“Renfield” has fine, crafty actors in its corner, writes critic phillipstribune. The reliable Nicolas Cage, a guy who always gives 110%, is in there, sprinkling delightful expressions of enthusiasm (“wooo!”) under his Dracula breath.
heartwarming one minute, entrails the next
“Renfield” brings these two to New Orleans, where the filmmaking tax incentives are irresistible. The script has a lot — far too much — to do with a powerful crime family’s manipulation of the cocaine market, along with most of the police department. Awkwafina plays an upright holdout against this corruption, whose father was killed by the criminal scum, and whose sister works for the FBI.
Clearly, there’s an appetite for evisceration with a side of snark. Both “Violent Night” and “Cocaine Bear” did pretty well in theaters, at a precarious time for theaters in general. And “Renfield” — which is, at least, a somewhat novel way of reintroducing audiences to a chunk of underexploited IP in the Universal monsterverse — has the added advantage of three ringers at its performance apex. Also there’s Shohreh Aghdashloo purring her way through the cardboard part of the mob matriarch.
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