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To call this a comedy is a sign of optimism to call it a comeback for Murphy is a sign of blind faith.Advertisement. It's darker than ',' but without sufficient purpose, and my overall memory of it is of people screaming in the shadows.

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Sure, Rita and Justice can get back together, but their relationship has been so choppy in the movie that we don't much care.Apart from these difficulties, the movie is unpleasant to look at. Since the logic of the film requires him to lose in the end, that leaves us without a hero. He woos her in a slum apartment that he has 'made over' with hexes, so that it looks elegant, but it's insulting to the Rita character to assume she'd keel over for that approach.The movie has another problem: Maximillian is the villain.He wants to sink his fangs in Rita's neck, confirm her vampire status and break up her relationship with the good cop. That a person of her age would say this might just barely have been possible when 'Blacula' was made to put it in a 1995 movie and hope for a laugh is a sign that the filmmakers are seriously out of touch.Scenes like this coexist uneasily with the budding romance between Maximillian and Rita, which is played more or less straight.The movie assumes that Rita, a no-nonsense cop with street smarts, would fall instantly for the vampire, who dresses and behaves like a pimp and sends his stretch limousine to pick her up - an ominous sign. Al Sharpton and preaches a sermon based on the notion, 'Evil is good.' If the scene had been pointed satire, I might have understood it as it is, it simply mocks the preacher as an ignorant buffoon.The movie is an equal opportunity offender ex-model turns up as a white woman who, attacked by the vampire, assures him, 'I understand the Negro people.' 'Vampire in Brooklyn' contains scenes that I think are supposed to be funny, including one in which Maximillian assumes the external form of a fraudulent African-American preacher who looks a lot like the Rev. Soon they are involved in an impenetrable plot involving Maximillian and his ghoul, who is inconvenienced by body parts that keep falling off.Advertisement. (The wide-eyed night watchman with the trembling flashlight just barely avoids saying 'Feets, do yo' stuff!' ) Then we meet Rita and her partner Justice, who is in love with her, although she seems to be somehow on a different wavelength. (Can you imagine their Lamaze classes? ) Maximillian's arrival in New York is accomplished in a scene of such broad racial stereotyping that Amos 'n' Andy would have handled it more tactfully.

But something gets off and the killing continues on land. A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. With Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison.

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This goes against conventional vampire lore, in which vampires live forever and are quite happy to be alone, but never mind: He journeys to New York to find Rita, an NYPD detective whose late mother was an expert on Caribbean superstitions.ДЄpparently the mother had a child fathered by a vampire. At one point early in 'Vampire in Brooklyn,' the vampire's victim says, 'Don't be pulling that old Blacula -on me.' If only he had been! 'Blacula' (1972), actually one of the better movies from the blaxploitation period, was miles better than this disorganized mess., whose career is seriously in need of reviving, should have thought twice before entrusting it to an amateur-night screenplay stapled together from a story by himself and his brothers.The story: Maximillian (Murphy) is the last of a race of vampires who fled to the Caribbean from the Nosferatu-haters of Europe.

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