You really don't want to see Van Helsing. Trust me. It's an overhyped clichéd piece of trash. The movie is 80% action -- and not even good action at that; it's mostly action where the camera moves so fast you can't see what's happening. They have swords...but there's no swordfighting. They have knives...but they're never used. In one scene, Anna (Kate Beckinsale's character) tucks about fifteen knives and four swords into various places on her costume, and NEVER USES THEM. Later in the movie, she's confronted by one of the vampires, and what does she do? She grabs a torch. While she's still loaded with knives. Huh?
And Van Helsing (the character) sucks. He's not a very good fighter (he has cool spinning knife-things, but he only uses them twice), his weapons aren't realistic (ok, he has a cool antique repeating crossbow, but the string never moves!), and his lines are terrible. Not that the lines are Hugh Jackman's fault. But for crying out loud, the best actor in the movie was Frankenstein's Monster. That's not good. Dracula and his ponytail were pretty cool, but his lines are also really bad, and all he does is walk up the walls of his castle (not much respect for physics in this movie) and fly around a bit.
And while we're on physics, Hugh Jackman somehow gets hangtime while jumping between horses. The wires are painfully obvious. And werewolves don't pay attention to the laws of physics, either.
And what's Mr. Hyde doing in this movie?! It's like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen all over again...ok, Van Helsing wasn't as bad, but it was getting there. And by the end of the movie, we still have no idea who Van Helsing is. All we know is
( spoilers. )Don't waste your money; the best scenes were in the trailer.