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DONT GO ON A SHIP WHEN THERES DEAD PEOPLE.

THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT A SHIP THAT CRASHES AND PEOPLE COME AND FIND DEAD BODIES AND LOTS OF BLOOD EVERYWARE.WHEN THE VAMPIRE(EDDIE) YOU BETTER RUN OR HE MIGHT JUST GET YOU. END

Not an EDDIE MURPHY movie & certainly no WES CRAVEN one either!

So just what type of film is this? I haven't a clue, the film seems to be unsure of this too, at moments we get some sheer comedy, while at other times we get a serious minded horror movie, however unlike most films such as IDLE HANDS & EVIL DEAD 2, where there was a perfect blend of comedy & horror, VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN's mix does not always work, it's like watching two separate versions of this tale all at once, while the actors, direction & special effects make-up were good, the film falls into a mediocre fare. The story goes that Murphy's vampire character comes to Brooklyn to find a bride, tagging along is a slave that was once human who has been turned into a zombie by Max the vampire & in several humorous moments (Though gross too) parts of him falls off as he slowly decays & when Max the vampire thinks he's found his bride in the form of police officer ANGELA BASSETT, her partner tries to rescue her from Max's clutches as she is slowly falling under Max's spell. A major problem concerning this film was in it's pre-production, Murphy who was a fan of Wes horror films like SERPENT & THE RAINBOW, had hoped to work with the director on a film that him & his brother Charlie wrote, Craven accepted the assignment & was more than happy to work with Murphy, the problem was, was that Wes had hoped to leave the horror genre (Which he has tried to do unsuccessfully for a few years now) & do a comedy with Murphy, but Murphy had hoped to do a horror film with Wes Craven, & Paramount pictures was determined to get a comedy from Murphy, after several re-writes in which the writers tried to please the Paramount execs, Murphy fans & Craven fans both, we have wound up with this, that is not really for Murphy or Craven fans, it's just a major mess, Murphy tries hard to give his best performance but it doesn't help. Not a total loss, but nothing worthwhile either, I say skip it & check out some of Craven's & Murphy's other works instead, since they are so much better than this movie, which unwisely leaves the door open for a sequel.** stars

''Evil Is Good''

I LOIVED this movie it's one of my fav Vampire films I mean I don't know what the big deal was it was not bad at all it ROCKED.Okey when I fist got it I thoght it's gowing to be one of those corny stupid vampire films how wrong was I it was one of those films where the bad guy is the star and thats why I liked it I mean the atting was good the story was good it's a very very good film

Fun Vampire Movie

Vampire In Brooklyn is a good movie, only slowed down by the ending which was unimpressive. The fight between Max and Justice was a little disappointing. Other than that, the jokes are funny and the story is interesting. I loved the ending. Overall, a good movie, but not that great.

Not As Bad As You Think, But Not As Good As You Think, Either

"Vampire In Brooklyn" is not as bad as everyone thinks it is. However, parts of it isn't as good, either. Maximillian (Eddie Murphy)is the last of his race and needs to find his mate or else the line ends. Rita (Angela Bassett)is the object of his desire. It seems that her mother had a fling with a vampire many years ago and Rita is the result. Knowing this, Max uses every mean at his disposal, including recruiting a hustler named Julius (Kadeem Hardison), to bring out Rita's vampire side. Some parts are funny (Julius constantly losing body parts), but others drag the film down (Murphy AGAIN playing multiple parts). The fact that a stunt woman lost her life while doing this film (At least they could have dedicated the film to her)brings the humor down a bit. Maybe this film is the reason why Murphy sticks to kid films, instead.

EDDIE

ALL I CAN SY IS GOTTA GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE CUS EDDIE IS A HOT MESS AND CUS HES MAD CRAZY.

Probably the worst film I have ever seen. Avoid it!

This film is mind-numbingly awful. It does not even have unintentional humour to recommend it as do, for example, the films of Ed Wood.Travel great distances to avoid seeing it.

LOW POINT in the careers of ALL involved!

Now, I will admit. I did go see it when it first came out, but this movie is a pure joke. Not a horror film and not a comedy either. Murphy looked ridiculous w/all that stuff on. Angela, Kadeem (who's acting is mediocre already), and Allen...you guys could do so much better.

I don't think I can say much more.

This is BLOODY brilliant

This movie has everything I like. A cool lead actor, a gorgeous female, and most importantly VAMPIRES !!!!! It is so refressing to seee Eddie Murphey in something other then 'Beverly Hills cop'. Don't get me wrong, those films are good, but they have nothing on this. Murphey steals the show as the a sedusive vampire. Altough I have to say my favourite character is the henchman, who makes the film as funy as it can be. Definatly worth a watch!!!

