10 Most Boring Blockbusters Of All Time

If ever a movie proved that more is less it’s Van Helsing, which piles one noisy, repetitive action sequence on top of another for what feels like an eternity. After forty minutes of watching good characters fight bad characters for some reason or other you’ve had enough, but you’re not even halfway through the film.

There must be more to the film than chases and explosions, though, right? No movie whose cast includes Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale can be that bad, surely? Well, think again, because writer/director Stephen Sommers gives the material a camp attitude that reduces the monsters to the level of Scooby Doo villains.

Seen briefly early on, Mr Hyde is the same ridiculous Hulk-like character we saw in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, while Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster have become so nonthreatening that they may as well be advertising breakfast cereal. Then there’s Van Helsing himself, who in this version becomes a monster hunter employed by the Vatican. He gets corny one-liners and a ton of gadgets, so Hugh Jackman plays him like a suave secret agent, not a bad idea when he’s acting against Kate Beckinsale’s glorified Bond girl.