Van Helsing

    Van Helsing
    2004

    Synopsis

    Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

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    Cast

    • Hugh JackmanVan Helsing
    • Kate BeckinsaleAnna Valerious
    • Richard RoxburghCount Vladislaus Dracula
    • David WenhamCarl
    • Shuler HensleyFrankenstein's Monster
    • Elena AnayaAleera
    • Will KempVelkan
    • Kevin J. O'ConnorIgor
    • Alun ArmstrongCardinal Jinette
    • Silvia CollocaVerona

    Recommendations

    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This creature feature is exhilarating fun, a richly designed and often quite funny re-exploration of the movie past.
    • 80

      Dallas Observer

      This beast is as subtle as a Red Bull enema, but it succeeds magnificently as compulsively watchable spectacle.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      A movie that's underwritten, overdirected, overproduced and almost constantly over-the-top. But it's also, at its best, a big tongue-in-cheek extravaganza.
    • 60

      Variety

      The sense of evil overkill is entirely representative of the picture itself, which repeatedly looks ready to blow all its fuses due to sensory overload.
    • 50

      Charlotte Observer

      Universal Studios has unloaded its entire monster catalog in this movie, which is aimed at people with the attention span of a kindergartner. Shreds of coherence and character have been sacrificed to fangs and fisticuffs at every chance.
    • 40

      Empire

      The result reaches overload very quickly, squandering the potentially cool premise in a headlong assault of set-piece over story.
    • 33

      Entertainment Weekly

      Van Helsing, a fusion of eye candy and brain sputter, is a long, kinetic, yet dreary mess.
    • 25

      Christian Science Monitor

      In sum, Van Helsing is yet another video game disguised as a wide-screen epic. Here's hoping the box office drives a firm wooden stake through its hokey Hollywood heart.

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