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Summary: What an incredible piece of Junk....
Review: Wither it's Alien, Terminator, Blade, the Matrix, this film and all other films of this dark era genre type of picture. It's always the same. It's junk. It has a ton of fight scenes and CGI effects. No story, bad costumes, and sometimes a waste of talented actors when they could be doing movie roles with more substance to them. These so called film makers should stick to video games, MTV, and Kevin Smith films where all the other no talent people go.
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Summary: Prepare to be stupi-fied (no, not stupefied!)
Review: This may not be the dumbest movie, or the most poorly acted, but it comes close. The script may not be supremely dreadful, but it tries. Let's just say that Underworld gives Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes a run for its money in the "Just Plain Awful" department.Where to begin? The worst part of the movie is the acting. With the exception of Kate Beckinsale, who makes the most of a character as thinly drawn as a Saran wrap, the acting is gag-out-loud atrocious. Worst of the lot is the actor who portrayed Kraven (yes, that's really his name), a guy named Shane Brolly whose career, we can only hope, is over. To say that he's the worst of this sad lot means he needs to be run out of the business with a pointed stick. God, I don't want to waste anymore time writing a review of this trash. The music is loud--and bad. The writing is cliched--and bad. The cinematography is dark blue--and bad. And there are so many ripoffs from other films, including spare costumes from the Matrix, that you wish that audiences could file a class action lawsuit for paying good money for this cheap rip-off. Don't go.
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Summary: Good vampire action film, not the greatest.
Review: If you want to see gun blazing action between werewolves and vampires, Underworld delivers. However, I feel it is overshadowed by other vampire movies (Blade, Blade 2) which have far superior fight coreography and character developement. The werewolves are probably the most interresting part of the movie. The visual effects of their transformations are awe inspiring. The vampires seem to be whimpy. They don't have the superhuman powers normally posesses by vampires. They are strong, but where are the super senses? The stealth? In one scene one of the vampires stands in a beam of sunlight (?) and looks into a dark hole in the wall, unable to make out the werewolf hiding in the darkness. What's wrong with this picture? The beautifully sculpted Beckensale is hypnotic to watch in her skin-tight leather outfit. She does a good job acting the part and leading the film but she needs to play paintball a few times to learn how to move her hands like a real experienced gunfighter. The pistols she uses seem to have an unlimited suply of ammunition. They're fully automatic and can blast away for about a minute without a fresh magazine. I know a lot of firearms depicted in movies seem to have these "dream magazines," but to those of us who know a thing or two about firearms, it completely drains the illusionary world the film is trying to create.
All in all, it's a decent action vampire film with good visual effects. You might want to wait for the rental on this one.
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Summary: So Bad it's Great!
Review: Underworld! Oh dear! I'd heard it was mediocre at best from several people, but no one told me it is a comedy goldmine! I haven't laughed that hard at a movie since, oh, The Crow 2, perhaps. It wasn't quite as funny as Species or Anaconda, but it did give me fits of giggles several times. One of those times was during Michael's transformation scene, when we inexplicably got some sort of internal cam view,...! Another time was when the Garou, I mean Lycans, were galloping along the walls just like the dog alien in Alien3. I gleed aloud! Then there was that time when Kraven showed up, arrayed like Liberace in all his sequinned glory. I oohed loudly,... And then another time was during that fateful sword cut, but I mustn't give all the "good" parts away, right? The movie tries hard to be equal parts The Crow, Batman, and Matrix, all while obviously scooping generously from the heap of White Wolf supplements at its side. The end result is akin to Queen of the Damned meets An American Lycan Werewolf in Paris. It is a LARPers wet dream, where Toreadors languish moodily in gorgeous gowns and warrior women fight in leather corsets and shined-up scuba suits. Take that as you will
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Summary: Killer thrill ride!!!
Review: This flick reminded me of Aliens II...........Not a dull moment on the screen from start to finish!!! If you liked to be entertained by Vampires, Werewolves slugging it out to the death with EXCELLENT special effects! This is it! Enjoy!!
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Summary: This movie is not horrible.
Review: I have read the reviews here and by the critics. Many of these reviews rate the movie badly. I disagree and urge others to consider several factors. One thing to remember about these reviewers is that many are overly critical nuts who have preconceived notions about the movie. They are so set on their ideas that they do not let the actors and directors tell their own story. They changed a few things about vampire and werewolf mythology, so what. That doesn't mean that the movie is horrible. Watch the movie with and open mind and you will probably enjoy it. Now, about the movie. It has great action sequences that anyone could enjoy. The story is not that hard to comprehend if you managed to graduate high school, and is really entertaining on several different levels. My advice, go see the movie and give it half a chance before you start ridiculing it.
