I agree with MB that the program had a good visual style, and the music helped create tension. The castle on the hill, though, immediately reminded me of the fake model "Collinwood" used in the opening credits of the 1991 DS revival series.
I'm glad I was forewarned that this wasn't a close adaptation of the novel. As a new interpretation, it had some good moments and interesting backstory to some of the characters.
Overall, I didn't care much for the way Dracula was portrayed. He was very creepy at the beginning, something along the lines of "Nosferatu," rather than following Stoker's descriptions. I thought both the early scenes and the youthful Dracula might have owed something to the Coppola version (in my view, the worst version). They also seemed to borrow the twisted idea from that movie that staking Lucy was a substitute for having sex with her.
I managed to miss the sex scene between Dracula and Lucy so will have to watch my tape of it sometime.
The part about the occult worshippers owed its inspiration to one of the Christopher Lee/Hammer "Dracula" movies, I forget which one.
The movie really lost me the first time Dracula ripped off someone's head, and I was hoping it wouldn't happen again, but it did. That seemed more like something a horror movie monster would do, not Stoker's warrior count.
And I actually thought the last scene with the aged Dracula hiding among the street people was kind of lame.
Nevertheless, as a stand-alone movie, I enjoyed it over all, but I wouldn't rate it as a good version of the novel. I wish they would have given it some other title than "Dracula," which was so misleading. And the trailer had the best scenes.