Another worthseeing thriller

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2007)

As the debut of Len Wiseman as a director and writer I would say he's got a lot of potential. The plot is overall imaginative and thrilling.
During a mission, Selene, a human-turned-into vampire death dealer, finds that the Lycans (werewolves) are not threatened with extinction and Lucian, the leader of the Lycans, is not dead as the vampires believe and they are after a human, Michael Corvin. As she gets closer to the truth she discovers the secrets of their chasing Michael and Kraven betrays his species to Lucian. She then wakes Viktor, the elder she respects the most, up for help.
The plot surely keeps itself going and makes you want to see how it goes. Each character is very distinctive and remarkable and contributes to the development of the story. However, a very important point doesn't make sense to me at all. According to the rule of "the older the stronger" for the vampires, how can Amelia be killed that easily? She's the third oldest.
A non-mainstream element I noticed is the thing that the Lycans fear - silver as it's supposed to be fatal to vampire in most of the vampire stories. Anyway it's just a kind of imaginative thing so I'm not going to criticise that.
The action part of the film is just fair as people are just "fighting" or firing shots (that's why I call it a thriller instead of an action thriller). Yet it's still interesting to see the war between vampires and werewolves goes modern that way.
You won't see good acting in this film as the performance of most of the actors/actresses is just fair. Kate is too clever to act well but the character is quite suitable for her. Shane as Kraven and Bill as Viktor tend to overact especially Shane as you'll see him talking so strongly in most of the scenes.
Despite the performance of the cast, the film is overall worth-watching and better than other many-million-dollars films.