Rated R for strong violence/gore and some language.
121 Minutes
Directed By: Len Wiseman
Written By: Len Wiseman and Kevin Grevioux
Staring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy, Wentworth Miller, and Sophia Myles
Whether you like it or not, you’re in the middle of a war that has been raging for the better part of a thousand years. A blood feud between vampires and lycans. Werewolves. -Selene
Review
This is how you make a modern day vampire film that is action oriented, which may explain why the third Underworld is in high demand. Len Wiseman creates a fast paced story, that has stunning visuals and incorporates this fantasy world effortlessly into the world of humans. It takes only the first scene to clearly set the plot and transpiring events for the rest of film and leaves ample time to develop the character’s and the story itself.
Selene is a vampire that’s job title is “Death Dealer. Who she deals this ominous death to is a life long enemy, the werewolves. The vampires and werewolves have been a war that has lasted centuries long, and in a world the humans know nothing about. Selene’s life is fairly clear until she falls in love with a werewolf.
Selene is a vampire that’s job title is “Death Dealer. Who she deals this ominous death to is a life long enemy, the werewolves. The vampires and werewolves have been a war that has lasted centuries long, and in a world the humans know nothing about. Selene’s life is fairly clear until she falls in love with a werewolf.
Underworld is no mindless tale with nothing but action and violence to distract you. Each of the character’s and their back round are incredibly complicated and diverse from one another, but their connections are made throughout the story. The immediate bond between Speedman and Beckinsale was incredible, and with the acting talent to back up their quick affection for each other, it became entirely plausible. The rest of the actors helped make this incredulous world seem believable as well. From vampires, werewolves, and insane ancient stories creating the kind of double crossing and character conflict seen in complicated dramas the actors performances were spot on. Especially Bill Nighy as Viktor, who was remarkable as the ancient vampire with his own personal agenda.
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The action in this film is both innovative and futuristic. In battle scenes one can just as easily use an updated version of a silver bullet gun and blow themselves threw a brick floor as whip out a sword and begin fencing. Nothing is out of place and anything is possible for both species and each of their fighting techniques.
The intricate plot doubled with the fast paced original action sequences and a visually exquisite palate to take in makes Underworld a rare achievement in it’s genre. It has all the elements plus more, of a great action or vampire film. Get to the theatres for Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans. It’s going to be a wild ride.
I really enjoyed this film but thought the sequel Underworld: Evolution was terrible. The third Rise of the Lycans was better then the second but still not that good. The biggest problem with it was that it was completely unnecessary; the story has already been told in flashbacks in this first film and really didn’t need to be expanded upon.
As far as the first film goes its greatest triumph is the design. It looks amazing, the costumes, the sets, the eastern European locations are all stunning, especially the costumes.
It will be interesting to see where they take the franchise from here have they run out of ideas or is there room for another film. I can’t believe there wont be a forth film, they took about $300million (nearly three times what they cost to make) at the box office between them and are still racking up DVD sales.
I loved this first one but wasn’t too big on the sequels. It was an interesting take on vampires with all the action instead of having the vampire as the brooding anti-hero or the insane monster.
i think that the fight scene of Rise Of The Lycans is not very great, it is just plain action ”
Rise Of The Lycans do have some great fighting scene between the werewolves and the vampires, it is a nice movie ;.,
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