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Summary: Great Video - Shame about the Song.
Review: This is just like a great pop video, lots of special effects and cool looking characters - but promoting a really lousy song.Costumes are great, settings are very gothic, the technology is really cool (they heavily borrow here from the TV series Ultraviolet). The idea seems good, Vampires Vs Werewolves. I was expecting the best of Blade Meets an American Werewolf in Paris. But unfortunately this was not to be. This film is like the guy who was oh so cool in high school, with the shades and the black leather jacket, looking sultry as he smoked cigarettes on his motor bike. But then you meet him when you are 30 and he is still looking cool, but he works stacking shelves in K-Mart!!!!! It looks great on the outside, but there is no substance. This film has no particular plot - that was lost to special effects and cool scenes. This film has no characters that you care about, either to love or to hate. This film is an empty vessel! It is bad, bad, bad. And it isn't even funny bad, because it is trying sooooo hard to be sooooo Cool! And that makes it Sad. So it is sad and bad, or bad and sad. Whichever!
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Summary: Loved It
Review: Sure it has elements of Blade, Matrix, Equilibrium, & Dark City, but it has some cool takes on them. Vampires who don't rely on humans for blood anymore, guns that can kill vampires and werewolves, evolution, a possible sequel, etc. This movie was fun and can't be taken too seriouly especially with the love story in there. Thankfully, humans are hardly seen in the entire movie and the focus was on the feud between the vampires and werewolves. No screaming puny humans! Hooray! Had enough of that. Just screaming and growling vampires and werewolves!
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Summary: Bite me, Kate
Review: A noirish guilty pleasure. Gunslinging vampire-enforcer Kate Beckinsale looks good in black leather (as does the film), even with the world's worst haircut. The story has something to do with an ancient feud between vampires and werewolves, in which a human gets ensnared and Kate falls in love with him. I have no idea whether the film is meant to be taken seriously or not (in one scene our intrepid and entrapped Kate keeps firing bullets in a circle until the floor gives way beneath her--the Marx Brothers once did the same thing with a handsaw), but I broke out in laughter from time to time.
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Summary: I DID NOT LIKE IT..... WHY?
Review: Because it is loud, full of razzle-dazzle and (most of all) the characters are unattractive and unsympathetic. The story is weak, contrieved and full of umbelievable elements. Having said that, I have to say this:
When I first heard about the movie, I thought "Now that's a great idea... werewolves vs. vampires". But when the film actually began, I discovered I was wrong. For me, the problem lies in the fact that this movie does not know what it is. Is it a horror film? Is it an action movie? Is it Sci-Fi? It tries to be "The Matrix" with it's there's-a-higher-plot-behind-this-plot approach. I don't think it works nearly half as well. The story seems quite simple in the beginning with the old narrated explanation formula that sets the story. Then the film goes on forever and new complications keep on coming (and they get to be more and more unbelievable). The screenwriter thought he was constructing a grandiose story... but instead of this he created a pompous story... that's all. Then comes the image. Most of the time, it has this annoying effect of flashlighting which supposedly gives the film a "thunder-like" thing thoughout the entire film. This is not new and has been used many times before with great effect. The problem here is exactly that every effect is overdone... Then comes the looks. The film has this I've-seen-this-cool-before look that obviously comes from (you guessed it) "Blade" and "The Matrix". Maybe they used the same wardrobe... duh! But the thing that annoys me most is (for instance) the fact that the mansion where the vampires live seems like a lobby of a big disco... (laughs) nice-looking people sitting there doing nothing. Then comes the characters... there's simply no one there for you to like!!! They are always full of (too) serious faces expressing the oh-so-big crisis and hidden agendas behind it all. And the story starts to be so pompous that you don't care about what happens next. Then comes the ludicrous aspects of the screenplay... werewolves and vampires are engaged in a battle that is centuries old (all this backstory is stupid)... they have lots of technology and weapons (James Bond-like gadgets) and keep on loudly blowing everything that comes in the middle... and yet they are a veeeery secret thing that we humans do not know about. They blow everything and no one ever asks what's going on... Hmmm... ok.... and the cars... They destroy a Jaguar just to have a Maseratti on the next scene....
It's all too cool to be believable. Keep your copies of "The Matrix" and "Blade" instead. At least these films have much better characters! And it is 2 hours long!!!!
Go check "AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON", "THE HOWLING", "FRIGHT NIGHT" and "NEAR DARK" instead... just to name a few.
