Rating: Summary: Cliche as it sounds, this film is simply awesome Review: This sprawling epic adaption of the Anne Rice classic may suffer from some slow pacing and direction, but the absolutely awesome performances from Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt make Interview With the Vampire a much better film than it could have been. Cruise is simply magnificent as Lestat, the vampire who bites the grieving Louis (Pitt), and thus begins Lestat's formation of an immortal family. Cruise shines like no one (not even Rice herself) could have imagined as Lestat. Stuart Townshend has nothing on Cruise as Lestat as he carries the dark and seductive vampire trademark of the vampire, and this remains one of the best performances of his career. Brad Pitt's portrayal of Louis conveys all the remorse and melancholy that goes along with anyone stricken with immortal bloodlust. The rest of the cast includes a young Kirstin Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, and Christian Slater (in a role originally planned for River Phoenix, Slater replaced him after his untimely death), all of whom give great performances. All in all, Interview With the Vampire is one of the finest horror films of the 90's, and the final shot of the film leading into Guns 'N Roses covering the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For the Devil" while the credits are rolling is reason enough to give this a look.
Rating: Summary: I enjoyed this movie alot Review: This is one of the best vampire movies ever made besides BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA. I really liked it, and the story kept me interested. I cannot remember one dull moment. Tom Cruise gives one of his best performances, and so does everyone else, including the absolutley wonderful debut from Kirsten Dunst! This was also a very creepy movie with a freaky atmosphere, and lots of it gave me cold chills. Great movie from Neil Jordan. The score is excellent, too. The ending is one of the best that I've seen in a while!This one is recommended for older audiences, due to graphic violence and two scenes of nudity.
Rating: Summary: Interview with The Vampire... Review: Arising from the depths of Anne Rice's mind, the vampires have come forth, both elegant & savage, cultured & barbaric. Ms. Rice adds a lot more to vampire legendry than do many of the gothic novels of contemporary times. We are taken back in time with a mind that seems to have actually been there. All the characters are given such life & personality, that the story gives the impression that it could actually be feasble. There is a mysticism here, a deep fascination for the fantasy, that gives it a life all its own. The brilliance of a truly vampiric talent, resurrects the folklore into a way of existance. Many of they who feel they are born too late in this dull age of mass-consumerism. Finally, we elect are experiencing a menagerie of gothic masterpieces remade to please, & inspire one to dig up the original classics from their cobwebbed & dusty shelves of libraries & parlours. The movie is very accurate to the book, the characters dramatically animate on screen, more than enough to delight audiences, impress the fantoms, & even sufficiently please the authoress, & it is quite rare to please an author, unless the production is pretty much identical to the original. The movie was not terribly "hollywood-ized" as some other vamp films were. The book & the genre's integrity is kept intact. The world portrayed therin seems to come alive from within, a part of one's soul projected onto the screen. Tom Cruise makes for an excellent Lestat {who would have known?}, & the others do not dissapoint either. Sure, there really is no substitute for curling up on a dark & stormy night, with candlelight illuminating a good horror novel, but I think it is finally time to intigrate such marvellous movies by the darkness of a black candle's flicker. For many of us, it has already been long as such. Interview With The Vampire is top quality entertainment for vapire lovers. It contains much emotional/situational relativity to those living in morbid perspective. It is a pleaser. Romantic & enthralling. We, as Gods, will be able to relate a lot of the philosophical aspects spoken in moments of vampiric revelation. Simply put, Interview With The Vampire is fangtastic.
Rating: Summary: The death of the vampire Review: This dreary, interminable and wrong-footed attempt to modernize the vampire genre can only be justified by its homoerotic appeal, but even that must surely evaporate in the murky silliness of "Interview". Apart from anything else, the film violates the most important canon of horror literature: the "face" of the horror must never be portrayed or described, but only hinted at; its content comes from the imagination of the reader/viewer. And boy toys do not make plausible vampires at the best of times. Don't do this again.
Rating: Summary: Good Adaptation Review: I personaly am a huge fan of Anne Rice books. This was one of the best adaptations from book to movie I've seen. Unlike almost all Stephen King books, which are great, the movies always seem disappointing to me. The settings and music were great and the actors played their roles perfectly. I didn't think I would like Tom Cruise as Lestat but he did a wonderful job and everytime I reread one of the vampire books from Anne Rice I always think of Tom Cruise as Lestat. I highly reccomend this movie to anyone interested in vampire movies, it definately adds a new twist to the common vampire genre.
Rating: Summary: I was hoping for better Review: I made the worst mistake, I read the book before I saw the movie so the whole time I was thinking "Hey that's not how it was in the book." I still liked the movie but I was really hoping for better, I know they can't make the movie exactly like the book or it would get too long and too boring in some spots but well you know. I still watch it everytime it is on.
Rating: Summary: Can't Go Wrong With Interview Review: The very best vampire film ever made. This film has a great plot awesome special effects and superb acors and actreses.Order it as soon as possible, because it's a hard movie to get a hold of once you decide you wan't it. the set is great and the speccial features are almost enjoyable as the movie itself. I can't say enough good things about this story. Make sure to get the vampire chronicles series by Anne Rice. Everything about this purchase is great,you can't go wrong with interview.
Rating: Summary: Fangtastic! *yes lame I know but so wot I gave up on titles* Review: This is faithful enough to the book and the cast is excellent Cruise plays an excellent Lestat and Pitt a fantastic Louis. The special effects were magnificent and I don't think I've seen better actors or a better vampire film to date. I definitely reccomend this and all of Anne Rice's books the book does differ but the film is accurate enough. It is enjoyable and haunting and undoubtfully a film to watch
Rating: Summary: Quote the Vampire Review: Few films could match the pre-release hoopla of the 1994 vampire epic "Interview With the Vampire." Based on the now-classic Anne Rice novel and starring Hollywood big guns Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, this goth horror fantasy lived up to expectations in amazing fashion due to terrific period detail, superb performances and the always-interesting direction of the talented Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game"). Granted, much of the fascinating Rice Novel (the first of her Vampire Chronicles) was forsaken, but so much is followed verbatim that even the most dedicated devotee was - for the most part - pleased. Pitt makes a perfect Louis and, surprisingly, Cruise is terrific as Lestat. Their verbal and eventually physical warfare makes for great fireworks along the recreated riverfront of 18th and 19th century New Orleans French Quarter. This is arguably the greatest vampire film ever made, though fans of Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and Hammer's "Horror of Dracula" may disagree. But the look, the emotion and the angst of these stylish and oh-so-beautiful vampires (Antonio Banderas' Armand is also a memorable character) should capture the imagination of just about any moviegoer with a taste for the unusual. After viewing "Queen of the Damned," a sad and utterly moronic version of the third Anne Rice novel from her Vampire Chronicles, one can't help but appreciate this thoughful celluloid portrayal. Rarely hitting a bad note - with the exception of a tacked on Hollywood-Guns-and-Roses ending which nearly capsizes the entire film, "Interview With the Vampire" is a great example of what big money moviemakers and producers can create when they take supernatural material seriously. A fine film based on a fine novel. This great work will leave you thristing for more.
Rating: Summary: Good Movie Review: I don't like Tom Curise but he was good in this movie. It was close to the book but of course they did change it a little. This movie has good acting and keeps you wanting to watch more.
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