Van Helsing (2004)
Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) is a man cursed with a past he cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot deny. Charged by a secret organization to seek out and defeat evil the world over, his efforts to rid the world of its nightmarish creatures have been rewarded with the title that now follows him: murderer. (Universal Pictures)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Stephen Sommers
Written By: Stephen Sommers
Starring: David Wenham, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Kevin J. O'Connor, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Shuler Hensley, Tom Fisher, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran
Genres: Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, USA
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| 6 |  |
doctor7 | 3 0% |
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Van Helsing's amazing fighting abilities seem to be getting beat up and barely winning any fight he is involved in. That and the movie ends with a pretty terrible CGI fight. Terrible waste of my time.
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eveelun | 24 2% |
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Ridiculous story, and a number of characters and scenes are reminiscent of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-not a good sign. What was supposed to be the most heartwrenching and sympathetic scene made the whole theater cackle at its absurdity-also, a very bad sign.
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| 4 |  |
vincente | 10 3% |
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Huychu | 12 2% |
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One of the reasons why you should never trust trailers, this film looked like it'd kick ten kinds of ass when the first spot aired during the Super Bowl. Turns out it bit just as much ass, as the dialogue, kept to a minimum in the marketing, was horrible, and the actual monsters looked like they were culled from an N64 game. A cinematic punch to the nuts.
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| 4 |  |
nobamba | 30 15% |
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It's a CGI-fest with screeching monsters, but it's a fun watch-through. I'm constantly mocking Beckinsale's impractical wardrobe and her ability to maintain glamorous amidst otherwise devastating injuries, or Jackman's silly contraptions, or the number of swinging scenes. David Wenham plays a competent sidekick. The werewolf-shedding is a nice idea. Fav scene: werewolf and batcula duking it out with fisticuffs because we can never have enough CG.
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| 4 |  |
INDYATMN | 25 2% |
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Toss it on the dung heap started by Stephen Sommers' Fraser Mummy movies. "More is more" H'wood garbage w/ supernatural beings fought off by non-magical guns and swords (!) and CGI smashed across your face every 5 minutes. Uninspired, unoriginal, & no doubt an easy sell to studio executives. Even Kate Beckinsale's looks fail to alleviate the pain. Better than the Mummy only b/c it has a larger variety of famous monsters for you to sigh impatiently at.
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joseywales | 11 1% |
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Kate Beckinsale doesn't jump from the tops of any buildings in this one as she does in the Underworld movies. This movie is a lot worse than Underworld. See a pattern? NEEDS MORE JUMPING
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| 3 |  |
gogokain | 5 12% |
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The instant you see the corny shadow of Dracula on the wall in the opening scene, you know you've been duped by the most misrepresenting ad campaign ever. I was really excited to see this movie. Whoever made the commercials should have made the movie, because those were dark, serious, and exciting looking. Van Helsing is a wretched, cheeseball piece of drivel that no one should see, ever.
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Anomaly | 24 6% |
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Such an absurd film. Nobody who worked on this has any idea what the laws of physics are, every action scene looked like the worst video game ever. In significant need of more lighting, too. And less explosive carriages. Some extra points for how entertainingly bad it is.
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| 3 | triffid | 32 1% |
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The storyline of "Van Helsing" alone is a giant bad trip. Basically, we have here Dracula trying to capture Frankenstein's monster so that he could spawn thousands of little baby Draculas and Abraham van Helsing's younger brother trying to stop him with a machine-gun crossbow while changing into a werewolf. And the execution is even worse. It's not even "so bad it's good". It's just bad. Unbelievably bad.
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| 2 |  |
DavidBlast | 20 6% |
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In the world's silliest pixel fight you find yourself without a controller. Well, what else to do then, other than start noticing how the computer generated images aren't really up to snuff. I did like the comment "Why does it smell of wet dog?" although the answer is that it doesn't. It smells of sweaty, fat motion graphics designer.
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recklessmess | 75 57% |
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Definitely the darkest of the Van Wilder franchise.
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lachapelle | 15 2% |
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No. This movie bites, and not in the way they intended it to. This is a claims to be a Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror film; it should be classified as Comedy.
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TrixRabbi | 73 38% |
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Kind of appalled how much fun this is. Runs low on gas near the halfway mark but other than that vibrant, invigorating camerawork and a goofy self-aware sense of humor. Roxburgh is the MVP, chewing scenery like he's the villain of the week on Big Wolf on Campus.
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patchworked | 9 1% |
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This movie makes me really, really angry. I enjoy the cast, but some of the graphics... Eeeep. If I can identify where you get stock images from, or if I can shudder from bad edges, I just won't like the movie!
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Ytadel | 0 0% |
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This is one MONSTROUSLY bad time at the movies!
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| 2 | Punchinello | 20 1% |
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The only time I've ever got to see an entire theatre's audience rebel against what was being shoveled down their throats. It was glorious.
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| 2 | Skenkere | 15 3% |
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My favorite part of this movie is how such a massively large budget produced such a massively bad movie.
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fuxoft | 40 14% |
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Hahahahahaha... Oh wait.
