Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 208
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 161
A hollow creature feature that suffers from CGI overload.
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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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
May 7, 2004 Wide
Oct 19, 2004
$120.0M
Universal Pictures
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!'
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.
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.
This is one of the dopiest movies of the year.
The orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.
A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.
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.
This is one vampire movie with bite.
Van Helsing violates the first rule of fantasy filmmaking - it takes a relatively intriguing premise and pisses it away early and often.
In a blood-thirsty, dead-three-centuries sort of way, it's perfectly charming.
An overamped action movie in which the legendary monsters are interchangeable with any other brutish CGI beasts.
Like the three monsters at the center of the film, Van Helsing is a howling dog, it needs a brain, and indeed, it bites.
Writer and director Stephen Sommers is less interested in developing the characters and more interested in smashing them into things.
Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale massive slaughter of bad guys. Yeah i like it.
March 21, 2007Super Reviewer
CGI overload and a story that's been done before better. However there is a good performance by the leads and the creatures aren't so bad either. Still the story let's Van Helsing down. It was alright but it could have been so much more.
October 30, 2011
Super Reviewer
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