So bad its comically sound

Rating: 1/10 (6 May 2004)

I liked the Mummy, I thought it was an entertaining movie. I hated The Mummy Returns with a passion but that looks like one of the greatest movies of all time compared to Van Helsing.
Not only does this movie have a script that appears to have been thrown together by drawing words out of a hat, Stephen Sommers also appears to have drawn movie cliche's out of a hat and thrown them into his film wherever he gets the chance! This movie is really that bad that I was in stitches laughing. Kate Beckinsale is her usually awful self, Hugh Jackman does all he can with the stupid script and "that guy who plays Dracula" has a good look, but cannot pull off a Romanian Accent.
With Dracula being perhaps the coolest bad guy in movie history, why can nobody ever produce a good film involving him? If you found Underworld to be entertaining or even good, God help you, then this movie is for you. However if you have seen more than a few films, you will realise how incredibly cheesy and stupid this film is. All it needed was the Stars and Stripes at the end to round it off as being Van Cliche.