Underworld: Evolution (2006)

I love this movie so much

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Underworld is a melodramatic franchise about warring vampires and wolves, in which people of different species fall in love. The blue-gray aesthetics are bludgeoning, the script is convoluted and convenient, and the lore is incredibly unwieldy. I constantly found myself checking Wikipedia just to keep up. It's definitely not good, even with moments of ridiculous fun in the action and a surprising sense of care in the filmmaking

The sequel of the vampire vs. lycans franchise expands on the mythology and extends the story of the Underworld films. The movie begins with a flashback to the 1200s and we get some medieval vampires slaying werewolves and an introduction to Marcus (Tony Curran) the remaining elder after the event of the original. The special effects improved as Marcus has wings and a mutated body and face. The wolves look better as well as Marcus's brother William is a new type of wolf and when he bites people they turn into crazed creatures that are permanently changed.Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and Michael (Scott Speedman) are on the run as there is some confusing geography of where they actually are as it seems like Russia but they seemed to be in a city like New York in the first one. They follow a trail of mystery and share a scene of intimacy. It's clear that Marcus is on their trails and it makes for a lot of fun chase scenes. Selene and Scott find a guy who explains a lot of the past as Selene realizes her history is significant to this brotherly blood feud.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

Underworld Evolution had so, so much potential and it's really a downer that the film didn't provide the quality of story that the first Underworld possessed. There were way too many characters in the movie and the role of William as a major part and theme of the film without having a focal character is just really petty when it comes to the flow and understanding of the story. The best part of the film, sadly enough, was the sex scene, where Kate Beckinsale was incredible and really animalistic. From that point forward the story seemed to stretch in its believability and the film gradually added plot hole after plot hole until a point where the ridiculousness was off the charts. The vampire and werewolf action and gore was still well done similarly to the first but that is one of the few things Evolution had going for it. The movie is pretty avoidable, maybe just a onetime watch is all its worth.

Computer-generated fur and fangs. Not fun to watch. Read something like that. Valid points. Movie looks like it has been filmed inside a freezer. That is the whole point, of course, but that ghastly monochromatic hue affects everything, the world doesn't look like this at all. Thankful!Two things. It's awe-inspiring x1000. There is no denying that. And Kate Beckinsale is amazingly beautiful, the fragile vulnerability of her delicately chiseled face, paired with those ice-blue eyes, offset by the raging tornado inside the character. These two things nobody could argue.The movie suffers from being just as inhuman and cold as its predecessor. As a character, the viewer had no feelings for Selene or Michael. There is no character involvement, they do not make themselves likable, they are coldly distanced from us, we see that they act like heroes, and prefer them to that other horrible lot, of course, but that doesn't make them likable.A third thing to mention, as for 'the king of vampires' in that scene with the truck - learned on the DVD commentary that the scene was considered as something to be thrown out, too expensive for the budget. Glad they didn't, that scene is magnificent!The bleakest magnum opus ever!