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Netflix is home to an ever-changing rotation of great legacy movies, but one of the best may be “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” a Gothic horror masterpiece and one of the\u00a0best vampire movies ever made<\/a>. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and, yes, Keanu Reeves, the 1992 film doesn’t exactly adhere to the structure of Stoker’s 1897 novel, weaving in a plot about Mina Harker (Ryder) as the reincarnation of Dracula’s long-dead wife Elisabeta. But its sets, costumes, props, and even its acting are all opulent \u2014 after all, two of the best English actors of all time, Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, star as Dracula and Abraham Van Helsing, respectively.<\/p>\n Even though he is perhaps the most marketable member of the cast now, at the time Keanu Reeves was by far the weakest link in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Reeves was clearly out of his depth as prim Englishman Jonathan Harker. Total Film<\/a> observed, “You can visibly see Keanu attempting not to end every one of his lines with ‘dude.’ The result? A performance that looks like the young actor’s perpetually constipated.” Similarly,\u00a0AskMen<\/a> wrote, “It’s one thing to cast Keanu Reeves as an esteemed British lawyer, but it’s quite another to ask him to act alongside Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. The two Oscar nominees ran circles around the poor Canuck, exposing his lack of range, shoddy accent and abysmal instincts for all to see.”<\/p>\n