Lord Of The Rings gone very bad

Rating: 5/10 (16 November 2005)

"Van Helsing" never becomes what it wanted to be. I'm guessing that was supposed to be a mix of modern-age (kind of hip, if you will) and old-school (the look of the monsters) wrapped around two of the hottest Hollywood stars and a dash of a plot. Blah, you've seen practically everything this movie has to offer in other, better movies and after the LOTR trilogy this one looks pretty cheap. A budget of 160mill wasted on bad, over used and recycled special effects, "Van Helsing" thinks that CGI redeems all its other flaws. That theoretically might have been the case had these effects been better and used much much wiser that they actually are-by the gallon! There's so much of this that it gets tedious after the first half hour, and that's 2 hours more to go!
Absolutely nothing positive comes to my mind after seeing this crap (apart from the side-kick Carl, some genuinely sarcastic and funny moments and the actor playing Dracula-he looks like he's really enjoying himself and does impressive work with his script) The two main protagonists are not even worth mentioning, Hugh just does his job and Kate plays a stereotypical Romanian-accented woman.
Bad bad bad, I would enjoy it immensely bashing it some more but I have better things to do
Recommendations: a perfect movie for study breaks. A hardcore popcorn-movie you can see 15-20 minutes of every study break and know exactly where the story left-mainly because it doesn't go far;)
Peace
P.S. to big-shot Hollywood producers-stop making such CRAP!!!