Not so bad!

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2018)

Saw this in the cinema when it was released and thought it was pretty okey actually. Since then i've seen it a couple of times on TV. And i still feel that it's a pretty good movie. Sure you have the female hero with a cringe worthy accent and stuff like that, but who cares? It's a pretty solid action adventure fantasy movie with diffrent monsters from diffrent classics mixed. And the specialFX is pretty solid aswell as the scenery is breathtaking at times. With some small tweaks here and there this could aswell been a Castlevania movie. You find almost everything from the Castlevania games in it, and would it have gone this route i think people would have liked it even more.
Insert Simon Belmont with the vampyre killer and add some more fight scenes and uped the horror a small bit and it would have been Castlevania the movie.
Instead we have Van helsing with a forgotten past that works like a early James Bond agent for the Vatican church. Like James Bond he has his Q in the shape of a priest instead.
Some parts of this movie somehow makes me feel like im watching a movie from the past, when fantasy movies like Krull or even Conan the barbarien did their own thing. And it succeds to entertain eventho it isent a Classic like the ones i mention, and some parts are more dull then others after a viewing or two. So an interesting mix of monsters and a diffrent take on the Van Helsing/Dracula story that for sure isent as bad as the score here might give away.