Wonderful nonsense!

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2004)

Stephen Sommers is a pretty tongue-in-cheek guy. In case you hadn't noticed. Van Helsing is high-camp, high-action, high-effects, and utterly, utterly fabulous.
If you want to see a cunning, suspenseful horror, then go watch Ringu. This isn't it. This is a way fun, high-octane monster romp with delightfully god-awful accents -- don't take it too seriously, because none of the cast or crew have. They're all way too busy having fun.
I'm not going to go over the plot -- there isn't all that much of it to go around anyway, and you already know as much as you need to just from the title and the main image.
Oh, and look out for the guy who played Beni from The Mummy... :)