creative, unique, origional

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 2003)

I had high hopes for this movie when I first heard about this movie. Kate Bekinsale, the super hottie from Pearl Harbor in tight leather stuck in the middle of a Romeo & Juliet Vampire / Werewolf flick. Nice. Very nice. But then you have to ask yourself, just what has not been done about vampires in films in the past 15 year? How many Romeo & Juliet remakes can be made. Somewhere in his grave, Shakesphere is trying to coalesce and scream to screen writers to become origional and to stop using his ideas. I'm sure if there actually were vampires in this world, they'd be so upset that their kind is getting ripped off as uncaring, overly romanticized euro monsters. Then they'd see this movie, and somehow think that maybe, just maybe, it's a good idea to continue using classic texts and classic mythical characters in films.
In this battle, a 1800 year old war between the Vampires and Lichens (Werewolves) feature the best in over simplified classification, the Euro-chic Vampires vs. the Euro-trash Werewolves. Why oh why, are all Vampire films of late filmed in a semiblack and white vague world where you cannot tell if they live in europe, Russia, N. America or whereever? Why oh why do vampires prefer skin tight leather, oh wait, nevermind, Bekinsale was supremely gorgeous in her jump suit. The story was a little different from what i expected, surprise always a good thing, interesting ideas on evolution of ideas, even for immortals (mankind will forever equate evolution from now on as to how better to kill your enemy i fear), the acting was not horrible, but nor was it award winning, and the sound could have been done a lot better, but saying that, any film w/o Yoda's force at Skywalker Sound has challenges in the accoustic department. This film is worth seeing. Out of 5 stars, i would give it a 2 3/4. It would be best to see it late when you and your friends are the only ones there while you yak away adding your own fun ideas about how fun it would be to rip Selene's clothing off and just, well, yeah, you get the idea. Go see it. You will enjoy it to some degree.