Van Helsing

[Slick]

Last night at midnight I managed to get myself free tickets to one of the world's first showings of this film so I decided to go along.

Tbh it's a bit of a no brainer, the special effects are amazing with all the monsters and scenary etc. But apart from that the storyline's non existant, the acting is way over the top and it tries to create a dramatic clifhanger every 5 seconds. It's not too bad but I was expecting better tbh.

[ken]

whens the release date, the effects look pretty cool ...

[nindo]

should be out today in some cinemas adn general release tomorrow...

Sounds like a Summer movie though, no story but great effects

[Skii]

Cgi followed by Cgi follwed by Cgi ?

I'll pass

[wilsonian]

hmmm, i haven't even seen it yet and i'm dishearten by it all. the trailers look good but if its another star wars (lots of GCI and bugger all else) then i may give it a pass

[Knoxville]

Just got a text from my mate who went to see it last night and apparently it ain't all that hot

[plaz]

I thought it would be a bit of a non-thinking movie. Trailer looks good though, i may go and see it sometime, in no rush tho .

[TiG]

ERm, quite frankly van hesling rocks saw it last night. Its not CGI ON CGI ON CGI, sure there are some pretty spectactular sequences, and the soundtrack is SUPERB!"
Quite frankly the storyline rocks, got substance and definitely got a dark edge, its got a superb non hollywood ending.
Anyone who misses it is DEFINITELY missing out.

TiG

[Knoxville]

Saw it tonight, my mate was wrong, it does indeed rock

don't even get me started on how hot kate beckinsale looked in that corset either......

[headbrace]

It sounds good, any film with Hugh Jackman in is gonna be good, and if it's got a character from Dracula in then all the better. Hopefully I will get to go see it at some point soon.

[steve threlfall]

Very dissapointing

Kate Beckinsale made it bearable but i wont be buying this one on dvd. The cgi was incredible and hugh jackman was decent. Kate was lovely... did i mention that? Just a shame it ws so drawn out and boring

[TiG]

Boring wtf, steve you must be mad, it was awesome. Definitely not boring in my opinion, and that auto crossbow HEH ownage

TiG

[Aaron]

Very much like the director's other movies (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns). If you liked them, you'll like this. If you didn't, then you won't.

I thought his portrayal of Van Helsing was very poor. He should be a dark, gothic bad-ass but he came across as a total dufus.

[steve threlfall]

Boring wtf, steve you must be mad, it was awesome. Definitely not boring in my opinion, and that auto crossbow HEH ownage

TiG

Maybe i was just too tired to enjoy it but hand on heart all i can remember from the movie last night is kates costumes nothing inparticular sticks out- talking about the movie now

Im not saying its a terrible film, who knows might be better the second time

[eldren]

Saw it yesterday, was fairly enjoyable. Not too deep, though, in terms of story-line. And everything got wrapped up almost too nicely, what with virtually everything being explained away.

Spoilerish: highlight to read. Though is it just me, or is it very similar to Underworld, in terms of the underlying vampire vs. werewolf story-line? Just seemed a little too coincidental to me.

[Knoxville]

I think thats always kinda been the ledgend anyway iirc