Waste of time and money

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2004)

Being someone who likes to make up his own mind... being someone who frequently doesn't agree with others about films (for example: I think The Matrix to be the most overrated movie since Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902)... I really had to see this myself. The use of colors and dim light effects... hmmm I like them.
But then I've seen the movie... Good lord! The horror! The pain! The agony!!! What did they do? How can you ever be able to turn such a potential idea in such a mess? I cannot imagine how anyone can think that this thing is valuable in any way. There was no acting, not even bad one. The action scenes are really over the top (I just say: swashbuckling at the bridge). The characters are as deep as the water level in the "see of silence" on the moon. The humour was as funny as tickling yourself with a fondue fork.
The story was a big balloon: nothing with a bit of colourful plastic surrounding that very nothing. The end was as predictable as the ending of Troy, but Troy is a classic epic. Everybody knows it. Fortunately, not everybody knows "Van Helsing" though... and that's a good thing. The only two good points about the flick are the music and the -spoiler- not so happy end.
I won't even buy this movie if it would be released at the price of 1.00 A complete waste of time and money and a complete waste of time that I even considered posting this here, but maybe I might save other people from this disaster.