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Summary: Never Again
Review: Save your money, this one wasnt worth it. I wouldnt buy the DVD either.Len Wiseman scores Kate Beckinsale and that seems to be all he was after to begin with here.A waste of seven dollars and fifty cents.
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Summary: A well timed surprise with an amazing score and good acting
Review: The movie climatically was wonderful and a good cast of new faces provided a surprising pleasant performance. Overall the movie was without question one of the better movies of its genre. An unusually thick deep plot was woven while not sacrificing the flow and progression of the action sequences. A good idea for anyone to see it, as I highly recommend you do, and for those of us who have already. I believe the consciences is a sequel should be in order. Enjoy the show, it might ruin you for those of it's kind to come. But I hope it simply raises the bar.
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Summary: dont listen to the haters of this movie
Review: those that reviewed this movie that said it {stink's} havnt seen the movie like they said tehy did. this movie realy surprised methe only problem i ahd was teh actor that played the temp leader of the vampires he was pretty bad but every one else was great the action was good not to over teh top matrix like everyone else said it had and for teh reviewer that said teh jumpin off the chuch was at teh end just saw that in teh preview , cause she did that in the first 5 min . any one liking werewolves or vampires should go see this movie its was a great twist on the treid and boring vampire movies.
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Summary: Not bad, but somewhat disappointing overall
Review: After seeing the previews for this film, which were some of the most striking that I had seen ages, I was really excited about seeing this film. As so often is the case with a film one is expecting to love, it was more than a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping for a masterpiece along the lines of THE CROW or even DARK CITY, but it failed to reach that level. It is, however, still a pretty decent film. I give it four stars, though it probably deserves three and a half.Part of the problem with the film is that it starts slowly, but luckily the second half of this film almost completely redeems the first half. About halfway through the movie, I would have given it about two stars. The story was, despite a great look to the film otherwise and some good fight sequences, just developed very well, and most of the characters were fairly uninteresting. I also imagined that it was predictable, but remarkably it suddenly because completely unpredictable, and unlike most movies, which tend to start well but end poorly, this one got stronger as it went along. I won't offer spoilers, but rarely have I seen a film that as effectively surprised you with a reconsideration of who the good guys and who the bad guys were. There are unquestionably some very nice moments in the end, and some stunning visuals. I love the way that Kate Beckinsale's vampire character jumps off the top of a church tower and seems to impact the ground weightlessly, and near the end I loved the beautiful stunt where she grabs a sword and soars twenty or thirty feet through the air to attack her opponent. And one has to love Ms. Beckinsale's lovely vampire Selena throughout the film. Unfortunately, this would seem to be a low budget film that expended all its cash on Beckinsale, special effects, and artistic design. The acting of most of the actors in the film is beyond dreadful. The performance of the actor portraying Kraken, the temporary head of the vampire clan, is one of the four or five worst I have ever witnessed. And despite the tremendous improvement in plot in the second half of the film, the story as a whole is not strong. None of the characters, not even Beckinsale's Selene, are allowed to develop to any great degree. The portrayal of vampires is quite interesting. The vampires here are quite violent towards the werewolves, but are primarily benign towards humans, nor do they feed upon them. In fact, we learn that feeding on humans is considered immoral. They actually own a blood distribution company, presumably for feeding purposes. Most unusual in vampire lore, the vampires do have reflections, and it is odd to see Kate Beckinsale looking into a fogged mirror, presumably after a shower. Their physical strength is deemphasized, while their physical agility is emphasized. Overall, they seem less powerful than the lycans they war against. For those familiar with vampires as presented in Buffy, most of the vampires here have more in common with Angel than with Angelus. All in all, not a great film, but certainly not a bad one either. My recommendation overall would be to wait for this one on DVD, unless one is especially interested in vampires.
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Summary: Spongecake.
Review: Did you know there has been a war going on for hundreds of years? And it all started because the upper class and lower class dared to fall in love and have an abomination for a baby? Master vs. Servant! Father vs. Daughter! Oh, the drama! How can they fit all this into one movie! Easy, Underworld leaves out any sense of character development and relies on convoluted and cliched story lines. But there is plenty of fun action to distract you from remembering you don't give a lick about the leading characters (what was Kate Beckinsale thinking?). It's like eating Twinkie. Oh sure, it was fun to eat, but once it's gone you wonder why you ever indulged.
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Summary: Waste of money. Here is why...
Review: I have seen an advanced screening of this piece of garbage at the Toronto Film festival. Now here is what I heard. It was supposed to have 2 screenings but it only had one. This is the deal. The festival was called by the company to cancel both screenings because the test sceenings before the festival went poorly (I wonder why). The festival had already sold tickets for the first screening so they could not cancel it. The film company does not want the word to get out as to how bad this film is because they want your money. They can't have your money if you know better than to spend your hard earned cash to go see this poor effort. As for the film itself, it is very tame. The dialogue is absolutely terrible, acting is mediocre at best and only has enough violence to fill its one minute trailor. It copies off of various other movies and did not even beat them at their own game. Trust me, even other members of the audience were laughing at the film even though the director was present. There is also a game where its characters and premise were ripped of by the makers of Underworld. Now, the makers of Underworld are currently being sued by the game makers!!!!! Please keep in mind that any information that I have written beyond my personal impression of the film is based on info others had passed on to me. I am not out to bad mouth the film, but I feel unfairly ripped having to sit through its 2 hours.
