Appropriately, this sucks!

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2005)

It just goes to show that not even the superb acting talents of Gary Oldman can lift a film with both Keenu Reeves (miscast and phoning it in anyway) and Winona Ryder (just plain awful). What promised to be a great adventure with some good effects and enough horror to satisfy Vlad himself, soon turned into a crapulent snooze fest. Coppola, who can deliver great films (Apocalypse Now and The Godfather), proves he can stuff it up with the best of them (although Godfather III may have been enough proof of that anyway.) To find some positives in this mess is not easy, but one thing can be said: It leaves Van Helsing for dead (no pun intended).