Good vampire flick

Vampire in Brooklyn is about a vampire named Maxmillian who searches, and finds, the half vampire female cop named Rita. She doesnt know that until she meets him one night. She becomes terrified of that fact alone. Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett deliver good performances. I liked the many characters Murphy plays. They're all funny. Unfortunately, there is another movie called Def by Temptation, which deals with men getting killed by a seducing succubus(Cynthia Bond). If I had to pick between this one and Def by Temptation, Vampire in Brooklyn would win my vote everytime. ***1/2 stars. (Paramount)

Vampire in Brooklyn

It was so sad that I couldn't play and see the DVD video here in Japan due to its area protection security...

There's Only One Woman for Him . . .

Wes Craven directed this movie starring Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. Eddie Murphy is a perfect, suave, vampire from the old country looking for his soul mate . . . the one woman in the world whose father was a vampire. There's a lot of humor and yet a lot of depth in this movie.

Not terrible but not very good either

The last surviving vampire, Maximillian, sails into New York to find a half breed female to breed with. The woman in question, Rita, doesn't know that she's a vampire. With help from his unwilling ghoul Julius, Maximillian tires to woo Rita to join him, but it is Rita's choice as to where she will spend her eternity.This ranks as one of a series of lows in Eddie Murphy's career, although it isn't terrible – just pretty poor and muddled. The plot is OK on paper but in reality it lacks focus and isn't very involving. The comedy doesn't really work and most of it isn't funny, even the characters written to be funny can barely manage to get a laugh. Also it fails to be scary. With Wes Craven and a big budget, you'd expect some scares – even if they were average ones, but no, not a thing – the `scary' scenes are just silly action scenes and there is no real horror (or tension) in this film.I like Eddie Murphy and I like his trend of playing multiple characters.
The problem is that this only works where the material is good or the film is funny (ie his `family' was the best thing about the Nutty Professor), however here his characters are not good – and his main role is ineffective and silly. I always have time for Angela Bassett as she is not only beautiful but plays good characters (anyone who saw her carry Strange Days will know what I mean), but here she has little material – but still manages to grab the attention. She acts Murphy off the screen. Hardison is not a good actor and his comedy role is not good at all, even reliable like Witherspoon and a few other familiar faces are wasted.Overall this just about passes the time – but it manages to fail in almost every area it tries to work in. Not funny and not scary and not dramatic and not romantic – watchable but really has very little going for it.

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Pretty darn good

'A Vampire in Brooklyn' is a wonderful parody of Dracula/vampire movies. Eddie Murphy is hilarious and I always enjoy Angela Bassett's performances. I'd take this over 'Blade' any day. Murphy is a vampire from the Caribbean who is trying to find his soulmate, a cop played by Bassett. She's actually half vampire but doesn't understand the feelings and instincts that Murphy's character awakens in her. It sucks as a horror film, but shines as a comedy. And if you like this, check out 'Dracula:Dead and Loving It' starring Leslie Nielsen. Or take a walk down memory lane and visit Count von Count on Sesame street(One...ah, ah ah. Two...ah, ah, ah. Three...remember?), every day on your local public television station.

Uneven Craven/Murphy collaboration still manages to entertain

I'm assuming this is supposed to be a "dark comedy." No pun intended.But ...as a comedy, there aren't any...comedic elements; as a horror movie it's too...well h3ll's bells, the whole movie is nothing but pure camp, and it's not intended to be camp which disqualifies it as "good" camp; as a love story, it seems to me that the only person Eddie Murphy is in love with is possibly Eddie Murphy; and as a drama...it just isn't.Other than that, I found the characters to be horribly stereotyped, the dialog to be lacking in imagination and reality (where reality could have been an element without hurting the wannabe "vampire" element), the acting to be of the lowest class, and the zombie element to be nothing but pure ignorance.And yet, somehow, it still manages to entertain. Don't ask me why because I can't begin to explain it, but it strikes a chord.It rates a 4.4/10 from...the Fiend :.

The funniest Vampire spoof I've ever seen!!!!!!!!

Eddie Murphy is funny in this movie but, his lackey Julius Jones (Kadeem Hardison) is even more hilarious. I didn't really take this movie all that serious but, it was fun to watch.

Neither fully a horror, a comedy nor a romance, this film lacks direction

As a comedy, this film is too serious, as a horror, it's too cheesy, and as a romance, Murphy is too busy being in love with himself. Despite all that, the film is quite enjoyable so long as you have no preconceptions. I'm glad I saw it, but I won't be watching this one again.

A horror comedy that's neither scary nor funny, a none starter really.

