lines and really made the film for me.
One for genre fans, but then we knew that.