Dracula Untold (2014)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 33%, but audiences disagreed.

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula. Wikipedia ↗

Dracula Untold is a 2014 American dark fantasy action horror directed by Gary Shore. Luke Evans stars as Vlad Dracula, the historical prince of Wallachia who, facing an impossible demand from the Ottoman Empire to surrender 1,000 boys including his own son as child soldiers, makes a desperate bargain with an ancient vampire dwelling in a mountain cave to gain supernatural powers for three days — enough to defeat the Turkish army. If Vlad can resist drinking human blood for those three days, the powers will fade; if he succumbs, he becomes a vampire permanently.

The film attempted to humanize Dracula as a tragic hero whose monstrous transformation was motivated by fatherly love and patriotic duty. Luke Evans brought genuine anguish and physicality to Vlad's transformation. Dracula Untold earned $217 million worldwide on a $70 million budget and was originally intended to launch Universal's Dark Universe shared monster franchise, though those plans were later restructured.