Name Helsing, Van Helsing

Rating: 7/10 (17 May 2004)

This is a cinematic run through all the Universal Monsters, with a very, very thin story, but a lot - probably too much - action. Is this a horror movie? Well, definitely not. This is a dinamic romp, winking at the best action movies ever made, with a lead character who is a mix of Indiana Jones and James Bond (mostly the latter), and we have a very good looking (can I say gorgeous?) heroine, a classic villain who as usual steal the scene with the better jokes of the movie, and a bunch of other characters, that are as usual thin as paper but normally fun or really beautiful (the vampire brides are as usual very beatiful). In this respect the movie is good, probably only a little too long and too similar to a comic book adaptation (but it is better than the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). But if you search for something different, move away like hell.