World of Darkness

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2015)

If you are interested in RPGs like myself, you've probably heard World of Darkness. This movie is basically a setting based on WoD. There are some positive and negative elements about this movie. The first half of the movie was mostly positive but it gets worse until the end.
*Story: Whether or not plagiarized from other materials (which is a disputed issue) it's a good story. Missions, betrayal, twists most of them leaves you with awe. There are some boring details about story however they don't get in the way of sequences.
*Setting: Dark world, everlasting night, war between lycans and vampires that's been raging on for centuries. Each have their characteristics and features. Immersive...
*Meaningless action sequences: I'm okay with action as long as it doesn't become absurd. Selene; without prior tactics, armed with only pistols killing 6 werewolves who are armed with assault rifles and ambushing her behind a door. People who are not main characters are shooting with precision of a deaf bat. There are lots of scenes like this, get used to it. Of course, Selene dropping to lower floor by shooting the ground and pack of lycans are not chasing after her; let's not forget that scene.
*Illogical details: Why is Viktor and Marcus who are the strongest vampires, lay in the catacombs defended only by one ordinary vampire who can be easily distracted by saying: "Hey, uh, Kraven is looking for you."? If vampires are meticulous about purity of their species and bloodlines why there is a black vampire managing the weapon department? Why, for the love of god, nobody awakened an elder vampire before and why Selene did it because of some paranoid thought which would most likely end up "Oops, I awakened you before your time, sorry about that." and cost her life.
Little details like these makes the movie's second half and some parts of first half insufferable, absolutely trash details. This could have been a masterpiece, but instead it chose to be an ordinary action film with an extraordinary setting.