a concise psychological review

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2004)

Van Helsing is all about eye-candy, graphic visuals that rehash various moments in horror movie history, a crude montage of abstract and unrealized design that attempts to say something, anything really as long as it will sell tickets, but just ends up babbling incoherently, baiting us with vague and dramatic visual overtures that ultimately fail to connect with their integral emotional baggage.
if you like flat soda, then you might like Van Helsing, it's sticky, sweet and full of artificial colors, but there's no fizz.
p.s. after watching this movie i couldn't help but imagine kids 50 years from now commenting on the corny computer generated special effects displayed in this genere of uninspired revisitationism; in much the same way that most people today might make similar comments regarding the black and white classics that were at least for their time period creative and trans-original.