Completely Derivative

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2004)

This movie was absolutely awful. When Hollywood is set to invest 160 million dollars in a project one would imagine some small fraction of that would be spent on a decent script....evidently not. Everthing...the look, characters, and plot points of this film are lifted from other, better movies. The director seemed to feel that no exposition was necessary, we would all go along with whatever preposterous premise he chose to splash on screen. So the fact that Van Helsing is part of a secret organization headquartered at the Vatican which employs Buddhist monks and Muslim mullahs didn't need any explaining, it passes by with barely a mention so that we can get to the next chase scene. It all went down hill from there. YAWN!!!
I left the theater feeling I had been duped by the Hollywood spin machine into spending my hard-earned money on drivel.