Underworld
Synopsis:
The storyline in this movie is simple with six months after the end of 2nd movie, when humans found out about the existences of vampires and werewolves, and goes on a mission for mass extermination. Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and her lover, Michael Corvin was captured while trying to escape from the humans and was cryogenic in a chamber in a building, Antigen helm by Dr. Jacob Lane (Stephen Rea) under Subject 1 for 12 years before someone breaks her free. When freed, she found out that Subject 1 is the one who freed her and was convince that it must be her lover, Michael who abide her escape and decided to search for him. However, she found out that Subject 1 is a teenage girl called Eve, later revealed to be Selene's daughter. She also discovered that the werewolves or lycans were desperately after Eve as was Dr.Jacob Lane. Dr.Jacob who was revealed to be also a lycan with his son, Quint with the Antigen a cover-up facilities overrun by lycans who are searching for antidote to make them immune to silver bullets and enhancement of their strength. When the lycans successfully captured Eve and brought her back to the Antigen building for operation to harvest her blood, Selene with the help of Detective Sebastian and David, a vampire decided to go gung-ho on the lycans. In the midst of saving Eve, Selene found out that Michael is also cryogenic in the lab under Subject 0 and decided to break the glass to free him before going after Lane and Quint. During the final battle, Lane was killed by Eve while Quint (becoming super lycan) was also killed by Selene. The movie ended when Selene find Michael gone, but hopes to find him again and to rebuilt the vampires clan again.
Review:
With a running time of roughly an hour and half, this movie doesn't bore even a minute due to its non-stop action right from the start. The story is also fresh with not much of battle between the vampires and lycans but moved away with human's being involved in a party of two. The performances are commendable but i felt the lycans CGI was a little bit cartoonish and reminds me of the Incredible Hulk when they were transforming. It didn't have the real wolves type transformation but since we are talking about the Underworld franchise, where werewolves and vampires traded barbs, i will overlook on this factor. Now lets talk about Kate Beckinsale in tight leather black suit. I think its every fan boys dream of seeing such pretty sight of Kate kicking lycan asses and human asses too which is worth the admission ticket.
Verdict:
I give this a 3.8 star out of 5.
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