Vampires vs. Werewolves - unique? No, you've seen it all before!

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2004)

Actually the premise of UNDERWORLD is pretty nice: Vampires and Werewolves having a war. That's cool. From seeing the trailer I expected to see that too.
Though this film is mostly made with an extreme amount of clichés, one put after the other. There are so many things in this movie that you've seen before that, after a while, you start to believe that you've seen the actual film earlier.
The movie is predictible, boring and actually not interesting at all.
The story behind this is good. Very good actually. And the sets are nice, even though when the art-director said "Make it look gothic", someone must have thought he said "Make everything looks as gothic as you can, even the computers and cell-phones!" It's so goth that it's silly.
Some of the actors and actresses have their moments. But working with a screenplay like this can't be easy. The director and the writer are clearly not movie-material people. They can't direct and they can't write. It shows clearly in the very uninspired direction, making the movie feel very flat.

Where some of the film is very sloppy edited, leaving us with questions, some parts of the film is so too explanationary that it feels like they're telling a story for 3-year olds.
If this story had been given a better treatment from a talented writer and then that script had been given to a real director, then this film might have been really good.
Now, it's painfully ridiculus. Boring, boring, boring and stupid. But hey, you can laugh at it!
Don't spend any money on this mess. You've seen it all before anyway.
3 out of 10.