A CGI-laden Tribute To Monster Films

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2014)

Van Helsing stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale.It is a film that tells the story of the greatest hunter Gabriel Van Helsing,who is assigned an enormously difficult task of tracking down three monsters that he has yet to encounter in his hunting career.Added to that cast are Richard Roxburgh,David Wenham,Will Kemp,Kevin J. O'Connor and Shuler Hensley. This was directed by Stephen Sommers,who made it as a tribute to the monster films of the 30's and 40's.
Anna Valerious calls upon Gabriel Van Helsing,a monster hunter to go to Transylvania to bring down supernatural beings that her family has been fight against for many generations now throughout the decades.They happen to be Count Dracula,a creature named Igor and a hideous monster that is misguided by Dr.Frankenstein.Adding to the trouble is Anna's brother who has turned into a bloodthirsty wolf at full moon.
As mentioned above,this is a tribute to monster films by Sommers.That is why the clichés of archetype horror/monster films that was done in the past was maximized in it.Added to that,it was consists of great production values as well as it has a lot of CGI- laden special effects scenes that the viewer will be more entertained or better yet feel overloaded by it that the characters and the story has been minimized to a lesser degree.As for the action scenes,it can also become too long and tiring that one who watches it would feel unleashed from the film after watching it.