underworld half under and half over

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2007)

I'm not a big fan of these vampire films, though Buffy does it for me. This is quite a stylish film except that the plot is a little cliché and thin. Beckinsale is good in this role and the whole film has great art direction, yet it feels sometimes like a high shoot em' up computer game put for the screen.
It tries too hard to be cool, though it does succeed sometimes, it also lacks any real intrigue in these characters. I found it hard to believe that the vampire mansion is located in an area that is populated and no one has even noticed. I mean, come on, surely they would have noticed the vampires jumping out of the windows from eight stories high?