I was expecting a poor sequel, similar in nature to the Dusk to Dawn franchise, but I was somewhat surprised. This movie follows the same pattern as the first John Carpenters' Vampires (1998), but features none of the same actors. John Bon Jovi does a quite credible job as the vampire hunter, and Natasha Wagner performs well as the partially infected vampire, rounded out by a resonable supporting cast of hunter assistants, who actually manage to survive the second scene. The problems with this movie mainly come from lack of motivation of several of the characters, particularly Zoey, and strange mistakes made by the villan Arly Jover (from Blade), who up until the final was quite intelligent and managed to fool the hunters at every point. And a general lack of energy from the cast. If you liked the first one you will like this as well. Well worth a rental for anyone who likes the vampire genre.
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Dumbo
(1941)
Not suitable for children?
9 February 1999
Like Bambi, I saw this as a young child and was bothered by the movie. Rating movies I compare them to other movies in the same genre, and as a children's movie I would have to give this a "3". What could be more traumatizing to a young child, than the loss of one's mother? I, as a child, was not even aware of that possibilty until viewing of these movies. While life lessons should be learned, I don't think that this is necessarily the correct medium for that without some warning. Perhaps we need a NC-4 rating?
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