A slick action thriller

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2018)

This review contains spoilers.
Underworld is an action horror film directed by Len Wiseman. The movie stars Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman. The movie is about a secret war between Vampires and Lycans. The movie follows Selene, a vampire Death Dealer, that discover a Lycan plot.
Underworld has riveting action scenes that are fun and stylistic to watch. These action scenes have a great gothic style to the scenes. These action scenes are also headlined with a good performance by Kate Beckinsale. The action in this movie are incredibly visceral and gory to watch. The action scenes are a big plus to this movie.
The movie's world and characters are interesting. The movie does well with its dialogue and history. The movie spending the time to do this is a nice change of pace as the movie uses it as a break between the action scenes. It is nice to see the characters have an actual history with one another that should have been expanded upon further.
The movie is vapid in its plot and characters. I wish that the movie focused on the character history more than the strange plot. The plot seemed like it wanted to be an excuse to have action and a reasonable plot. The movie made many strange concessions to have both. The movie should have been more of an action movie or a plot driven movie and not both. There are still some
good scenes in this movie.
Overall I would recommend Underworld.
Grade: B