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Mentaculus | 11 2% |
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This film was so freaking goofy. I'm sure the dailies came in and the execs said, "Wow, this is bad - let's fix it in post." And then the post-f/x came in and they said, "Damn, this is worse - let's market the hell out of it for an opening weekend and then forget we ever made this." And they did.
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FantacBob | 68 65% |
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Very entertaining, a good example of the genre.
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nauru | 63 62% |
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The over-the-top visuals are great, and despite a lack of real substance in the plot or characters the whole film has a very nice polish to it. A fun watch.
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RainLilac | 55 47% |
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Predictable and boring movie.
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maakal | 2 0% |
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One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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overrated | 12 6% |
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Australians don't make for good vampire hunters. Or good vampires, for that matter.
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Velvet Crowe | 19 10% |
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The idea was there, and it had great potential, but the plot's reliance on convenience and predictable cliche's REALLY brought it down. God, that doesn't even compare to the godawful pacing and CGI which ruined what could have been awesome action scenes. It's also funny how, if you really consider it, how Sommers essentially rips off his own movies when making Van Hellsing given how much similarities it had with his previous movie The Mummy.
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glumpy_99 | 73 42% |
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It’s silly and overlong, and falls to pieces during the numbing CGI-fest of a third act, but still a lot of fun, with Jackman’s stolid Van Helsing and Beckinsale’s overly coiffed heroine balanced by Roxburgh’s delightfully hammy Dracula; he basically steals the film, giving it a much needed shot of energy whenever spirits start to lag. It’s the first act which works best as it gently tips its hat to Bond – love the opening briefing (replete with overheads) by Armstrong’s Cardinal!
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GreatScott85 | 13 3% |
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Awful in every regard, be it the painfully bland heroes, the unbearably hammy and over-the-top villains, terrible CG effects, weak action and a nonsensical, overstuffed plot that amounts to an expensive, messy bore of a would-be blockbuster.
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KramYessev | 38 16% |
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An extremely rare case of the movie licensed game actually being superior to the movie.
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Paxton | 51 22% |
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Hugh Jackman has me completely won over thanks to two films (The Fountain and The Prestige), but I'm slowly learning that that has more to do with the directors he's working with than with his own ability to pick scripts.
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adouble | 5 3% |
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It's incredible that a movie could have so much promise and be so spectacularly terrible. The absolute worst version of Dracula and Frankenstein you've ever seen, and a complete waste of Hugh Jackman.
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| 1 | sbrads2091 | 5 1% |
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Unintentionally hilarious......Hugh Jackman, looking well as always
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| 1 | sifter132 | 66 28% |
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Not a great movie really, but I enjoyed it - despite the awful accents.
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Freder | 15 17% |
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It does create an atmosphere. And it is the most moster-packed movie in many a decade. But the real reason this belongs in the horror section rather than action / adventure is because it is so very horrible. Best stick with Hellboy, which combines the super-hero and supernatural genres much more effectively.
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| 1 | mcgobbo | 21 0% |
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dull as dishwater and twice as flimsy
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mucow | 6 0% |
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Went to see to make fun of it, it was so bad we couldn't speak.
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DBibby | 20 1% |
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Mind-numbing stuff.
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ServantDagon | 1 0% |
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Possibly. The. Most. Disappointing. Movie. Ever.
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| 1 | Kerrek | 42 22% |
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Foul and repugnant
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| 1 | clouseau | 35 10% |
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Only effect!!!
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Dorkovsky | 1 2% |
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All points go to the set pieces.
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BattleToad | 63 25% |
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This movie is just dumb action. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine as Gabriel Van Helsing is a good choice for the hero in this furiously silly monster mash of a film. Don't get me wrong now, I love Hugh, and the rest of the cast isn't bad either. The plot is just too stupid. Comic book fans might have a good laugh with their buds over how they can't believe they watched the whole thing, but everyone else would be wise to avoid it at all costs. Ugh!
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| 1 | Super988man | 10 8% |
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10 for Kate Beckinsale's ass
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| 1 | cestmoi | 25 8% |
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Time for new agents. For everybody.
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TedDedon | 46 17% |
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Not really as cool as I was hoping. The trailer was better than the actual movie.
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warlock | 12 2% |
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Utter crap.
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frederic_g54 | 1 2% |
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So loud... "wwwwraraaaaaaar ..waraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" annoying right ?
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darkman | 15 0% |
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Useless crap.
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| 1 | Q31 | 75 10% |
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As a fan of the classic monster movies, I like the idea of bringing them all together again for this one, and I was prepared to like it even if it wasn't that great. But I really wasn't that enthralled with it. There were a few nice parts--Frankenstein's monster had some nice moments, some sets/scenes/characters were reminiscent of the old horror movies, and the costumes were neat--but I really can't say I liked it much as a whole.
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cselston | 30 34% |
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Simply awful. This movie had so much potential and turned out to be a total let-down. Stephen Sommers - Director / Writer / Producer; both Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale in the cast; Count Dracula; Dr. Frankenstein; werewolves; $160M...and this is what we get? Really?
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Paryu | 25 5% |
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The only thing to remember is the stupid ending, when the stupid face of Gabriel's dead love that appears in the sky. Remember it well, and never make the same mistake yourself.
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| 1 | adornment | 27 2% |
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I watched this for Hugh Jackman. He ended up being the best thing about it.
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