Had so Much More Potential,

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2014)

Van Helsing is a mediocre movie with a decent storyline and a good cast.The movie is certainly a disappointed,a Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman in the title role immediately sounds like a great new franchise,but unfortunately so many aspects of this movie were done wrong.I felt like the writers just tried to throw in any famous horror characters they could think of,from Dracula,Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein,it would have been so much better if it just focused on Dracula,and certainly would have been better without that ridiculous werewolf side story.The CGI in this film is very unrealistic,you could tell these characters were animated and it didn't feel like they were communicating with the real actors at all.Also the humour isn't very subtle in this movie,I also appreciate a bit of comedy in an action movie but it was too common in this and was rarely genuinely funny,the character of Carl was definitely only there for comic relief,but I didn't laugh at a single thing he said.Van Helsing has its moments,but is overall not a very good movie that I wouldn't recommend to anyone.
The Vatican's star monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to help a princess find and kill Dracula.
Best Performance: Hugh Jackman