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fans out there and welcome back to my Channel movie files today we are discussing the new
Nicholas Holt and Nicholas Cage horror comedy by the name of Renfield now I had the opportunity to
see this in theaters just a couple days before releases on Friday and I got some hot takes and
I'm gonna share with you all about this film and today's spoiler free review but first let's start
the conversation in the comment section let me know if this is a film you are excited to see and
of course once you've seen it let's talk about the things you liked or maybe loved about this
film or maybe some of your dislikes or things you hated about the movie in the comments below and of
course if you all appreciated my review today consider hitting that like button sharing the
review as well as consider subscribing to the channel so it was one thing that got me super
excited about seeing this film and that is as a fan of Nicholas Cage I couldn't wait to see
him play Dracula and I'm here to tell you all he does not disappoint in the role seeing Nicholas
Cage as the Prince of Darkness he literally really save this movie for me he's definitely overacting
in the best way possible and he's asked upon to bring some comedic moments to this character but
he still manages to be frightening and menacing at the same time he's campy he's over acting but
he 100 understood the assignment so I just had so much fun when Nicholas cajun's role he's easily
the best part of this film which on that note of performances you have Ben Schwartz in this
movie who I'm a fan of he plays a character by the name of Teddy Lobo and his mother lead this Mafia
group and if I'm being honest with you all Teddy was one of the few characters to me that managed
to match the over-the-topness and the craziness of Nicholas Cage like I really enjoyed the teddy
character and now honestly I wish that Teddy and Dracula had more screen time together and if I'm
being honest I wish Dracula was in the film a little bit more in my personal opinion but
again I enjoyed Teddy and if you've ever seen Parks and Recreation he's giving you similar
Vibes to the character you played in that show in this film so I had a good time with him and
pivoting over to the lead of this film played by by Nicholas Holt who plays the Renfield character
I like Nicholas Holt and I thought that him as Renfield he was fine now when I say fine I'm
more so referring to I didn't think the way that the film wrote the character was that great but
I thought that Nicholas Holt gave me more in the role than what he was given on the page now he's
giving me similar Vibes to if you ever ever seen the two films that he made in the past such as
the character R from Warm Bodies or the character he played in Mad Max Fury Road where you can look
at him as a Villain at points the way he's able to lure people into feeding Dracula but as the
film goes on you develop his side of the story and you see him being set up as the hero of the story
and his character does bring more of the needed growliness of the film as when the film focuses
on the toxic relation between Renfield and Dracula and as we're watching Renfield fighting himself
redefining his identity and facing his abuser that to me again the script wasn't that great
but when Nicholas Holt was asked upon to bring those more groundedness that more drama him as
the actor brought me more on the role than what the script gave him so again character okay but
Nicholas Holt did the best that he could in the role which kind of last points I want to mention
this I did not expect I love the over the top goriness that we see in this film like I really
appreciate the action beats that we have here and I'm telling y'all when the film gets gory it is
extremely number one unrealistic but I enjoyed it so much I'm talking about heads being ripped
off guts exploding there's a point in this film when someone's arms get ripped off and are used
as Weapons I loved it y'all I'm telling you as the film goes on it gets bloodier and bloodier
especially when we get to this apartment raid scene and the Final Act is just full of blood
so that aspect alone so much fun I wish the film would have had more of those moments but getting
to my last Point speaking of moments I appreciated the run time which was an hour and 30 minutes and
the reason I bring that up and that transition since my criticisms here I was not a fan of this
film so I was so glad that it went by so quickly now get into the nitty-gritty here I didn't like
this movie for the most part that's mainly because I found the story and the narrative and the comedy
just didn't work for me starting off with the story first the film has all these unnecessary
subplots involving aquafina's character who I'm a fan of Aquafina as an actress if you all have
ever seen the movie The farewell she's really great in that but in this movie I did not like
her acting at all especially her character she is a police officer and the whole story with her
sister who's an FBI agent and their dad which was so underdeveloped tying that into the involvement
with the mafia Ben Schwartz character and his mother and everything revolved around
that plot was just extremely Bland and just so uninteresting to me they tried so hard to make
the mafia group look so scary scary and control they're controlling the city all that stuff to me
was just laughable in the worst way possible now switching over to the production side of this film
now I know a lot of you all probably won't care or even notice this but to me the editing was just so
jarring and so distracting and so inconsistent within the scenes on top of that I thought there
was some really bad sound mixing in this film like especially there's points in this movie where
Nicolas Cage is kind of doing like a bane accent when you can't hear him sometimes but also I blame
that on the terrible sound mixing standpoints in this film and getting into I love practical
effects and the film has some good amount of practical effects but at the same time they then
thread this CGI moments especially when it came to the blood splattering all over the place like why
are they using CGI blood and again the mixture of the CGI and the practicality of me didn't mix well
it felt like at times I was watching a straight to Sci-fi channel TV movie which going back to
mixing I mentioned how this is a horror comedy and why why I enjoyed the horrific killing scenes and
I know commie's subjective I did not find this film to be funny at all now I'm not gonna lie
there were points in when I chuckled at moments especially when it came to more of the dry humor
and to be fair when I had my screen there was a mixture of critics like myself as well as just a
general audience and the general audience for the most part was having a good time like dude
I wish I was having what they were having because they were just laughing and just enjoying all the
comedy but for me a lot of the jokes again very subjective but a lot of jokes just fell flat
for me again I appreciate the dry humor but when they were intentionally trying to be funny I just
didn't find it to be that funny but pivoting over to the writing of the film now this story comes
from Robert Kirkman who a lot of you all might know for being the co-creator of The Walking
Dead and invincible and we have a screenplay by Ryan Ridley I found the story to be so flat and
boring and I wish they would have focused more on the depth of the relationship between Renfield and
Dracula we could have simply went through all the years they've been working together I should say
him being as familiar and being his servant but instead they decided to focus on corrupt cops in
the mafia angle which again was the worst part of this film now I like to direct to this film who's
Chris McKay especially his Lego Batman film but his two live action movies this and also if you
guys have seen Amazon Studios of Tomorrow world I think totally he doesn't really handle tone well
especially looking at this movie I felt it to be so off balance having renfield's story being so
grounded and then mixing in the Supernatural over the top comedy to me was a bad mix now again I
appreciate this film being an hour and 30 minutes but whenever Nicholas Cage wasn't on screen and
we cut to those subplots that's to me when the film slowed down tremendously ultimately this
movie to me lacked depth in the story and next to no character development besides the interesting
dynamic between Renfield and Nicholas Cage I really wish they would have explored more of
the vampire mythology and it's just the story to me was just so lacking so so before I give
you all my score and my overall thoughts if you stuck around to this point in review I appreciate
you just a reminder to hit that like button share the review as well as leave me your comments below
overall cage was great as Dracula and lived up to my expectations like I said Nicholas Hope was
fine the action was entertaining the gore was so unexpected and I had the most fun when it got to
those points but ultimately the story was dull the jokes to me were not funny and it doesn't
have a lasting effect and pretty much forgettable as soon as I walked out of the film so at the end
of the day I'm gonna give hot take Renfield a two out of five for me now again based on
my experience of the audience I'm probably gonna be in the minority in this and as far as having
some a lot of criticism and not ultimately being a fan of this film but I'm okay with that that's
why I'm here to have these conversations so let me know once you see in Renfield are you more on
my side did you not have a good time in this film or did you love it it's one of your favorite films
that you've seen so far this year where matter that is let's talk about in the comments below
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