A bit of a shambles

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2003)

I really wanted to like this film; maybe amazingly agile characters in black beating the cr*p out of each other using guns and martial arts isn't the most original of ideas, but it promised fun. Unfortunately the reasonable, if somewhat repetitive use of action is mired in a script marked by clunky dialogue and a massive over-reliance on shaky, blurred flashbacks to explain to the viewer exactly what is going on.
The original premise; vampires and werewolves at war, will have been what interested many people in this film and I still think something good could be done with it. Given the opening box office in the US and the apparent interest from the star maybe a sequel could live up to this film's promise. I'd just suggest the use of a more experienced writer to script as the roots of this film's problems are in the writing.
In summary, while there are the makings of a good film here, this isn't it, although it's not awful.