At times it almost seems like Hugh Jackman is playing chicken with total career ruin. Despite having a sweet gig going with Wolverine, which puts him amongst some of the highest-grossing and most loved actors currently working, he keeps pulling crap like Movie 43, Kate & Leopold and when he got a little greedy on the franchises Van Helsing. Sometimes you forget Van Helsing ever existed. Like it was some sort of shared hallucination, like the summer Sam Worthington appeared in everything: did it actually really happen? Can anyone provide any real, tangible evidence that it occurred? Because from a purely logical standpoint, it doesn't many anything beginning to resemble sense. Apparently sick of their stable of classic monsters just lying around and not contributing anything, Universal decided it was about time they got a fresh new reboot. Except instead of bringing them all back in new takes on their old horror films, they decided to jam them all together in a stupid CGI mess of an action film where Jackman seems unwilling or unable to inject any sort of personality or pathos into his part. A waste of everyone's time, honestly. Still, at least they learnt their lesson. It'll be a long time before they do another big budget reboot of their monsters with a big name actor reduced to a grunting action hero... oh wait.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
