How to wreck the potential of a story like this..

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2004)

When I first saw the trailer of Underworld I thought: that will be one to look forward to. Now, I've finally seen it and I must conclude this is a disaster of a movie. But then, the story is quit promising. I mean, you take a bunch of vampires and werewolves who have been fighting a war with each other for hundreds of years, and then the fun can begin, at least that's what I thought.
On the contrary, the story turns out to be very boring and totally stereotyped. It was like I've seen the movie before. Every plot was so predictable and so cliché. Every time you hope they surprise you with an unexpected event that changes everything. But no, after half an hour you can turn the movie off, and think for yourself how it will end. Because at first you already know how it will end, and second it will be much more exciting because you're imagination will produce the story much better then the guys of the special-effects studio did.
Such a shame, because the actors don't do such a bad job. In fact, they deliver a quit impressive performance. You can't really live in to a bad story, it requires talent to do so. The cast of Underworld showed me that a bad movie doesn't always mean bad acting.
But what's really a shame is that the story of Underworld, what contains so much potential, is totally wrecked by the movie makers. I simply don't understand how the movie turned out to be so long. As a fantasy/horror/thriller/science-fiction/action lover it is hard to understand that Underworld even made it into the cinema's across the world. This film contains nothing new, no spectacular action, no impressive fights (and I would say you may expect that in a movie what goes about a war between werewolves and vampires), a lame an unimpressive story, and the special-effects are totally disappointing for a movie made anno 2003/2004.

Underworld is entertaining to watch, it is not that bad you desperately want to turn it off as soon as possible, but it could have been so much more. It just is to standard and too much off: Like we did not have seen that before! Even the good performance of the actors can't change that i rate this movie a 5, and that is particularly because of the acting.