I really enjoyed the movie. It's probably the best "B-action" movie I've seen lately.
I especially love the ending. There's no was the producers of this movie didn't not play Lords of Shadow or get any influence from it.
Speaking of, Luke Evans wouldn't make a bad Gabriel and Charles Dance would make a FANTASTIC Zobek.
I agree with all of that. That end scene really sealed it, Dance *was* Zobek through and through during that end scene.
It wil definitely be interesting to see how the reboot of the Universal Monsters franchise goes, following this. It would be amusing if they did go for the twist and make Ingeras (Drac's son) turn out to be 'Count Alucard' (Drac in disguise in Son of Dracula.
It's also just struck me that a certain scene with Vlad and Mirena reminded me a bit of Gabriel and Marie's reunion in LoS2. Plus, there was the bit where Vlad yelling Mirena's name did sound oddly enough like him yelling 'Marie'. Just think about it as well, Mirena is closer to Marie than it is to say, Ilona (the name of Vlad III's second wife), or Elizabeta (which pops up occassionally as a name possibility for his first wife, the one who fell from Poenari into the Arges). Vlad's castle looked quite Castlevania-y in some shots as well.