Journalist Christian Slater interviews vampire Brad Pitt about his life of two hundred years or more, in which he is vampired by Tom Cruise and recruits little Kirsten Dunst (a remarkably assured performance) to join their gang. After about an hour of chomping in New Orleans we rather lost the will to live, despite mainly wonderful imagery from Philippe Rousselot (particularly good in fire scenes, though having a tendency to overlight some of the night stuff) and fabulous editing from Mick Audsley and his partner Joke van Wijk.
It's difficult to know how to take this - is it supposed to be funny ("She slept in my coffin at first")? Certainly seems rather camp. Can't really get interested about vampire things any more. After an hour, Banderas was in, Cruise was out, and so were we.
Anne Rice adapted her own novel. We missed Helen McCrory as '2nd whore'.
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