Van Helsing is a pretty good flick. You've got plenty of action, some nice suspenseful parts, and a valient attempt to squish in the entire Universal Studios monster squad, but... The plot wasn't perfect, I'll admit that. I would have liked to see a little more romance between our protagonist and his supposed love interest. Also, much more character development on both the sides of good and evil. I mean, Dracula was alright... but he kind of came off as your typical, maniacal, Saturday morning cartoonish villain. He seemed like he'd taken evil lessons from Casanova Frankenstein from "Mystery Men". Too much mad, not enough mastermind.

And the ending. I don't want to spoil it but basically, If you hate when all the werewolves in a flick either get killed off or turn back human at the end, this film will disappoint you. This is definitely not a good werewolf flick, seeing as how the werewolf concept and two thirds of the werewolves themselves are severely underdeveloped. Really, it seems they were stuck in as an afterthought and suffered from the overcrowding of characters in the film. Too many characters to decently develop in a two hour time frame. But, if you just need a movie to kill a few hours, rent it or borrow it from a friend who has it...it's not really worth the thirteen or so bucks to own it. Plus, the menue screen sucks!