Van Helsing

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Van Helsing

PG-13

2004

2h 12m

Fantasy

Adventure

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh). Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster (Shuler Hensley) and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family. Together Anna and Van Helsing set out to destroy their common enemy, but uncover some unsettling secrets along the way.

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Critics Consensus

A hollow creature feature that suffers from CGI overload.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

01/04/2019

1/4

It's this relentlessness of the action and technology that make the film more of a simulated ride. I wouldn't have boarded.

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Wally Hammond

Time Out

11/01/2018

What's left is a world of industrial Gothicism, nightmare morphing effects, ahistoric gadgetry and Breughel-lite grotesquerie.

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Will Self

London Evening Standard

01/09/2018

The exteriors are fantastic, the castles mega-looming, and there's a beautiful -- if fanciful -- masqued ball which shows off to perfection the costumes contrived by Gabriella Pescucci.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Feb 11

1/4

The text of Stoker and Shelley is treated as nothing more than toilet paper in the outhouse of writer-director Stephen Sommers’ imagination, soiled and shredded beyond all recognition.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

Dec 15

3.5/5

Between its spectacular production design, excellent makeup work, interesting visual effects and ambitious story, "Van Helsing" feels like an inflated, epic, varied and fast-paced adventure. [Full review in Spanish].

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Sloan Freer

Radio Times

02/08/2024

3/5

This is Indiana Jones meets Hammer Horror - the relentless action is blended with a knowing undercurrent and dramatic gothic styling.

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Jack S

@JackSV Feb 15

So bad I fell asleep

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Kaden D

@RT72531975 Feb 15

Some part/ logic like lightning somehow incredibly destroying centuries old architecture at just the right/ wrong time was annoying and they went way overboard with some of the action, but overall it's a good movie with interesting stories and characters.

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Olivia B

@oysterclause Feb 14

disliking this movie makes you a hating-ass hoe. van helsing has a star-studded cast with honestly beautiful cinematics and, for the time, some pretty impressive computer graphics. it’s campy, oversexed, features truly diabolical hairdressing and some extraordinary displays of group scene choreography as well as practical effects. ‘muhhh it has too many monsters waahhh richard roxburgh’s accent sucks’ seriously. grow a dick, a brain and a heart

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Saba A

@RT16140233 Jan 8

I don't know why people have grudges against this movie, but for me this is the best monster verse Movie and It's got directed by one and only Steven summers the same person who made the mummy therefore they're both in the same universe. Some people may say it doesn't have good CGI but for 2004 It was the best. This movie has a great and beautiful cast and also the best custom design ever, they actually transformed Hugh Jackman into vampire hunter D 🥀. At last but not least the story was good, but It could have been better if they just used one monster in this movie, but they've got three different kinds of monsters and an angelic monster hunter with no backstory WOW.

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Joe V.

@kctiger Dec 26

A Classic movie that has a terrible rotten tomato score

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Leaburn O

@RT35452347 Dec 15

This is visual effects to excess but I enjoyed it, especially early on. It gets a bit manic in the final half hour but it’s fun, fast paced and an enjoyable plot. Watched on DVD.

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Stephen Sommers

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Hugh Jackman

Gabriel Van Helsing

Kate Beckinsale

Anna Valerious

Richard Roxburgh

Count Vladislaus Dracula

David Wenham

Carl

Shuler Hensley

Frankenstein's Monster

Van Helsing: Official Clip - I'll Set You Free

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - Werewolf on the Loose

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - The Death of Dracula

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - Werewolf vs. Vampire

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - A Werewolf Cure

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - I Am Count Dracula

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Van Helsing: Official Clip - Save the Monster

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Synopsis

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh). Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster (Shuler Hensley) and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family. Together Anna and Van Helsing set out to destroy their common enemy, but uncover some unsettling secrets along the way.

Director: Stephen Sommers
Producer: Stephen Sommers, Bob Ducsay
Screenwriter: Stephen Sommers, Stephen Sommers
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal Pictures, The Sommers Company, Carpathian Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Nonstop Creature Action Viol.|Frightening Images|Sensuality)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $120.0M
Runtime: 2h 12m
Sound Mix: Surround, DTS, Dolby SRD, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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