Overdone

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 2004)

You're going to read a lot of reviews saying how bad this movie is...You're going to read A LOT OF THEM, because it's TRUE. This movie just does not know when enough is enough. Overkill. Overdone. Too much of a bad thing. All style, and zero substance. Are all phrases I would use to describe this way too expensive movie, that had some promise. I will give the director this: the visuals in this movie are amazing. I will admit that the music was solid. But when action scenes, become layered on top of action scenes, which become layered on top of two or three more actions scenes, all at the same time, there is too much going on (Learn from Spielberg in Indiana Jones and learn that much of a good thing is good, but also learn from Godzilla that too much of a bad thing is bad!). Not enough in this movie to make me want to care. If you are going to focus on several characters, make me care. Yes the person I was with jumped a few times, and at times there were very creative thoughts mixed in with a whole lot of crap. The whole baby spawn of dracula was such a bad idea. Van Helsing is a regal character deserving of a regal movie. This is just the REGAL BEAGLE with special effects and Larry is still a poor man's Jack Tripper...;)