“Renfield,” the new vampire comedy starring Nicolas Cage, is bouncy, clever, and idiosyncratic, but its virtues seem inseparable from its over-all inertness and triviality.
It’s a strange feeling to watch a movie made by manifestly talented people on both sides of the camera—people who have done their work thoughtfully, and have even flung themselves into it vigorously—but realize that the film doesn’t catch the spark of life. That’s what happens with “Renfield,” the new vampire comedy directed by Chris McKay, and it’s all the more disheartening because the movie is not an unpleasant one to watch.
Until he dares to do so, he’s stuck in the body-trafficking business, and he gets caught up in a battle between drug dealers—which he ends with a literally decapitating punch. As a result, Renfield soon finds himself facing off against a young gangster named Teddy Lobo , the ne’er-do-well scion of the city’s main crime family, which has a tentacular grip on the police department.
The colonization of commercial movies by the superhero genre and its effects-driven action is manifested in the all-too-convenient superpowers with which Renfield is endowed. Having left the dark side for the realm of virtue, Renfield beheads and mutilates and explodes bad guys, using detached limbs as weapons and unleashing champagne-like spews of blood in pursuit of liberty and justice—and of penance and redemption for his century-plus of misdeeds as Dracula’s enabler.
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