Gothic Soap Opera

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2003)

"Underworld" posits the notion that vampires and lycans (werewolves) have a long, lurid history together. It's a soap of backstabbing (and graphic frontstabbing for that matter) and hidden agendas revolving around a human who clashes their histories violently asunder.
The movie is a lot of style but not much substance. Dark and rainy nights, bounteous leather painted in greys and blood red. I found it to be middling. The only thing that sticks in my mind about it is how almost all the characters in it are non-human. The special man I alluded to before doesn't remain human for long. Can't say that about too many film especially those using live actors.