Review – Interview with the Vampire

I read somewhere that Anne Rice really hated the choice of Tom Cruise to play her precious Vampire Lestat. Personally, I thought he did a fine job as the sort of sarcastic glamour boy that I remembered from the book. Cruise also gets some fine, intense young actor support from Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas. Casting aside, however, Rice fans should enjoy the excessive goth trappings and moody vampire goings-on. Personally, all the morose sex and death stuff started to creep me out when the plot added a pre-teen participant, ably played by Kirsten Dunst in her first big screen role. On the other hand, it did have some good camerawork and interesting editing. Mildly amusing