Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2014)

Not a bad take on the human, vampire, lycan genre. There a some questions that I have though. If the lycan's prey on human's wouldn't there be so many going missing that the human's would notice, even if it was the runaways, the homeless, or those in the boondocks? If only the oldest werewolves can transform at will what do the younger ones eat when they are not in werewolf form? What do the vampire's feed on if not human blood, animal's, blood banks? This does not seem to be answered in this film. Selene is a death dealer among the vampires and goes after any lycan she can. Lucien is the first of the lycan's and is still alive even though he was supposedly killed 600 years ago by a vampire named Kraven. Kraven is just like his name. He entered a deal with Lucien to save himself. Selene figures all this out and raises Viktor, an elder, from hibernation to help her. It turns out that Viktor is the one who killed her entire family centuries ago and turned her. Selene has been led to believe it was the lycan's who did it, therefore her hate for the lycans. She learns of this from Kraven this info leads ends up killing Viktor. Along the way it is discovered that a human descendant (Michael) of the founder of both the vampire and the werewolf lines is alive. He gets bitten by a werewolf and then by a vampire. This would normally kill a human but because of his heritage he survives as a hybrid. Selene has been protecting him from all comers and squirrels him away in semi-hidden places. So at the end of the movie Selene and Michael are safe, at least temporarily, A lot of the bad guys are dead, and only one of the three elders are left, Marcus the son of the founder. Oh yeah, Amelia is the third elder from Europe but she has been killed by the lycans. So there is a really nice set up for the sequel.