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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.

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

PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror

Directed By: Stephen Sommers

Written By: Stephen Sommers

In Theaters: May 7, 2004 Wide

On DVD: Oct 19, 2004

Box Office:$120.0M

Universal Pictures

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Cast

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...
Will Kempe

Critic Reviews for Van Helsing

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

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

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

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David Edelstein

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

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Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

This is one of the dopiest movies of the year.

May 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.

May 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Ed Park

Village Voice

Top Critic

A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.

May 7, 2004 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

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

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

This is one vampire movie with bite.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

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

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Bill Gibron

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)

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Christopher Smith

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

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Rob Gonsalves

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

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today Source: Christianity Today

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

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Uri Lessing

www.kcactive.com Source: www.kcactive.com

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

March 21, 2007

John Manard

Super 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

Directors Cat

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1. Dr. Jekyll: My turn!
– Submitted by I Am The Vast UNIVERSE I (10 months ago)
1. Marishka: Too bad. So sad.
– Submitted by Stanislava S (11 months ago)

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