A tepid origin story that imagines Dracula as a virtuous family man. Can you say boring?

“Dracula Untold” review: The vampire genre gets a transfusion from Middle Earth in this Dracula prequel. Allegorical, and dumb.

The origin story of Bram Stoker's famous vampire character

Dracula Untold is a movie that gives good trailer. That's not surprising because it's a visually arresting saga. Unfortunately, the story in the final, full ...

As effective and fat-free as its sinewy star, Luke Evans, "Dracula Untold" proves an absorbing, swiftly comprehensive origin tale.

This is how the real bat-man begins. Luke Evans of “Fast & Furious 6” is sufficiently swashbuckling to play Prince Vlad, a 15th-century warrior defending...

The origins story “Dracula Untold” is Dracula unbold — unoriginal, unimaginative and utterly non-unprecedented. This Vlad the Impaler has all the edge ...

Gary Shore’s “Dracula Untold” is an origin story, recasting Prince Vlad (the Impaler) as an antihero.

Gary Shore’s “Dracula Untold” is an origin story, recasting Prince Vlad (the Impaler) as an antihero.

A re-do of the classic horror story that focuses on 15th-century Romania and tries hard to turn the monster into some sort of tragic superhero. It makes sens...

Dracula Untold purports to relate the origin of how the world's most famous vampire became the creature we all know and fear. Unfortunately, Gary Shore's fil...

Evans is surprisingly good at smoldering, and special-effects-reliant shots of Vlad turning into a monster are usually pretty enticing. There's not much more...

So it wasn’t the rains that kept the Turks from getting their cannons to Vienna, seizing the city and ending Western Civilization in the late 15th/early 16...

aka The Lightly Fictionalized Rehabilitation of the Historical Vlad III "The Impaler" Tepes of the House of Draculesti, Prince of Wallachia, Former Hostage o...

Lightweight origin story is dull and bloodless.

A revival of Dracula casts him in an origin story that looks suspiciously like that of a superhero, but with more impaling.

Origin story wants us to know that Vlad the Impaler was really just a nice guy with his heart in the right place, unless you happen to put a stake through it

In this non-horror origins story about the world's favorite bloodsucker, Luke Evans plays Vlad the Impaler as an action-film hunk with a bit of a Jesus glow

'Dracula Untold' no sparkly 'Twilight,' and that may be a good thing. But was Vlad snarky?

There’s nothing new under the moon in “Dracula Untold,” a decorous but dull origin story that attempts to turn history’s most famous vampire into a k...

A revisionist prequel to the classic vampire tale.