Why was this film made?

Rating: 2/10 (9 September 2007)

Let's start with the good things about this film: 1) Bill Nighy's performance was decent 2) The vampires and their habitat has some bite in it 2) In the middle of the film the there is some hope that this would develop to be a decent film..
However that didn't happen...
Whatever bright ideas were in the minds of the makes, it does create anything new or special on screen. Hey, let's put together some elements of matrix and blade, make just about everyone wear tight black leather, and mix together vampires, werewolves, obligatory romance, digital effects and call that a film. This one is simple the lamest film I've seen this year. Kate Beckinsale is like female Keanu Reeves - without colour, smell or taste. Seriously - what is it with being a vampire, un-nature's own Gothic killing machine and a little helpless girl at the same time. Maybe those two elements can be put together, but now it's just one indifferent mess, like 99% of the film. The romance between the main characters is unreal... maybe it's supposed to be so, with the undead and all. And the braindead who like this kind of film, in which every event can be predicted beforehand.
But still, it would be better to make one decent music video rather than a sequel.