Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)

I found this movie so interesting, my.. I am not really a fan of Dracula but I wish there were more movies about the life of Vlad III Dracula, and the actor was perfect, it really did look like how you would imagine how Vlad would look, amazing! I found the story really good, I needed to do a presentation about the life of Vlad III Dracula and I learned a lot about this! Thank you! If people still need to watch this movie, just do it! I found it really good and fascinating and definitely the end, how suddenly a plot twist came, first I wanted to skip the part where he dies because I thought it was going to be very sad but then suddenly something happened! It was really interesting, and one of the best movies I had seen in times.

After I Saw The BtVS Episode "Buffy V.S Dracula" I Loved Rudolph Martin's Dracula Performance When I Found Out He Made This I Looked For It. This Was Not As I Thought "Vlads Transformation" No Its About His Actual Life Separating Fact From Fiction. From The Point Of View From A Guy Who Only Knows Dracula As The Vampire I Enjoyed It. If This Version Is Accurate Of What Vlad III The Impaler Was Like...I Would Know Not To Get Him Ticked Off Seriously The Guy Put Spears Through Anyone Who Was "Asleep On The Job" & "Did Not Serve His Country" Well Kings Or Princes Could've Had You Killed If You Looked Bad So All I'll Say Is "Even Though This World May Not Be Perfect Its Not As Bad As It Could Be" & This Also Explains Why Dracula (Vampire) Was Believed To Have Had Those Weaknesses. Let Me Explain He Grew Weary Of The Sun Because He Was In That Prison, The Rumors About Him Having The Blood Of His Victims In His Wine Cellar, He Made A Memorial To His Wife Over A Mirror & He Was Unloyal To The Catholics, Need I Go On. The Ending Did Not Make Sense To Me Vlad Comes Back To Kill The Priest...If This Film Is Implying Something Did Kill That Priest But Nobody Ever Found Out Then The Director Can't Just Throw A Wild Accusation...The Thing That Kinda Made Me Think "Wow" Was The Explorers Dug Up Dracula's Tomb & Found Nothing But Animal Bones In 1931...Weird. There Should Be More Vlad Dracula Movies I'm Not Talking About The Vampire...We've Seen Enough Of That I'm Talking About The Actual Man Too Many Films About Other Kings That Are Famous For Who They Were Not Fiction(King Henry VIII Springs To Mind Not That I Hate Movies About Henry) People Know Too Much About The Myth & Too Little About The Man So I Am Trying To Force You, The Reader, To Watch This. So You Know More About The Man & Not The Vampire...Even Though I Liked The Book I Liked This Movie As Well...AS MUCH AS THE BOOK! You Will Love This Movie If You Love The Book. Rudolph Martin Does The Best Vlad III EVER!

When Bram Stoker decided to name his famous vampire after a legendary Romanian prince, it had very very little to do with vampires at all. In fact there is only a small fraction of the original Dracula in the novel. The reality, as portrayed in this movie, is very different. Vlad was a brutal ruler, and he had his reasons. To call him evil would be ignorant. In Romanian folklore Vlad is celebrated as a national hero, and many still today pray for his return. Vlad was a patriot who took it to the limit - and beyond - since it seemed necessary at his time and situation! As for historical facts I can't tell for sure how much of this movie is true, but my research so far tells me it's between 50-75%.Go rent this movie if you'd like to get closer to knowing the real Dracula. I guarantee he's more interesting than Stokers!

Here's another take on the legend of Vlad III a.k.a. Vlad Dracula, prince of Romania during the late Fifteenth century. Luckily, this flick is not the regular vampire stuff, but an effort to partly cover Vlad's biography and partly to make another plot out of this infamous prince's actions in history. I must say that for being an adapted release aimed at television, this flick does pretty OK. Too often flicks which are aimed at television release only, become pretty poor due to low budgets in combination with wet director dreams. Here, they've somehow managed to pull all things pretty well together and it doesn't really feel as though it really is a super-B-flick.The actors' performance is generally OK, nothing that spoils it that is. For the plot and the development of it, those who are interested and have studied Vlad III might wrinkle their eyebrows a bit now and then, as the chronology skips a little now and then. All in all, it's an OK release and I'm happy to see a piece which is actually trying to cover more of the real Vlad III, compared to the more classic two-holes-in-the-neck vampire flicks which there are too many of already. 5/10 - an OK grade that is, you won't spoil your time completely and the flick is neat to kill some time with.