This is no Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2004)

Why does Stephen Sommers horror movies keep getting compared to Raiders of the Lost Ark in promos? They did it for The Mummy (1999), and they're doing it with Van Helsing. Raiders of the Lost Ark was a lot more realistic, better scripted, and better acted than this.
If you want campy performances, a whole lot of CG (some good and some fakey) and a horror movie that isn't scary, this is for you.
This movie has more in common with League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Or Wild Wild West.
The Monster Rallies of the mid 1940s were better done than this.
The one good thing about this movie is that it made Universal rerelease the classic monster movies.