Vampire in Brooklyn starts as a large boat crashes into a Brooklyn dock, on-board the whole crew are discovered murdered. They were murdered by Maximillian (Eddie Murphy) a Vampire from the Caribbean who happens to be the last of his kind & needs to mate with another Vampire & the closet thing left is half Vampire half human NYPD cop Detective Rita Veder (Angela Bassett) who doesn't yet know she's half Vampire, Maximillian has to convince her she is a Vampire & then to mate with her otherwise the Vampire race will die out...Directed by Wes Craven this is a romantic comedy horror with an almost entirely black cast that doesn't really work in any respect. The script by Charles Murphy (Eddie's brother), Michael Lucker & Chris Parker quite simply is a laugh free zone, hell I didn't even crack a smile during this. The film starts off very horror orientated then it becomes very comedic before romance takes over, none of these genres particularly go well together & the film feels very uneven, I suppose it moves along at a fair pace & the basic story is alright but it's a bit of a chore to sit through as nothing on screen works that well & a constant stream of profanity is not funny on it's own, is a very lazy way to write & starts to become annoying. The scene when Murphy impersonates the preacher is just plain embarrassing & I hated the ending as well.Director Craven had never made a comedy before & it show's as the comedy scenes just don't work, the horror & gore scenes are far more effective & it's a shame there's not more of them. By the time Craven teamed up with Murphy to make this both needed a hit after their careers both hit slumps, Vampire in Brooklyn was a poor choice of film although the story does have a happy ending as Craven went on to make the mega hit teen horror slasher Scream (1996) & Murphy made the successful children's comedy The Nutty Professor (1996) as their next films respectively. Angela Bassett's stunt double Sonya Davis died went a stunt went wrong where she was supposed to fall from a building onto an airbag but she actually hit her head on the solid ground. There's some gore here, there's a ripped out heart, various dead bodies with slit throats, some blood drinking & a stake through the heart although the special make-up effects on Murphy at the end look terrible.With a supposed budget of about $14,000,000 this had a decent amount of cash thrown at it, I don't think it flopped at the box-office but it didn't do that well either. It's well made with decent production values. The acting isn't that great & surprisingly Murphy is the only one who plays it straight which is very odd, Bassett is forgettable & Kadeem Hardison as the comedy relief ghoul is terrible.Vampire in Brooklyn is a horror film that isn't scary, a comedy that isn't funny & it's got a black cast directed by a white man brought in for his name & as a whole it just doesn't work on any level. One to avoid.

Horror fans won't like this movie because it's not funny, comedy fans won't like this movie because it isn't funny, and Eddie Murphy fans (all twenty of them!) won't like this movie because Eddie Murphy has

"Vampire in Brooklyn" is about a Romanian-talking Vampire, who travels to Brooklyn, New York, in search of a half-vampire to be his bride and to continue the species of vampire with. Eddie Murphy is that vampire, fit with sharp teeth, glowing eyes and a Little Richard haircut. Murphy parades around with a forced and awful Romanian accent, trying to be funny and at the same time scary, but quite frankly it doesn't work. It's not funny, and it isn't scary, making it more of a stupid movie than anything else. The first ten minutes are clever. Watch as the film presents us with a solid opening that is both humorous and mysterious. Then watch as it soon dissipates, leaving some stupid plot about vampires hindering the film. I can only imagine how much better the film would have been if Murphy had put some more thought into the script when he co-wrote it with his real-life brother. If the entire movie was like the first five, ten minutes or so, I would recommend this film. But given that it instantly loses all originality, humor and interest, and suddenly resorts to stupid gags and darkness, I give this film a low rating. Horror fans won't like this movie because it's not funny, comedy fans won't like this movie because it isn't funny, and Eddie Murphy fans (all twenty of them!) won't like this movie because Eddie Murphy has better chances at winning the Mr. Olympia rather than convince us he is a Romanian vampire.I suspect that vampires must contain a kind of animal instinct. Murphy's vampire travels to Brooklyn in search of the last vampire to mate with, but the thought that this vampire might not be attracted to him never crosses his mind. What about courting? I guess vampires don't do that. They sleep, they drink blood, they mate, multiply, and die. This is what Murphy would like us to believe. But if this is true, then why does Murphy act like a human, walk, talk and sing like a human? Okay, he doesn't sing, it just rhymed. But this film's plot is as weak as a trampoline would be with a five-hundred-pound man bouncing on it.Okay, forgive and forget, I'll buy the idea of a vampire coming to Brookyn in search of a mate, okay, that's fine. But I won't buy the idea that Eddie Murphy is that vampire, that the vampire has a wicked streak of humor (after all, his instincts make him an animal, not one that takes himself and his surroundings lightly), and I definitely won't buy the movie.After the hour-point, the film starts getting really weird, really dark, and turns from an attempt at comedy to a serious film. Not even a horror film, but more of a religious film. Someone dies in the form of crucifixion. It is as if Murphy, realizing his script was not funny nor scary, started trying to go for symbolic religion in his film. He buried the end of his script in the ancient curses of vampires, and so on and so forth. Murphy contradicts himself so many times, and the script contradicts Murphy so many times, that the film just loses all credibility and, in the end, turns out neither funny, scary, nor entertaining. 2/5 stars -John Ulmer