Van Helsing Critic Reviews

The dashing Jackman plays his part well enough, but the script doesn't provide sufficient "Indiana Jones"-style bons mots to win us over. Read the full review

Despite the rococo obsessiveness of its special effects and its voracious sampling of past horror movies, Van Helsing is mostly content to offer warmed-over allusions and secondhand thrills. Read the full review

You have to feel for the army of talented FX people who must have spent months on scenes--trying to compensate, with their artistry, for the lack of dramatic logic--and having to listen to those lines over and over.Read the full review

A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.Read the full review

There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good." Read the full review

Nothing's alive in this trash-heap travesty of warm-weather entertainment, despite the frenetic pace.Read the full review

Kind of like a basketball team of all-stars -- no names, please -- that has difficulty jelling into one smooth and efficient unit. Read the full review

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

Sommers film just lies there, weighted down by a complete lack of wit, artfulness and internal logic. So it's a disaster -- a big, loud, boring wreck. Read the full review