I expected not good, but never that bad

Rating: 3/10 (9 May 2004)

Might have spoilers. Van Helsing is a waste. A waste of characters, each known separately and having good stories behind them, however all of them got twisted to the point of making the spectator feel that the screenwriter is just manipulating everything behind the name of all of them. Adding insult to injury the dialogs are ridiculous, and the story even worse, I felt like watching the League of extraordinary gentlemen all over again. Also the actors in the movie were drastically wasted behind a mist of CGI and a lot of scenery. It got to the point where it seemed like a badly knit bunch of scenes where Van Helsing was tried to be made into a sort of 007 from the past even recreating the laboratory where all his gadgets are made and just took Q for a ride including him in the mission. It seemed like a bad stew of stories from past authors with a new and bad twist mixed with CGI. Just plain bad. Although Kate Beckinsdale looked beautiful but we can always get a magazine for that.