so honestly I went into this film pretty cold I didn't watch any teaser trailers
I didn't watch a full-length trailer because growing up as a kid I love
horror y'all I love supernatural horror and particularly so I always get excited about
a new werewolf movie about a new vampire movie about a new movie about Dracula so
when I heard the premise of this film Dracula on a ship what can go wrong
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what's going on movie fans and welcome back to my channel Elliot here with a brand new movie review
and today we're discussing the new supernatural horror film by the name of the last Voyage of the
demeanor now I had the opportunity to check this out a couple days early and I'm gonna let y'all
know by the end of this review if I think the Sim was worth checking out in theaters but first
I want to talk to my horror fans in the comment section let me know if you always like to check
out this movie and of course once you've seen it let's talk about the pros and the cons but also
if you are a fan of Dracula like myself why don't you list some of your favorite Dracula projects
in the comments below so if you are subscribed to the channel which I hope you are I release
my other theater reaction last night and it was a mixed review for me but as I said in that video I
want to come back give you my full length review speaking more on the positives but also talking
more about the negatives so here we are so with that being said let's jump into my thoughts and
I want to start off with the positives and I want to talk about about the productional
value of this film because I found this film to be really well made whether we have moments of
being on the ocean and how we are on this ship and how everything this felt like it was handcrafted
to Perfection very detailed very authentic to the time period the way that the costumes fit
it the way that the characters are speaking to one another reacting to certain things it felt
very well made as well as just jump into tonally speaking this is a very moody movie it is gothic
it is gloomy it is Dreadful it's very atmospheric so from a productional standpoint it looks really
well made tonally it is very consistent which I really appreciated and yes that is all credit
to a great production team whether it's the set design the hair and makeup Department the
cinematographer the composer to really set the mood with the score of the movie but also you
have to have a good director with a good eye and we have a really solid director who I'm a fan of
whether it's his 2016 film the autopsy of Jane Doe which is a a great horror film for my horror
fans out there that haven't seen and I highly recommend that movie but I say all that to say
the director has a style he has an eye he has a great sensibility of setting the mood in his home
so I'm very much a fan of how the film looked for the most part from a reductional standpoint but
I also want to give praise to the performances because as I said in my automated reaction the
story as we'll talk about later isn't the best but it's the performances that elevate that story
starting off with the lead of this film who is Corey Hawkins who plays Clemens who's the doctor
of this film and as you'll see with the movie he has his own reasons why he's on this ship and he
has his ideology of how he wants to change the world and how that plays into this narrative I
thought it was a really good Arc for the character but just a side note here I really enjoy Corey's
performance but I am a fan of Corey Hawkins as an actor and I really like the way he's shaping
up his career you look at my first time seeing him with the being Dr Dre and and Straight Out
of Compton then he jumps into a big film like Kong Island then he jumps into a spikely black klansman
then he gets into a blockbuster with Michael Bay and six underground and then you have movies like
the tragedy of Macbeth and then you have this and then you have the color purple later this
year so I like Corey a lot and I thought he was really great in his film but also you have some
great supporting performances whether it be Ashley francioni who plays Anna now I don't want to get
too much away about her character because it's a very mysterious nature to what she does in this
film but she was in a film called the nighting Gown from Jennifer Kent a couple years she is
great at playing mysterious but also vulnerable but also tough and she's really great in this
movie even though she doesn't have that much screen time when she is on screen you feel her
presence but also while any of my Game of Thrones fans out there we also have Liam Cunningham in his
film who plays Captain Elliot and I really enjoyed another character that isn't in it as much as I
wished he wanted would have been because I'm a fan of his him as an actor but I really enjoyed his
presence and just kind of his vulnerability and just him as a captain of the ship but also paired
with his young companion his grandson the film played by Woody Norman who plays Toby in his film
I like that kid who plays the kid Toby he's really great in this movie but also he was in the film
I reviewed a couple weeks ago called cobweb and he's a young up-and-coming actor he's been in some
really good horror films recently and I really like that kid he's really great in this movie he
has a really good great sad moment in this film that I really enjoy so the performance again the
story The Script not the greatest and we'll talk about that more in depth later but I like how the
performances really feel well-rounded and you feel the nuance and the kind of Truth to these
characters like the actors believe in what their characters are doing which I really appreciate
it but some final points that I wanted to mention this is a horror film with Dracula I thought that
some of the kill sequences were very effective I like how the film takes advantage of Dracula
and how he hunts his prey in the ways he uses deceptiveness to lure them in to suck their blood
so I I liked some of the moments with the kills with Dracula but also I will mention speaking of
I was very surprised by how far this film went with not necessarily how the kills were handled
but what they do with certain characters and how they kill them off was like it kind of caught me
by surprise I believe this is rated R and when you see the film you'll understand what I'm referring
to about like oh they're going there huh so I do applaud some of the more Darkness to the narrative
and some of the kills that we have in this film so those are my main Pros let's get into some of my
