2006 Directed by Len Wiseman
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Kate Beckinsale Scott Speedman Tony Curran Shane Brolly Derek Jacobi Bill Nighy Steven Mackintosh Zita Görög Brian Steele Scott McElroy John Mann Michael Sheen Sophia Myles Richard Cetrone Mike Mukatis Raoul Ganeev Andrew Kavadas Kayla Levins Attila Lovaghy Monica Hamburg Travis Webster Kaja Gjesdal Christine Danielle Lily Mo Sheen Adrian Hough Michasha Armstrong Krsy Fox Julius Chapple
Tom Rosenberg Len Wiseman Gary Lucchesi Richard S. Wright Skip Williamson Henry Winterstern Terry McKay James McQuaide David Coatsworth Danny McBride Bridget Allen
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If anyone has Selene's outfit, the one she actually wore, let me know. I have Whoopi Goldberg's gym gear available to swap.
The ending of this one is almost exactly the same as the first movie and Marco Beltrami even uses the same Paul Haslinger's track to score it, which is the best example for how useless this movie is. The runtime is hilariously padded with 7-minute long unnecessary prologue and the scattered flashbacks from the first movie, that must have taken at least 10 minutes altogether.
Between those endings there's a very dumb and boring plot where the only thing that captured my interest was the ridiculous sex scene. What on Earth was he thrusting into? Does he not know where the vagina is?
Fuera de serie: Sexy Fangs, Funny Faces & Reservoir Wolves
The battle between the werewolves and vampires takes a back seat as our heroine has some unfinished business with her own kind.
Again, the film is pretty engaging thanks to its great lore, which has been expanded as we learn more about the betrayals and lies that surround these two clans and which we had already been given a taste of in the first movie. Furthermore, the action is more present with a few great set scenes, concluding in a third act that in my opinion is better and more exciting than almost 80% of the movies that make up the MCU franchise, who to this day has a problem in…
Dear Mrs. Beckinsale,
After the depressing Catwoman and Elektra I'd like to thank you for restoring my faith in leather clad women.
Thank you. Really.
Sincerely,
Me
P.S. Your film was a wonderfully gorgeous piece of astounding mediocrity. Well done!
P.P.S. Cinebro, you were right!
Now that's more like it.
When I revisited Underworld, I was just looking for a fun, over-the-top action film with monsters, and some of the other trappings of horror. Unfortunately, however, it didn't really deliver on the action component, with the exception of the final ten minutes or so. Well, this sequel more than makes up for that. This really hit the spot. Where the first one felt mostly bereft of inventive action sequences, this thing is bursting at the seams with them. It also amps up the horror side of the equation as well, with a metric ton of delightful gore and brutal kills. And, there's plenty of monster on monster action this time around.
I also loved most…
The first sequel of the Underworld franchise.
We follow Kate Beckinsale willingly on her run together with her beloved Hybrid.
This action movie is a prequel in the same time. We learn more about the major protagonists and of course also antagonists and their background stories.
The storytelling struggles a bit. Wiseman needs to explain too many things explicitly instead of letting the developments explain the story.
Nevertheless, it's fun and exciting.
Of course, you've to like such vampire-werwolf-stories.
Picking up where the blue-tinged, new millennium-gothic "Underworld" left off, Len Wiseman's "Underworld: Evolution" fills the screen with more of the same vampire versus werewolf action that drove the first film. The war between the supernatural beasts continues, mixing horror and action to entertaining effect. As with the first film, the style outweighs the substance; but, still, the sequel offers a blood-soaked, bullets-a-flyin' good time.
Kate Beckinsale returns as Selene, a vampire in league with a vampire/werewolf hybrid whose ancestry is of interest to both sets of monsters. The narrative supplies enough lore and forward story motion to make things interesting, and the mythology of the burgeoning franchise compels. As with the first film, however, the story suffocates under the…
I masterbated to the sex scene with Kate Becinsale and the hot werewolf guy when I was younger
Don't lie to me. You did the same too.
Great movie with awesome special effects but all the flashback was extremely annoying, I know it's part of the plot to see the past, but it bugged the hell out of me. Overall though, this was a cool flick and Kate Beckinsale looked sexy as always.
Is Kate Beckinsale Nicole Kidman's brunette younger sister? There's a scene where they look exactly alike except for the hair.
This was a step down from the original. The dialogue is corny as hell and the story is so much more convoluted than it needs to be. I watched this, scratched my head, and read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia, and then scratched my head again.
The action is fun and the creature designs and effects are excellent. I love the way Marcus, the head vampire, has these wickedly long wing-talons that he stabs with abandon. The head werewolf is essentially a cross-breed of the werewolves from The Howling mated with the albino werewolf from Ginger Snaps.
Only Kate as Selene is somewhat like-able in this. Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen don't count as they are barely in the movie.
But it feeds my current need for more werewolf mayhem.
I find it funny when films such as these put arbitrary titles in their titles. It could literally be called Underworld: Lawrence of Arabia and it’d still be redundant, which is just the pinnacle of these sorta flick’s performative nature. Anyway, not as surreal as the first but still a gothic tonic ! Kate Beckinsale can beat my ass in her ridiculous spandex attire any day she likes
