I really wanted to like it

Rating: 2/10 (22 February 2012)

I enjoyed the other movies in the series, and I had high hopes for this movie. In terms of action and entertainment value it did not disappoint. The problem was, that I just couldn't get past the lack of continuity and the cheapness of the production. For starters, the movie is set 12 years in the future (2024). It would stand to reason that technology would have advanced. However, almost every car used in the chase scenes was taken from a junk lot. The 1978 van that Selene drove in the one chase scene would have been 46 years old and the Lycans that were chasing her were jumping from the rooftops of one 50 year-old car after another. Even the medical van/ambulance driven by the bad guys was an early 90's Ford Econoline. The security system at the high-tech laboratory complex used black and white tube-type monitors like in the 1980's with a big red button in the middle of the panel marked "Alarm", like in the Sean Connery James Bond films, and the only mobile phone that I saw was a flip phone like the one I had back in 2002.
I may have been looking too hard but the special effects looked less believable than the earlier movies. This may be because more of the action took place in better light... the other movies had all the action in darkness and bad weather. The way the Lycans moved reminded me of a SiFi channel movie, and the Super-Lycan looked like Scrappy-Doo from the Scoobie Doo Movie back in 2002.
It just seemed like the budget of this movie was cut way back, none the less, there was plenty of excitement and action, and Selene was as hot as ever. The ending set-up another sequel and I'm sure that I'll watch it, this time my expectations will be lower.