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Summary: makes one yearn for the good old days
Review: Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr. would be turning over in their respective graves if they could get a gander at "Underworld," a tale about a war between vampires and werewolves that turns this potentially interesting conflict into one long, unending shootout. Gone are the days when Count Dracula and Barnabas Collins defined for us the image of a vampire. No longer are these "creatures of the night" the suave, well-dressed aristocrats who inexorably - often reluctantly - seduced unsuspecting bystanders into baring their necks to fulfill the need for human blood. The vampires in "Underworld" can't be bothered with such mundane and hokey paraphernalia as coffins, crosses, or cloves of garlic - not even with turning into bats at the first hint of trouble. These modern day vampires talk on cell phones, drive fancy sports cars, use personal computers and fight with all the high tech weaponry modern technology and a limitless studio budget can provide. With all this fun gadgetry to choose from, what's the point in being a vampire anymore? The result of this is that "Underworld" plays more like an over-the-top gangster action film that just happens to feature supernatural elements than a horror film rooted in centuries' old traditions. The werewolves are even less interesting than the vampires in this film. Not only are both camps indistinguishable from one another in looks and appearance, but the werewolves actually come across as surprisingly ludicrous and unconvincing in the few scenes in which they undergo their lycanthropic transformations. Special effects have become so impressive in recent years that even they have a hard time exciting an audience anymore. A case in point: when oh when are action film directors going to jettison that most annoying of all action movie clichés - gun battle scenes filmed in slow motion? "Underworld" has them in spades and they quickly become tiresome and boring. Even the typical urban gothic look of the film - replete with rain-soaked city streets and a perpetual thunderstorm taking place in the background - reminds us instantly of dozens of other, mostly superior outings like "The Crow," "Darkman," "Batman" etc. "Underworld" should have stayed below the ground where it belongs.
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Summary: Interesting story.....
Review: It's hard to decide whether I like Underworld or not. It is definitely a bold movie taking you into the world of darkness where now, vampires are at war with the lycans. I find it hard to like is simply because I'm sympathetic to the humans who are naturally caught in the middle. Though not shown in this movie, we can take for granted that humans will always be cattle. The story is intertwined with love and blood feud like one of those shakespearean plays. Vampires warring with lycans and no one knows why. Selene is a memeber of the DeathDealers, vampires sworn to hunt and kill lycans. No one knows exactly why they are fighting or how it began and it is forbidden to search into the past. Now, the fabled lycan leader, Lucian, has reappeared and Selene feels that this could spell doom for the vampires. Plus she suspects that there is something wrong with the leadership in the vampire coven itself, namely, Kraven. It's definitely action packed and I'm sure a sequel is to follow. I enjoyed the plot twists though the love-theme didn't seems to develop but rather, just happen much like the big bang theory. The characters are definitely interesting. Not likable, especially for me, because I hate vampires and lycans both. The movie does a good job in not progessing into a gory horror show, but rather keep it to the action genre. It's definitely worth the watch for both story and good action.
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Summary: fresh new look to an old story
Review: This film is definatly a good marriage between rome and juliet and the horror genre.
the photography is a lot like the queen of the damned.
good soundtrack and osme really intresting characters
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Summary: Summary + Congrats on well done vampiric film
Review: I was really impressed with this movie because,as other people have noted, it was one of the few good vampire movies to come out of over 15 or more produced in the past decade. I have always been enthatuated with vampire films, especially when they are placed in a modern setting and given an awsome enemy to fight, like say... werewolves. Great storyline and sweet effects, this movie kept me wanting to see what the hell was going down the entire time. It has a very Blade like feel, as well as a bit of the Matrix (all that leather) but neither of these is a bad thing as the film still feels unique. It is a great film and definately one I will buy, once I save up some money.
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Summary: Underwhelmed by Underworld
Review: I'm a big fan of vampire movies and special effects. Blade was an awesome movie, and from the previews Underworld certainly appeared to promise the same action and level of acting. Unfortunately once the first few minutes of action were over, the movie began to fall apart. The basic premise was great; an ancient war between vampires and werewolves. The story and its execution, however, did not live up to the possibilities. As much as I was looking forward to this movie I found that even I had a hard time sitting through the whole DVD. Very disappointing. My copy went straight to ebay...
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Summary: Nice movie if you aren't too demanding
Review: I watched this movie last Sunday evening and found it entertaining. The plot (an ongoing war between vampires and their former slaves, werewolves)was promising, although perhaps more could be expected from it. Fine image, great soundtrack and the kind of gothic scenarios that I love. Acting was good, and Ms. Beckinsale looked gorgeous in her Matrix-bent vampire outfit. Action sequences were fine, except for the effect of the very last sword coup, which I found hilarious rather than impressing. Bottomline: It won`t make history, but is not boring at all, if you like this genre.
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