After watching the four episodes, these are the points I want to raise (maybe have been raised before, but what the heck)
1) The first episode: ugh. Hated it. The other episodes were much better IMHO, but I consider the first episode the most half-assed introduction to the story ever. Let's talk about Lisa:
-In a paraphrase to Boromir, You can't just WALK into Dracula's castle! What the heck. Couldn't they think of a better story for how Dracula and Lisa meet each other? Lisa just fearlessly traveling there alone makes no sense.
-Oh, I'm going to disregard the forest of corpses by the entrance to Drac's castle because he's probably not really a bad guy, just misunderstood. Evil vampire overlord? No, he's just misunderstood!
-Dracula is a master of science? What? I thought he's a master of black magic. But I'll disregard that.
-The church is evil and dumb and they burn Lisa just for befriending Dracula, ignoring all his warning. Well, okay. Could you make the church a little less evil, though? I mean, that's almost a cliche.
2) Too much gore and profanity. I mean, I could ignore the gore (though I really do think you can make a good Castlevania film with minimal gore.) And the series has A LOT of gore, which is unnecessary, since CV is supposed to be all about the action. You could easily make a PG-13 CV film that would still be very good IMHO
But the profanity, ugh! Come on. Turn down the profanity, please! Do I really need to hear dialogue about ****ing goats in a castlevania film? Cringe is all I can say.
3) Other than that, I thought other parts were reasonable. The "Speaker" lore is quite interesting, while maybe too long. Action is good. I liked the action.
6.5/10
(7.5/10 if I disregard the first episode)