One of any year's worst

Rating: 3/10 (15 February 2005)

As if the craven and borderline blasphemous pre-release marketing of this film weren't enoughshameless piggybacking aboard the miraculous Universal Monsters Legacy DVD set, which impudently presupposes the superiority of our modern technological strides; you can almost hear Sommers: "if you thought that was cool"Van Helsing proves that sometimes you can judge a movie by its sh!t-stained cover. A collection of images that move, look and feel computer generated, the plot, or what there is of it, seems motivated only by the ephemeral thrill of creating pretty grotesquerie. In its widely incomprehensible visualization, it serves up the basest of thrills and it does almost nothing to comment on or even penetrate a subject rife for meta-commentary. Please don't give these people any of your money.