As good of a action flick as any

Rating: Null/10 (23 September 2003)

I really liked this movie myself, was impressed by the whole dark atmosphere/setting of it all. Sort of dissapointed that the vampire side seemed almost as a fragile as any regular human out there, and also dissapointed how they didn't explain or at least visually show some aspects of the character traits, such as a vampire healing from a shoulder wound. But the action sequences where amazingly well done, as fast-paced as Blade ever was, and they did make a good effort to show which was the driving force behind each character and what consequences their actions brought about upon the main plot of the movie. Saying that this was a rip-off of other movies because of any slow-mo image capture effects and the like is similar to saying that any movie in which there was sound is a rip-off of the very first movie produced with sound, as new video editing features and special effect actions are created in the movie industry, the more they'll be implemented, and shouldn't be expected to be restricted to just the original movie they were shown in. I'd reccomend Underworld to anyone wanting an action movie to watch, and that while there was a romance in the movie, it was hardly a Romeo-Juliet type affair, and was only a minor sidefeature of the main plot itself.