Greatest movie ever

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2004)

Okay, that's a lie, but not much of a lie.
This movie being rated 6.4, that's a lie. Calling this movie anything less than great, that's also what you'd get if you were telling a lie. However, the opposite of this, the truth, that's what I'm talking about.
If you like movies, you like Underworld. If you like talking trash about every movie you see, you hate Underworld. It's simple. This movie is a brilliant work on many different levels. First off, the writing. What most people notice. Dialogue, all that stuff. It's not forced, it isn't pretentious, it isn't a let down at all. The only downside as far as that field is the fact that several important plot points are delivered by a guy with a nearly unintelligible accent.
Now, the plot. The plot is nice. There's actually a very well delivered twist that I didn't catch onto until immediately before it happened, and I'm the guy that ruined Fight Club for himself be figuring out that Jack was Tyler. Still a great movie.
I digress. Onto the directing. The style was eerily reminiscent of Fincher, his work previously mentioned. Several shots seemed lifted straight from a Fincher work, while others paid great homage to the Wachowski brothers, but that was no surprise. The surprise was the influence garnered from old Hong Kong action flicks. Great gunplay.
Other crap, they used animatronics instead of CGI, which is always a plus. Blah blah blah, watch the damned movie and like it.