The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Not woke

Clemens is the only thing woke, pointless token main character, especially for the location and times.

We wuz scholars and van hellsing

Ultra woke movie. The one black Oxford doctor ends up on a ship and him and some random female team up to give Dracula a double dose of diversity, and a single shot of girl power. Its a disaster of a movie and woke to its core.

A black guy in that time-period, well dressed in clean clothes, highly educated, friendly, compassionate, hardworking, heroic, intelligent deep thinker etc... Totally superhuman in every way compared to any white character. Second place is obviously for the superhuman smart female with more courage than the rest of the hardened male crew combined.
The story itself is bearable but ruined by the lead characters.

Coulda been so much better

Premise is great: What really happened in that lightly roughed in chapter of log entries from Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?

Instead of doing a solid job of exploring the concept - think Dan Simmons' period-perfect envisioning of the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1849, in 'The Terror' - what you get instead is yet another half-baked "re-imagining" of the material. It's a brittle house of cards built on characters that not only don't exist in the book, but are wildly out of place in the setting - a merchant ship at sea - and period of English history. Just weak wish-fulfillment. Meh.

Very Woke but Enjoyable if You Can Get Past That

As others have noted the token well spoken, educated, well dressed black character is completely out of place for the time period. There is a woe is me racism speech from the same character. The female character is also very much a 'girl power' unrealistic character for the time. The acting and story are good with a very creepy and disturbing atmosphere. FX are also pretty good. If you can look past the issues it is very watchable but be aware it is very woke.

Mid Film Made Worse

Just watched it on Amazon Prime.
I was very disappointed to see that almost all my predictions about it came true based on what I know woke writers would write.

The protagonist is the typical charismatic educated and heroic young black male. The film makes sure to remind us of his blackness quite often, with him mentioning how all the racist institutions just wouldn't accept him and his wisdom, mostly due to their whiteness. He only has shortcomings when interacting with the female lead, Anna, who is dynamic, strong and independent (despite practically being dracula's thermos).

The rest of the crew miss no chances to be sexist, racist or religious (which seems to be regarded as a fatal flaw right next to the other two), except for the old kindhearted russian guy and sir Davos Seaworth who ends up being the benevolent, but ultimately dumb and ineffective captain of the ship. There is also a very christian asian cook who actually makes the smart decision to f@ck off on a boat. He is killed with extreme scrutiny by a teleporting dracula.

To be fair, even if you ignore the woke elements the film is plain bad. The CGI is barely passable, dracula's design is pretty much indifferent, the innocent starry-eyed boy's acting made me want to slap him every time he opened his mouth. Dracula can somehow teleport where he needs to be for the kills (and not in the "wow, how did he do that?" way but in the "oh f@ck off" way, at one point teleporting into a tightly locked room with no other entrances, and with armed humans literally standing on the single door it had.

My favorite (read: worst) part was when the black guy at the end started shouting off to Dracula about how he wants to be seen as God but he is in fact a lowly cowardly creature, etc. etc. It comes out of nowhere, and the entire time I was just imagining dracula scratching his bald head in confusion. The final battle of the movie is centered around sinking the ship before it reaches shore, trapping dracula inside. There is only one problem with that: THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT HE CAN FLY. They can literally see the shore, and it is almost swimmable distance, and absolutely no one addresses it.

The end is equally idiotic (in a very distracting manner), with the black guy somehow having decided that he is a vampire hunter now and dracula's nemesis, and chasing after him in the streets of London. Dracula ~for some f@cking reason when he is surrounded by fast food~ decides to prank him in a pub, and the black guy interprets this as dracula being afraid and chasing after him, when the monster is pretty much superhuman. The movie can't make up its mind about dracula being a xenomorph/animal kind of villain (a LOT of scenes are ripped off Alien with a touch of Titanic, and neither inspirations do this film any favors), or a conniving mastermind, so the entire time you are just confused by his behavior.

Look, I have a lot more to say, specific criticisms about why various scenes make zero sense even without the (very distracting) woke idiocy, but I'll just sum it up with this: It's bad.