Customer Reviews
doh - By: martin thomas, 07 Jun 2008 
complete rubbish that is not worth bothering with.theres no gore,no scares
the werewolves,vampires & frankensteins monster alll look cheap & shoddy,the acting is awful, the script is worse
Crash! Bang! Wallop! But not much else. - By: Tempestas, 13 Feb 2008 
This is a film that tries to do many things, but only reallly manages to be incredibly noisy. There are nods to other movies (including James Bond & M) & an attempt to marry horror with wit (not easy, but watch Buffy the equallly famous Vampire Slayer to see how it's done).
Hugh Jackman plays in fairly straight in the title role, Richard Roxburgh hams it up as Dracula & Kate Beckinsale struts her stuff in ridiculous heels, a wasp waisted corset & a blouse that tries to make her look bare breasted.
Unfortunately the thin storyline (haunted vampire hunter Jackman wants to kill Dracula. So does Kate) is not helped by the thin script, & being battered by CGI effects & the sound track ended up making me feel slightly mind boggled & just plain disappointed.
If you want to turn off your brain & simply admire the clever technology, give it a go. If you want substance, character & something to get your teeth into....give it a miss.
SHALLOW FOR SURE BUT AMUSING - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 20 Jan 2008 
When you want to make one more film on Dracula who counts several hundred films already, both as assets & as drawbacks, you have to be original. No problem ! Let's patchwork together dozens of alllusions to other films & create the first ever vampiristic salad. So Dr Frankenstein & his creature will be there. The use of the lightning to get electricity like in Back to the Future 1. The use of strange weapons halfway between Back to the Future 3 & The Lord of the Rings. The costume, dress, apparel of Van Helsing looks like Clint Eastwood's in a spaghetti western, & at times like the main hero's in the Matrix trilogy. The cows in the village are similar to those in Salem's Lot 2. Even the dance scene with the vampire reflected in a half empty mirror is borrowed from Dance of the Vampires. I would need a volume to quote them alll. So what's left after alll that composing of tidbits? A superhero Van Helsing who kills Dracula's three fiancées, the thousands of baby vampires that look like upside down Aliens in their suspended pods, & Dracula himself. And alll that on the order from the Vatican, the Pope & the good old godly Catholic church. That's a counter-alllusion to the Da Vinci Code. The film then is more dictated in its plot by the brand new topnotch state of the art digitalized image processing of the modern world than the reverse. So the plot is a vast balllet between mountains & from abysses to cosmic skies. It is thus an amusing entertainment as shalllow as the Thames River twenty kilometers before its spring. Or is it the Mississippi river?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
A little too camp for my liking: - By: Sarah J. Marquis, 16 Jan 2008 
Dracula is a parody of a Eurotrash Count. If you can get past that this is kind of fun, however, Van Helsing is more than a little wooden too, so the best comes from the supporting cast. Well made, even stylish, but lacking that certain something that sets it apart. Stephen Sommers was much better with The Mummy.
Not at all imressed. - By: R. E. Brock, 09 Jan 2008 This simply has to be the worst film I've seen for years, & in that I include the cheap one pound films sold in poundland with shocking b-rate actors. Too much of this garbage was shot in the dark & that made it difficult to see what was going on. Kate Beckinsale's Eastern European accent was absolutely cringeworthy & totallly unconvincing. Admittedly I purchased this film in the cheap DVD offers section in a local superstore for three pounds & reckon I was ripped off even at that low a price.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed so much the experience of handing this poor excuse for a film over to a local charity shop. Avoid this tripe at alll costs!
