Underworld (2003)

Too much of everything

hyped garbage

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

2003 - 2016: No clean sweep of all major awards ("yet"). No concrete announcements of further future movie ("The suspense", "The pain"). This movie / movies are nothing short of THE ILLUMINATEY. Just, thankfully always with One Thing Missing. I know, now, only father Christmas himself can provide everything for everyone, in a flash, asap, only Santa can... so, what next to believe in... Discovered: Underworld Franchise. So far (Rant for Underworld IX, X, etc.), none of Michael's immortal human parents have met Seline, or their grandchild to be, neither know that Michael is being treated like a piece of meat. So, Now, OK, (Prompt for Underworld IX, X, etc.) nobody is above the law (Clan / Covenant - pay attention) so you would be right to feel uneasy knowing that humans knowledge of 1, the solar eclipse time table 2, the combined Full Moon in the Daytime time table and, our stealth of, if we humans need to bang two heads together we bang two heads together ("You Covenant and Clans go around biting just anyone you feel like biting", "just know that us humans sum 6 BILLION")... And just one other thing please, If you can ask Seline please, now that Vampires and Lycans are "truly" hitting women hard is the Underworld in need of a cascading biological family of Death Dealing Seline's eventually, all with their very own Michael? (I might have unveiled even more enemy somewhere in the Caribbean?)Underworld - My now, be all and end all.

The series begins at the supposed end of the war between the vampires and lycans. Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is a death dealer vampire that hunts werewolves, introduced dropping from a building where she was scowling like a gargoyle. The whole movie is a goth dream mimicking gunplay, leather, heavy metal, and superpowers from the popularity of The Matrix and adding the fantastical twist of mythology.Selene notices that the remaining lycans are trailing a particular human Michael (Scott Speedman). The head of the lycans Lucian (Michael Sheen) has taken a particular interest in Michael. The movie contains some great action scenes that I remember really pleasing me when I was much younger. I always thought this movie had a great mix of action and horror tropes.The plot is all sorts of jumbled picking up in the middle of a story so as to dull any sort of character emotional impact and confusing lots of different threads. There are treacheries and magical happenings that all come together with a bit of ridiculousness that is to be expected in these types of movies. The action lifts it up and the special effects don't look terrible even after thirteen years of advancement. Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

Selene, a beautiful warrior, is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons. Underworld is so much better than Resident Evil this film alone beats every single one of them the effects and the tone of this movie was truly amazing i love the colours of the movie but also the actors for example Kate Beckinsale was awesome she is the heart and soul of this franchise so i can't wait to see the 5th one next month, Scott Speedman as Michael is a character that i always liked which brings me to a problem with this films on why on earth doesn't anyone tell us what happened to Michael we only see flashbacks every time in the next films from 1 and 2 and it's getting annoying. It also feels as a continuation from 1 and 2 cause of the director Len Wiseman who directed this film and the sequel which both of them were awesome what i also like about the first Underworld is the special effects you can easily see that is some kind of puppet or costume there's cgi of course but i didn't spot it easily which means that the Studios did a pretty cool job. As for the villains both Michael Sheen as Lucian and Bill Nighy as Viktor nailed it and the action sequences were pretty epic especially the opening sequence which kinda reminded me a bit of The Matrix and the final fight between Michael and Viktor was really cool and that's why i'll give Underworld an A it's so much better than i remembered it.

Selene (Kate Beckinsale), a beautiful warrior, is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.What so you get if you create a world of sleek vampires, make them angry at a world of werewolves, infuse some "Matrix" mojo, and add a blue-grey lens to the camera? You might think "Twilight" or "True Blood" or something else, and you'd be right. Add a butt-load of guns, and you would have "Underworld".Is this Kate Beckinsale's breakout role? I mean, I know she did some BBC films or something classy, but if you live in my bubble (the genre film bubble), this is what you most associate her with, sort of like Milla Jovovich in "Resident Evil". And with about thirty sequels, why not?