Another all style, no substance movie

Rating: 3/10 (1 October 2003)

As with (sadly) a lot of other movies this year, this looked so good and so promising, but the reality of it is a huge disappointment. It seems that the film-makers were so obsessed with the style and appearance of the film that they completely forgot about basic things like interesting characters that you can empathise with. Yes, Kate Beckinsale is gorgeous and sexy and has the ice-cold assassin schtick down to a T, but that's all there really is to her character - it's so one-dimensional that I couldn't connect with her at all. The other big problem is that there is zero chemistry between the two leads, infact it all feels a little tacked on. Add to that your usual charismaless forgettable euro-villains and I just stopped caring about the whole thing really. OK, so the film's gothic look and style is great, but that's just not enough when you take all the other factors into consideration. I give this film 3/10