criticisms here now this is based on a chapter of the Dracula novel and at times you can feel
that they took advantage of like the creative Direction the film which I applaud but there's
goodness in a chapter of a book but when you have to stretch it out for two hours that's when this
film kind of felt short to me because I felt it was repetitive at points in really unnecessary
dive into some of the more second Dairy plots to make this a two hour run time which I didn't feel
like it needed to be two hours like I think there is a really excellent hour and a half version of
this film Without Really fluffing it out dragging things on so again great premise for a chapter of
a novel but when you have to stretch it out you feel some of the weight kind of bogging down the
story but also sticking to that point that leads me into you're trapped on a ship with Dracula that
can only take you so far because you feel like the characters aren't reacting properly to the
situation or the plot sometimes feels like the characters are making illogical decisions just
to make the plot move forward and there are many moments in this film where I'm like why would you
do that who would think that that's a good idea and why are you doing this at night and not in
the day I'm gonna stop there but there were many moments where I'm like man this is only can go so
far right it almost feels like it's a good short film within the premise that at this again feels
like they dragged on certain things to make that run time time but final points I want to mention
Dracula the Dracula of it all which I will admit I do like some of the look in the film we'll talk
about the look of Dracula here in a second but not in the movie enough for my personal taste I'm
a Dracula fan I love Dracula I love when they're Dracula different iterations of character where
there's layers there's different forms of Dracula and in this movie we only see one version for
the most part of Dracula and that's the Savage nature the Beast of the character which it has
its moments but I love a multi-faceted dragon I love multiple layers of Dracula we only get
one side of the character which felt a little short for me and again they're not in the movie
as much as I personally would have liked to see Dracula wreaking havoc but talking about the look
of Dracula now there's a a good amount in the film especially when there's close-ups of the
character where you can tell as practical effects there's an actor that plays dracula and I like the
physicality of the actor but then you can also tell where there's like certain shots of Dracula
in the air and whatnot and certain quick movements where it's like ah those are visual effects a CGI
and not that it looked bad but the visual effects I prefer practicality a hundred percent of the
time right and I understand sometimes you got to cut Corners to kind of make it fit within
what you're trying to accomplish but it took me out of the film when we saw the more obvious CGI
VFX of the character which again took me out of certain scenes and made it less menacing made
it less scary to see Dracula on screen but final point I want to mention here going back to what I
mentioned about the Dracula of it all I wish there was just more of Dracula more of the deceitfulness
of the character like there are moments where he's in some of the characters heads but I wish we
would have lean more into the lore the mythology more dialogue more tricks more moments of seeing
the character at its height of his power versus kind of getting to where this film is getting
out of the character so again I'm a Dracula fanatic and I just wish that there was more to
the character and then one one more thing I want to mention this might be a slight spoiler so I'm
going to put on the screen Now spoiler warning and I'll remove it once I'm done spoiling it so you
have been worn five four three two one the ending of the movie without getting too much into the
weeds but the idea of less attack Dracula at night time unless let's sink the ship like okay sure why
didn't anyone think of the idea of doing that in the daytime why wouldn't they set that [ __ ] on
fire in the daytime when Dracula is in his bed and they knew where he was and they waited to night
time that was just going back to us at illogical decisions those are one of the decisions that just
baffled me in the movie so and there's also some other things like I thought that they should have
made the captain second command like being like a Renfield character and working for Dracula the
whole time there's many other things that I'm like I wish they would have went that direction
but spoiler warning that's that's something that I did not like about the film towards
the end but hey those are the pros those are the cons before I give you all my over raw thoughts
if you stuck around to the point in a review I really appreciate you all if you're having a good
time because I'm certainly am hit the like button consider sharing and also consider subscribing to
the Channel with that being said overall the last Voyage of the demeanor does a good job
of creating a creepy atmospheric environment and stays consistent within its tone I really enjoyed
the performances for the most part because I feel like they elevated a very Bland narrative but as a
chapter of a novel that works but when you look at it as a full-length two-hour feature film that's
where I feel the story kind of let down one and more Dracula one to see more of the character and
being in the confined space there really some limitations with the story I'm gonna give the
demeanor movie a 2.8 out of 5. now it's not trash it's it's not something I wouldn't recommend but
I would lower the expectations and I would say if you are not a fan of horror this would be like a
good starter pack for a horror movie like it's not too scary at all to me and it does doesn't really
do too many things that make you like terrified so I think this is a good starter pack for like a new
movie to horror films but for someone like myself that loves horror love Dracula it was kind of
disappointing that's why again I gave it a 2.8 out of five so hey that's my thoughts share yours in
the comments below once you've seen the film let's talk about your Pros but also your cons and if you
stuck around to my little spoiler portion let me know what you thought about all that but again
you all are awesome hope you appreciate today's review before we wrap things up again I want to
thank you all and just remind you to like share comment and consider subscribing to the channel
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