Dracula Untold
As a boy, future prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes (Luke Evans), was sent to appease the Turkish sultan and serve in the Turkish army. Years later he would return to his homeland and claim the throne. As an adult Vlad would fight against the Sultan, Mehmed (Dominic Cooper), and the Turk’s wishes to advance into Europe. Known for his barbaric and unparalleled wrath, slowly impaling thousands upon thousands of enemies upon stakes, Vlad took on the moniker Vlad the Impaler. Challenged by the Sultan feeling particularly greedy it would take a much higher (or lower) power to even the score and protect his beloved land of Wallachia along with his wife and son (Sarah Gadon, Art Parkinson). This is the story of How Vlad the Impaler became the vampire legend Vlad Dracul. 
Very loosely following actual historical events, this fictional tale of one of history’s bloodiest leaders and cinema’s greatest monsters gains a marginal bit of traction just in time for Halloween. Not so much about scares and spooks, Dracula Untold plays out more in the action/fantasy realm of a lesser Lord of The Rings, but with more confused dialects than you can shake a stick at, cause yeah, it is fiction. However, if you can let go of the general ridiculousness and just go with it, this 92 minute alternate history does about what you’d expect, delivering big CGI bat battles, but feels about 180 minutes, which is good and bad. Not overly offensive nor terribly impressive this offering from Director Gary Shore, gets marks for effort, but not so much for freshness. Maybe a matinee, but really more of a rental, Dracula Untold is rated PG-13.