Vampire drama over vampire action

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2003)

Take typical vampires as aristocrats and make their enemy a very neglected movie monster, the werewolves, set them in modern time and that is underworld. A good movie for those who like the dark atmosphere of films like blade and matrix. At first, I thought the trailer gave too much of the film away in terms of discovering the plot. After seeing it, I was wrong. Underworld has a deep storyline if one pays attention to historical information presented by the characters and leaves a lot of possibilities for graphic novels and decent off shoot movies or sequels. If you ignore the plot and just watch the action, Underworld doesn't rise above in that area but it doesn't fall off the ladder. For vampires vs. werewolves, the powers each are known to have and have in the film aren't used often. The war could very well be between two races of human beings and the same footage could be used.