 Metacritic reports a score of 53 out of 100 from 29 reviews, considered to be mixed or average reviews.Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of a possible 4.He criticized several plot holes, such as the vampires moving with supernatural speed in some attacks but ponderous slowness in others, but also singled out Danny Huston for being "quite convincing" as the vampire leader and summed up the film as "well-made, well-photographed and plausibly acted, and is better than it needs to be."