Movie review
July 30, 2025 · 130 min · R · French
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Dracula 2025 is Luc Besson’s gothic romance take on the vampire legend. 15th-century Prince Vlad loses his bride in battle, renounces God, becomes immortal Dracula, then spends 400 years hunting her reincarnation—finding her as Mina in 1889 Paris. It’s all tragic love, blood-drinking montages, gargoyle sidekicks, and a redemptive ending where he chooses sacrifice over damnation. Zero modern lectures, zero identity politics, zero forced anything—just straight-up old-school monster romance in period clothes.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Dracula.
Woke representation / casting
Period-accurate European historical cast; no emphasis, swaps, or marketing around identity.
Woke political dialogue
None modern; classic faith/damnation tropes from lore, resolved religiously.
Identity-driven story themes
Pure heterosexual tragic romance and grief; no race, gender, or activist framing.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Renounces God/church in grief (straight from legend), but film ends in redemptive sacrifice per reviews.
Woke character or canon changes
Adds reincarnation focus (echoes Coppola 1992, not original Stoker); not discussed as ideological or identity-driven.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Complete absence of anti-woke backlash; zero relevant complaints found.
Creator track record context
Besson’s style is visual excess and empowered women in past action films, but nothing activist or SJW here or in pattern.
Production
