It hurts... it's not even entertaining at times.

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2020)

I am a big fan of the previous underworld, especially the third, but this one, I could not enjoy it.
The film begins by taking a risk and introduce you to a new context where the humans learned about the two species of vampires and lycans. Problem: you do not get the explanation of how a secret that was kept for centuries is no more one. Worse, at the end of the movie, this wind of change is no more than the same ennemy: the lycans... That's what I call to shoot a bullet in its own foot...
I will however briefly state what I enjoyed in the movie and what worked in every movie so far: the decors that are beautifully staged and with a lot of inspiration to give the so specific ambiance of this whole franchise and colors and visuals. They are wonderfully done. Congratulations.
Now, the acting triggers mixed feelings for me in this movie because there are both good and bad performances, but that's not why I will remember the movie as bad.
The writing of the characters is so basic and insipid. It's truly a shame for a serie such as Underworld films that never have been masterpieces of writing, but managed to make the audience connect emotionally with singular character at least. There are also many plot holes that could easily have been avoided, had the film been 20 minutes longer.
The dialogs are basic and dumb as can be and a few scenes are made even worse by an horrible editing that cuts the scene right to the moment where an interaction between two characters should go on. That's very frustrating, but at least I can say that this movie doesn't lack pace, even if it's for all the wrong reasons.
Otherwise, a few jumpcuts and incoherences, but that's just detail at this point... They should have stopped at the third movie. It's a thing to want to continue a story with potential, it's another thing to execute it correctly. More is rarely a synonym of better with the franchises these last years.