Blade Vs. Matrix, great movie but small mistakes...

Rating: 9/10 (18 October 2003)

Underworld is one of those movies that combines legends (like freddy Vs. Jason). There are the wearwolves and vampires who have been fighting eachother for over a 1000 years. The wearwolves are almost fully murdered out but they're still standing... when the blood of one human (michael) seems to be essential in the battle, selene wants to know what is going on while she starts digging in the history of the vampires and why this war started. This is a great movie, vampires in long leather jackets with a certain type of "elegance", wearwolves that turn in to beasts that would turn the hulk into a whimp, and most of all: action/shooting scenes that you love to see without the overdose of gore. I think the name horror/thriller is a little bit exagerated because there's no real "scare" factor, just a lot of (good) action. The only things that bothered me in this movie were the little mistakes. The vampire-myth says that vampires have no shadow or reflection whilst in the movie, selene is looking in the mirror... The entire movie there are guns, guns and more guns, with specific bullets to kill the other species ect... but at one fight between a vampire and a wearwolf, the vampire suddenly takes 2 whips. A spectacular scene but why didn't he just shoot the wearwolf? To conclude, a great movie with a great mythic story and great action scenes, but if Len Wiseman (director) wants to follow a myth, he has to follow it entirely..