As someone who really likes vampire movies, from old classics to new, even cheap but entertaining ones, I watched The Addiction again after 20 years.
While I couldn't remember much besides it being somewhat weird and a few scenes with a great Christopher Walken, I wanted to see how it was going to hold up now.
God, what a drag most of the time. While scanning other reviews I read the word presumptuous at least twice. That's the perfect word to describe this flick.
Non-stop pseudo-intellectual blah blah, no matter which philosophic approach the student and then reborn vampire decides to follow. In that regard it seemed more like a parody of how some young "brainiacs" from universities turn out.
Some love The addiction, some hate it. Obviously, I strongly sympathize with the latter.
While the acting is good the script is not, and the director Ferrara is mediocre at best. I can only repeat what this movie is: It is presumptuous!
Rated it a 4 just because of the actors, especially Christopher Walken who did a fine job. Still, there is no real reason to watch it, unless you love to listen to nonsensical tirades.
God, what a drag most of the time. While scanning other reviews I read the word presumptuous at least twice. That's the perfect word to describe this flick.
Non-stop pseudo-intellectual blah blah, no matter which philosophic approach the student and then reborn vampire decides to follow. In that regard it seemed more like a parody of how some young "brainiacs" from universities turn out.
Some love The addiction, some hate it. Obviously, I strongly sympathize with the latter.
While the acting is good the script is not, and the director Ferrara is mediocre at best. I can only repeat what this movie is: It is presumptuous!
Rated it a 4 just because of the actors, especially Christopher Walken who did a fine job. Still, there is no real reason to watch it, unless you love to listen to nonsensical tirades.