Perfectly cast and excellently played.
Tom Cruise excels as the charismatic (and slightly homoerotic) Lestat who by now has seen it all and done most of it, and a young Brad Pitt is on fine form as Louis who too late realizes the true meaning of the unlife that has been afforded him. Antonio Banderas is superb as the bored Armand and a 12 year old Kirsten Dunst gives a phenomenal performance.
Its not a deep film, you certainly should not be seeking the meaning of life or a morality tale highlighting the pitfalls of hedonism. I imagine that hedonism probably has more tits in it.
It is simply a gothic tale of the life of a vampire with excellent set pieces, fantastic delivery and full of intense dialogue. And personally speaking, I love how it ends, "You know, I've had to put up with that for centuries" (that isn't the last line, but to say anymore may spoil it).
Anyone who wants to complain that the movie isn't as good as the novel... go suck on a lollipop and stop whining like a child. The film adaptations are almost never ever better than the novel so stop trying to tell us what we already know. And don't ever say that this is a movie for girls because of the 'poster boys', it was thinking like that which stopped me from seeing 'Fight Club' in the cinema.
Rating: B
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Oh just to add, for those of us that struggle with the novels it's a bloody good film.
I just can't get to grips with the manner in which Anne Rice writes.
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