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Dracula 3: Legacy

2002, Movie, R, 90 mins

Dracula 3: Legacy: Review

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Just as ALIENS (1986) favored action over the pure horror of its 1978 predecessor, so too this modernized DRACULA cranks up more visceral thrills than earlier versions. After the Vatican dismisses Father Uffizi (Jason Scott Lee) from his vampire-hunting duties, the defrocked priest joins forces with fellow undead exterminator Luke (Jason London). Luke's pledge to rescue his abducted sweetheart, Elizabeth (Diane Neal), leads them to civil war-torn Romania. In addition to searching out children of the night, they face human enemies like nationalist paramilitary squadrons, garlic-wearing rebels and calculating warlords. While the army and the revolutionaries pick each other off, roving capitalists procure fresh peasants for Dracula(Rutger Hauer), who's holed up in his remote castle. En route to the Prince of Darkness' lair, Uffizi and Luke witness the massacre of peacekeeping squadrons, ward off a band of blood-sucking circus performers and come to the aid of a stranded TV news crew, though they're only able to save anchorwoman Julia Hughes (Alexandra Westcourt). Himself infected the Undead, Uffizi can risk entering Dracula's territory, but warns the untainted Luke and Julia not to stay clear. While steeling himself for his showdown with the immortal monster, Uffizi must also fight the plague within himsels. Julia and Luke foolishly disregard his prescient advice, and while Julia resists the vampire's seductive wiles, Luke locates Elizabeth in a vile dungeon where Dracula's discarded victims feed off each other. Can Uffizi prevent Julia from becoming Dracula's next bride? Director Patrick Lussier is willing and able to go for broke, and his genre enthusiasm keeps this installment in Dimension's revisionist vampire franchise moving along at a brisk and bloody clip. Top-flight production values and excellent second unit work help compensate for the quip- and pun-riddled screenplay, which Lussier penned with genre veteran Joel Soisson. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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