Overly stylized Under developed

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2005)

The entire concept of vampires and werewolves (lycans, yeah whatever) in a long suffering feud was a great idea. Even the idea of one of the races trying to make a hybrid of the two was intriguing. But instead of developing the characters, making them likable, or even interesting, everything is coated in shadows, everyone looks like a perfect goth caricature, and no one shows genuine emotion. Kate Beckinsale is gorgeous, even appropriately sullen, but she isn't given much to work with dialog-wise while Scott Speedman is boring and unconvincing and it's sad to see the initially great-sounding plot ultimately take a backseat to tired over stylization and done-to-death action sequences.