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Summary: Nothing orginal
Review: This movie has no orginal ideas, it's Romeo & Juliet meets The Matrix; but man what a ride it is. The special effects are not too over the top and the movie itself is very noir, so if your into this kind of stuff you will not be disapointed. Also if you are a fan of CarrieAnn Moss and her body-suits, you may have found a replacement, or at least a companion for her....
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Summary: Ummm
Review: First off this was a good film. Second, it wasn't scary; and it definitely could have been better. A Vampire verses Werewolf film should be action intensive; and although it did have action none of it was ever in slow motion. (So the watcher never got those cool "matrix" shots.) And most of the action just felt like those old westerns. Draw a gun bang, bang, bang. "Oh, one guy went down and the other's running." "He got shot in the back." "Okay the good guys win." Not really what should be created in our modern world; but! If you can get over that it had a vary good story line, and some cool morphs between humanoid and wolfish. Plot was a Five Star. Acting Five Star. Photography, Five Star. Action, about two.
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Summary: UNDERWORLD--Underdeveloped Characterization
Review: Vampire and werewolf movies usually come in two flavors: one has great special effects with minimal character development while the other is the reverse. When Bela Lugosi hammed it up in DRACULA, his rich, Hungarian cadences resonate even today. Lugosi did not need any effect more special than a dark, creepy castle in which to lay in his coffin. In UNDERWORLD, director Len Wiseman presents a milennia long epic struggle between vampires and lycans (werewolves) in what should have been a riveting tale of a blood feud heightened by some truly outstanding special effects. The problem with UNDERWORLD and films that emphasize sight and sound over characterization is that the balance between the two is a subtle one and that if one is to dominate, then that one should be the latter. One can always tell when this balance is out of whack. If at any time, the viewer has a hard time distinguishing between one set of species and another, then he is pretty sure that the intent of the film is to dazzle the eye rather than engage the mind. Kate Beckinsale is Selene, a vampire killer of werewolves. In her hunting for the lycans, she wears an expression that is as ossified as any that Clint Eastwood has worn. She neither frowns, smiles, nor shows the slightest interest in the rather interesting events engulfing her. In fact, she is more an expressionless female version of another vampire hunter (Wesley Snipes) in the BLADE series. Her male lead is Scott Speedman, who plays Michael, a normal human being whom the lycans relentlessly pursue. The plot revolves around why the lycans want him and what the vampires can do to prevent him from falling into their lupine clutches. I quibble over the wasted potential of a plot that combines ROMEO AND JULIET, BLADE, and centuries-old conspiracy storylines. The only interesting point of the plot was the unexpectedly engaging character of Lucian (Michael Sheen), who as the bearded leader of the lycans, first horrifies us, then causes us to feel some sympathy for a species that is simply reacting to prevent its own destruction by a competing one. There are too many scenes of gratuitous violence, with both lycan and vampire using modern technological firearms to blast away at each other as if they were no more than urban gangbangers delighting in drive by shootings. Further, there were several scenes in which I had some difficulty separating a vampire gunslinger from his lycan counterpart. Beckinsale and Speedman are attractive actors who were clearly instructed by the director to vent their inner demons in over the top gravity defying leaps and bounds. Lugosi, by contrast, never had to amble faster than a slow and dignified gate. UNDERWORLD promises to be the kind of movie that will initially do well at both the both office and the video market. But in years to come, the vampire film that will continue to fascinate a new generation of viewers will still be the one that has the Transylvanian count intoning: "Come here, Van Helsing."
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Summary: A review
Review: The plot is intriguing yet somewhat predictable. Also, the acting is not very impressive (especially Craven's character.) It's pretty hard to care for any of the characters in this film. Having said that, UNDERWORLD is really not that bad. It's stylish and fast-paced. There is something in it for everyone: science, revenge, mystery, thrill, horror and of course love. These elements are not overdone or abused. Some scenes might make you snicker, though, because the acting is so over-the-top. What I really liked about this movie was the fact that it did emphasize on the story rather than overdoing the cheesy horror routines that are bane to such genre of films. The 3 stars are for a great story that could have been acted better. Go see it if you are, like me, a vampire/werewolf fan. This is more of a drama than a horror film, and that's where I think this film succeeds.
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