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Van Helsing (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 208
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 161

A hollow creature feature that suffers from CGI overload.

16

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 32

A hollow creature feature that suffers from CGI overload.

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Movie Info

The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature; Van Helsing's work has not always made him friends, and a false accusation of murder still trails him. But when he's summoned to Transylvania at the behest of Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), whose family has been fighting

PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror

Stephen Sommers

Oct 19, 2004

$120.0M

Universal Pictures

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All Critics (216) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (166) | DVD (48)

The horror flick, at its height, was a lyrical caressing of our fears; by the end of this nonsense, you fear for the well-being of the genre. 'It's dead!'

August 1, 2004 Comment
New Yorker
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It's empty calories: There isn't a single nourishing, non-synthetic sequence in the entire movie. Not a scene. Not a line. Not a look.

June 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
Slate
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This moronic abomination is not a movie. It's just a noisy, nasty and repulsive video game-slash- theme-park haunted-house ride designed to appeal to the offspring of warlocks and trolls.

May 20, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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This is one of the dopiest movies of the year.

May 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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The orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.

May 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.

May 7, 2004 Comment
Washington Post
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The already-lousy House of Frankenstein as done up by a filmmaker whose idea of style is to make things as loud and busy as possible... A screaming, noisy, overedited mess of a movie.

May 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

This is one vampire movie with bite.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

Van Helsing violates the first rule of fantasy filmmaking - it takes a relatively intriguing premise and pisses it away early and often.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

In a blood-thirsty, dead-three-centuries sort of way, it's perfectly charming.

August 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comments (3)
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

An overamped action movie in which the legendary monsters are interchangeable with any other brutish CGI beasts.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Like the three monsters at the center of the film, Van Helsing is a howling dog, it needs a brain, and indeed, it bites.

November 10, 2006 Comment

Writer and director Stephen Sommers is less interested in developing the characters and more interested in smashing them into things.

July 25, 2005 Full Review Source: www.kcactive.com | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale massive slaughter of bad guys. Yeah i like it.

March 21, 2007
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

CGI overload and a boring story that's been done before. However there is a good performance by Hugh Jackman and the creatures aren't so bad either. Still the story let's Van Helsing down.

October 30, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

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