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Summary: Enter the Underworld
Review: Taking an old story with old style monsters and usuing mdern age, Underworld should be a top contender to go. The batte is between the Vampires and Werewolves who's war have been waging for years hiding from the likes of human eyes. But Seline a great Vampire falls in love with a Human who has a special blood in his sytem that will stop the werewolves from being extinct, Now a war will wage on. So what do we expect a good story awesome graphics, and taking an old remdeial story of Romeo and Juliette and putting it in modern age might make this a sure hit. I find it should be exciting and action packed to the max. So what should everyone do find the piece of the story everyone will enjoy and go see this movie, looking great.
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Summary: UNDERWORLD
Review: I'm not the biggest fan of dark, gothic-like films. But this film looks interesting. The ides of a vampire-werewolf battle film sounds awesome! I think that Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful and talented actresses in Hollywood (why they didn't choose her for "Tomb Raider," I'll never know), and she looks extremely sexy in this one! I'm gonna try to see this film, are you?
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Summary: The Underworld Is Coming. Are You Ready?
Review: The premise of this movie is basically a gothic rendition of Romeo and Juliet. On one side you have the Death Dealers. An ancient race of vampires living among humans for centuries. On the other you have the Lychans. Savage werewolves who battle the Death Dealers for common survival. Both groups of creatures have secretly been at war for countless centuries but a sudden twist is thrown into the mix. One of the Death Dealer's leaders, Selene (played by Kate Beckinsale), falls for a young human on the run named Michael (played by Scott Speedman). When his ties to the Lychans becomes known, Selene must decide if her future with Michael is worth betraying her people. Set in a gothic/Matrix look and setting, Underworld is expected to be one of the sleeper hits of 2003. This is one fan who will be eagerly waiting in line with his ticket the day it is released.
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Summary: Don't bother with the Extended Cut
Review: The two stars are only for the recently released Unrated Extended Version - not the original DVD. The original DVD is definitely ***** stars for me. Like a lot of people, if I really like a movie, I'll buy the Unrated Director's Cut because of all the extras. But in this case, the original is much better than the new version. Let's compare. The first DVD has a great commentary by Len Wiseman (director), Danny McBride (screenplay), and Kevin Grevioux (storyline - he is also the huge Black guy with the incredible voice who plays a Lycan). They talk about how the three of them came up with the idea for this movie and how it got made. They also talk about how some of the scenes were done, information on the cast, the conditions under which they made the movie - no budget, major time constraints - and what it was like filming in Budapest, Hungary. It also has a technical commentary that I haven't listened to yet. On the other hand, the commentary for the extended cut is done by the director, Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman. This commentary's main subject was talking about Beckinsale's hair, compliments for Beckinsale by Wiseman (who is Beckinsale's husband or partner) and Speedman, teasing Speedman, and gushing over Michael Sheen (who was great as Lucien). There are no technical discussions and the only other cast member who is talked about for any length of time was Bill Nighy (Viktor, who was excellent). Half way through the commentary, Speedman leaves and then there's a bunch of chit chat between Wiseman and Beckensale about Speedman going off to make a movie with the Olson twins. Wiseman also states a couple of times that this version is not a director's cut (are they going to release another DVD?). When he talks about added scenes, he points out which scenes he would have liked in the original theatrical release and the first DVD, and which scenes he wouldn't like to see back in the movie. If he didn't want certain scenes added then why are they in the extended cut? This newer version adds a scene where Michael (Speedman) talks about his past and how he ended up in Budapest, a storyline that adds a love affair between Erika and Craven, plus some added shots of Viktor with the apparatus that pumps blood into him. But there are also numerous and completely unnecesarry scenes of Lycans and Vampires going up and down stairways over and over, and just little shots of objects that are part of the set. In addition, there's absolutely NO reason to title this DVD as unrated, which implies that there are scenes that were deleted because of problems with the MPAA rating. I don't see how any of the added scenes could have pushed the MPAA to make this movie NC-17. I think that was just another ploy to get people to fork over more money for this version. The only thing that I liked in the extended cut were some outtakes. But there weren't enough of them to make up for the additional money you'd have to pay for this cut. To sum up, if you're a film geek who loves to listen to commentaries on the DVD, stick with the original DVD. If you don't care about that kind of stuff and you don't already own the original DVD, then it's up to you if you want to sit through a lot of unnecassary additons that the director didn't even like. But if you already have the first DVD, I would not recommend buying this version (unless you're dying to listen to Beckinsale complain endlessly about her hair). The Extended Cut is NOT a director's cut - it just has extra scenes in it. Some of the scenes the director wanted in the movie and some of the scenes he didn't. How do I know this? - from listening to the commentary
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