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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1533063" data-attributes="member: 3570">I gave it an 8.  This movie rocked, I loved it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Good, clean monster fun.  Blew away both Mummy movies by a *long shot*.  The monsters were cool, the effects were cool for the most part (and what the hell was up with Mr. Hyde, those were Gollum quality effects!), Jackman was well suited for the part and Beckinsale was absolutely stunning.The story was all over the place but fun.  I think its funny that clouds blocking the moon made werewolves change back into humans, but going inside buildings didn't have the same effect.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> And a little more exposition on just how being "the Left Hand of God" allowed Van Helsing to live 400 years would have been nice, but it was just a terrific rollercoaster ride.The opening black and white prologue was great, Van Helsing's establishing "bad ass" scene vs. Mr. Hyde was amusing and fun, and I think the sweeping pan around Kate as she drew her sword for the first time may just be my new favorite scene in cinema history.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> A number of effects shots didn't work (the compositing of Van Helsing swinging down to grab Anna at the costume ball was *horrible*) but the ones that really mattered did.  I loved how powerful they made the Wolfmen, and the sound effects in the final battle really went a long way toward selling the scene.  And I'm always a sucker for Return of the Jedi-style cross cutting between multiple climactic fights.I did burst out laughing after the Wolfman made his second long fall into a river followed by a tiny splash and my friend Mike said, "Holy crap, the Wolfman's Wile E. Coyote!"   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> There was a lot in the movie that was definitely goofy (the Transylvanian horses were *so* fast they even warranted the red Indiana Jones style line across the map...whoa, now *those* are badass horses!)   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   But it was all in good fun.  A matinee showing well worth the price of admission, and I'll probably see it again before buying it the day it comes out on DVD.I wonder what monsters will show up in the sequel.</blockquote>

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