Vampire in Brooklyn Reviews

This is reverse racism of the worst kind, a film where all the white people are the bad guys and the black people are the good guys. How come racially-biased films like this are "politically correct" even though they reek of prejudice? All the white people are killed, too. Does make things better? Does that help race relations?

Add to that bigotry and very boring love story between Murphy and Angela Bassett and you have a film that was very disappointing. Murphy is a funny guy and someone whose films I usually enjoy....but this was ridiculous. This was a movie that didn't really know what it wanted to be: comedy, romance or horror. A good mixture would have acceptable but none of the categories were represented well here.

As other people point out, this started off strong but quickly lost itself and was a mess from that point. Where was the direction of this film? This was a real low in Murphy's career, which did plummet until recently. The once-box office star seems to have made a comeback, almost like rising from the dead. In that case, maybe NOW he should have played the vampire!

I have never seen this one. I figured I should go ahead and give it a shot. I find it crazy that a Wes Craven movie has such a low rating (besides Cursed anyways). The cast itself is pretty good. It's crazy that Eddie Murphy wrote some of this one. Is it maybe not considered good because Charles Murphy wrote some of this!? He wrote some of Norbit and you saw how that turned out. This is the only credit Vernon Lynch has ever had. Michael Lucker is mostly known for writing kids cartoon films that aren't all that great. Chris Parker worked on Mulan II with him. He also did Heaven is for Real and Battle of the Year both of which I actually loved. The lore is definitely intriguing although a slight bit silly. I see dead people everywhere. Ah so he is one of those kind of vampires. Thank goodness it goes against the typical film like these. I was wondering why she was so hardcore about the snoring haha. Wait he can heal his clothes as well? That guy had better luck in Nightmare on Elm Street. I think the make up effects are actually not too bad. Oh damn that was messed up, but it was also kind of funny. Those are definitely not the kind of roaches out there. This is definitely pretty goofy. That would have been too easy. She is a terrible roommate, but she is damn attractive. Ah they threw in Eddie Murphy taking on makeup effects as usual. This is the weirdest sermon, but then again it kind of proves that a lot of people don't listen to the actual words. Allen Payne is so underrated. If you didn't know that was Eddie Murphy then you wouldn't even guess. He pulls off that accent so well. How convenient that she picks red and black. You know I have to wonder how I would feel about getting bit like that. That last confrontation was probably some of the best stuff in the whole movie. The ending was different than I expected and actually kind of cool. So all in all it's not a great or particularly good movie. It's watchable and has it's moments though. I wouldn't watch it again though.

You know, if they would have chosen a path – dark comedy or serious vampire story – and stuck with it instead of merging the two into this hodge-podge unsettled mess we could have had something here. But the behind the scenes politics of filmmaking lead to a less than stellar product. Ain’t that always the way it goes down?

Eddie Murphy, the poster boy for lazy choices and easy money, was once viewed as a daringly original and edgy comedian. One didn’t know where his comedy would lead us, and frequently it led to projects like Raw or his time on SNL. Classic stuff, but then the 80s started to come to a close and Murphy decided that he was only interested in being a likable and bankable movie star and didn’t feel like putting in much time or effort to make a worthy project. Any goodwill attached to his name is all but gone, and Vampire in Brooklyn can be looked back on as the beginning of the end.

Vampire in Brooklyn was the last film required for Eddie Murphy to fulfill his contract with Paramount. And this clearly shows, instead of rising to the challenge and playing the character correctly, you can see the concessions that Wes Craven made to his star. Once more we have Murphy in layers upon layers of prosthetics in order to briefly appear as an ethnic comedic stereotype, this time an Italian gangster. This character offers nothing to the film at large but the distracting appearance of Murphy in wax-like non-emotive makeup. Even better are all of the scenes that should be played as vulnerable, scary, romantic or any other number of emotions that Murphy derails by insisting on trying to make them funny.

Look, a satirical take on Blacula doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Hell, a vague remake in which it’s brought up to modern times (or then modern times as this film is from 1995), not the worst thing I’ve ever heard if you do it properly and make it funny enough. The problem is, Brooklyn was clearly meant to be a scarier film. A spinoff of the tropes and themes in Dracula, but set in the inner city urban community with vague allusions to voodoo and a person being two halves of the same being. This two halves line is brought up in the beginning but quickly goes nowhere despite some interesting nightmare sequences and a heavy importance placed upon in the earliest parts of the film. It’s a shame that it becomes dropped – whatever happened with the body of the “other”? Why bring up all of these hints and teases about her mother’s work in Jamaica and having a previous familiarity with other characters and voodoo magic if it’s not going to build to anything?

Well, at least Angela Bassett looks gorgeous and has an appealing chemistry with both of her leading men. She’s trying really hard to create a believable character and ground her work in this film, but the numerous screenwriters clearly didn’t have a clear sense of purpose of what they were trying to achieve. If it was too be funny, then the movie is too dark and horrific, if it was to be scary then the movie is filled with too many scenes of abrasive characters mugging for camera time. It’s not a bad concept, either version of the film, but it lacks a distinct purpose so it’s left to drift into the ether forever.

Maybe is not the best in the Eddie Murphy career
but i found it very funny in several scenes
the one in particular when he must talk in church forced by one person (he choose Eddie like a substitute of the usual priest) the bad is necessary ! lol and after he finish to talk he send to hell people that listen him in street while they singing the bad is good, that's was funny.
also Eddie chauffeur that while he clean the limo one of his hands broke and he tries to put on it again .
in general is good to watch .