Too Cool!

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2004)

Van Helsing
Genre: Action/Adventure/Horror/Fantasy/Thriller
Rated PG-13 for Nonstop Creature Action Violence, Frightening Images and Sensuality
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Samuel West, Will Kemp and Josie Maran
Star Rating: ****1/2 out of 5
Hugh Jackman is Van Helsing, who some say that Van Helsing is murder and some say he is a monster hunter and to him it is both. During the late 19th Century Van Helsing heads to the Eastern Europe otherwise known as Transylvania to battle Count Dracula (Roxburgh), Frankenstein and Wolf Man. Van Helsing meets Anna Valerious who happens to be a princess of a royal family and her parents were killed and all there was left was her and her brother. This movie kept shocking me out of my seat every time when there was a scary part coming up and you don't know what is going to strike! I thought some of the weapons the Van Helsing used were pretty cool like this one weapon that is a crossbow but it can shoot arrows like a machine gun!
SPOILER WARNING: Van Helsing gets bitten by a werewolf and then he turns into a werewolf while he is fighting Dracula in the final battle!
Another thing is that I thought Josie Maran was very sexy as a vampire when she was a vampire bat she didn't look good then but when she was back into a vampire she looked sexy. I also thought Hugh Jackman did a great job at Van Helsing because he plays a lot of good main role characters and I thought he was also good in the X-Men movies doing Wolverine! Also, can you believe that Kate Beckinsale was doing this movie while she was filming Underworld at the same time? I know I can't especially with having to be playing a vampire hunter in one movie and then switching to a human character in the other.
BOTTOM LINE: HUGH JACKMAN HAS DONE ANOTHER GREAT ROLE AGAIN!