Van Helsing (2004)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 211
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 164
A hollow creature feature that suffers from CGI overload.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 33
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
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Cast
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Hugh Jackman
Gabriel Van Helsing -
Kate Beckinsale
Anna Valerious -
Richard Roxburgh
Count Vladislaus Dracul... -
David Wenham
Carl -
Shuler Hensley
Frankenstein's Monster -
Elena Anaya
Aleera -
Will Kemp
Velkan Valerious/Wolf M... -
Kevin J. O'Connor
Igor -
Alun Armstrong
Cardinal Jinette -
Silvia Colloca
Verona -
Josie Maran
Marishka -
Tom Fisher
Top Hat -
Samuel West
Dr. Victor Frankenstein -
Robbie Coltrane
Mr. Hyde -
Marek Vasut
Villager -
Martin Klebba
Dwerger -
Stephen H. Fisher
Dr. Jekyll -
Dana Moravkova
Barmaid -
Zuzana Durdinova
Opera Singer -
Jaroslav Vizner
Gendarme -
Samantha Sommers
Vampire Child -
Dorel Mois
Dracula's Ball Performe... -
Marianna Mois
Dracula's Ball Performe... -
Laurence Racine
Dracula's Ball Performe... -
Patrice Wojciechowski
Dracula's Ball Performe... -
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All Critics (218) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (164) | 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.
A special effects-laden piece of trash...
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.
... even in the name of high adventure, the end result was just too silly and unbelievable to accept or enjoy.
The plotting is dull and ... the action scenes quickly grow tiresome.
Silly, preposterous, poorly directed and badly acted.
If you were raised on action-packed computer games, this movie is from Sega heaven.
Too bad [Stephen Sommers'] complete lack of restraint turned this at-first-promising flick into a jarring and prolonged audio-visual wank fest.
allows for the digital manipulation of virtually everything on screen, turning the movie into a frenetic, attention-deficit cartoon that still manages to look kinda cheap
'Si quiere verla, mejor espérese a que salga en DVD...y aún así creo de debería pensarlo.'
Stephen Sommers delivers stale effect-movie action, outdoing even his own worst efforts.
With Sommers' work it's hard to know where the fan stops and the director starts.
Much like the horror films the characters represent, "Van Helsing" is a movie that's more about the ambiance and setting than the quality of the achievement.
Not every summer blockbuster needs to be a classic, so Van Helsing [shout it out!] gets a decent grade for goofy, ghoulish fun.
Writer-director Stephen Sommers...gets so caught up in high-pitched, breakneck action that he loses sight of what makes a good vampire story.
Audience Reviews for Van Helsing
Super Reviewer
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- Anna Valerious: What do you want?
- Frankenstein's Monster: To exist.
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- Igor: Hahaha! You think you can get Igor. Igor get you!
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- Gabriel Van Helsing: [shoves Igor to a wall] You will take these two to Dracula's lair.
- Igor: No, I won't.
- Gabriel Van Helsing: [threatens Igor]
- Igor: Yes, I will...
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- Count Vladislaus Dracula: Don't we make a lovely couple?
- Anna Valerious: Oh my God...
- Count Vladislaus Dracula: I am looking for a new bride Anna. Someone strong and beautiful.
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- Dr. Jekyll: My turn!
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- Marishka: Too bad. So sad.
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