Noaptea lui Vlad

There's not a lot to be said about this movie except that it's a blatant ripoff of Shawn Levy's "Night at the Museum".

The best thing that can be said about the movie is that there's no Ben Stiller in it but at the same time there's nothing bringing the charm and energy of Robin Williams either.

It has a sweeter premise given that it's a boy's birthday rather than a washed up security guard at its core but whether that helps or hinders the lack of originality and total lack of energy of various performance is anyone's guess.

It definitely wasn't my cup of tea at the cinema and I surely can't recommend it to anyone.

I saw this with the wish of showing it to my kids, now of age to understand the idea of history, and which deeply believe in the idea of Romanian culture.

But what I found is not even subject to line the garbage bin of history, it utter trash, an invention using names from history, some semblance of facts, but the historical models served here, come into the communist fallacy of Romanian history, both plastic production, and a simplification of the realities.

There are no facts here, just an agitprop agenda on how to create figure heads for a Romanian history, even before the term Romania meant current Romania, rather at the time standing for what is today Byzantine empire, mostly Greek speaking, but believing to be Romans.

Enough about the plot. The characters are just 2D, to deliver punchlines and disappear, the dialogues are poor, the language is current Romanian (not historical), to the point that almost everything comes across as farcical.

I strongly recommend skipping over.