Pure Crap

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2004)

Horrible and I do mean horrible excursion into the old universal monsters vault lacks the class of it's forefathers and puts in a brainless plot that not only insults the viewer but makes the studio who made the movie look like a cheap exploitation studio who's looking to exploit anything it can get it's hands on. Huge Jackman should have read the script before he committed himself to this disaster because he's the only actor in the entire movie who gives a decent performance, the rest of the actors lack any charm what so ever and some of them can't really act at all. Steven Sommers proves in spades that he should not have full creative freedom over a film by his hammy script and really bad direction skills. He got very lucky with the two Mummy films, and that was because he had a game cast that not only made his script better because of their superior acting skills but had a chemistry that transcended the bad material giving. None of the actors in Van Helsing are able to get beyond the really bad script and it shows on their faces that they have no idea what so ever on what they got themselves into.
Avoid