"I think if you're going to kill somebody, kill them! Don't stand around talking about it!"

This one started out so well. I really, really enjoyed the black and white opening. It just felt right and fun but then it came all kinds of crashing down.

So much stuff cropped into a 120 minute movie. Showing us that van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a monster hunter by letting him fight Mr. Hyde. That he has his own "MI-6" in Rome and his own version of Q in Carl (David Wenham). Walking around the lab showing all kinds of weapons.

Right after that we are introduced to Anna (Kate Beckinsale) and her brother fighting a Werewolf and in the next scene van Helsing and Carl arrive in Transylvania and what thought to be Harpies showed up. They were vampires who can live during the day.

Soon after we learn that Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) wants to give life to his children and the team of 00Helsing, Anna and Carl have to stop them. Along the way they get help from the legendary monster created by Frankenstein.

Anyway there is a lot of 00's CGI, action and at bits a kind slog to get through but still it wasn't a complete waste of time. I really liked the idea they way they started the movie. If they didn't try and put every classic Universal Monster in it, it could've been a franchise right? The 007 of monster hunting, Hugh Jackman as van Helsing. Next time he will hunt the creature of a lagoon! Man, it could've been something.

But yeah, if I were still 16 I would've loved the shit out of this. On a Tuesday morning, it didn't.