The reviews for the first big summertime movie blockbuster, Van Helsing, are in and it’s not looking good for Universal Pictures.
The range of reviewer criticism available at Rotten Tomatoes — where the film receives a 4.2 rating on a scale of one to ten, with 96 out of 123 critics conferring the film with ‘rotten’ status — include derisive commentary from Owen Gleiberman at Entertainment Weekly, “a long, kinetic, yet dreary mess” to James Berardinelli’s “the worst would-be summer blockbuster since Battlefield Earth.”
VanRamblings found the $145 million Van Helsing to be little more than a Grade-B Saturday afternoon monster flick, a silly-verging-on-stupid waste of time, money and resources, and utterly forgettable movie fare. Here’s hoping that Troy has more to offer.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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