its better than 5.2

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2004)

I think if you like all out action and not a real deep storyline Van Helsing delivers with flying colors! It deserves better than a5.2 rating, guess not enough people have gone to watch it yet. It probably has 2004's best mind-blowing special-effects and whether he's hacking some system (Swordfish) or slicing and dicing(X2), Hugh Jackman is the epitome of cool in a movie.
Yeah the movie is one explosion after the other but at least it is not just senseless violence, I've heard good comments from both 54 year old women and 13 year old kids. That's both ends of the spectrum which says something .In conclusion Van Helsing deserves a little more credit than it's been getting after how many other movies have the hero fighting a giant dog!