Completely Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2012)

The movie was in itself not bad. It had some amazing scenes, it was more action-packed than any other 'Underworld' installment, Kate Beckinsale was a stunning presence and the special effects were absolutely gorgeous. The film lacked substance though.
The first movie introduced to us to the Underworld universe, where Vampires and Lycans had a history, an inheritance. In this third chapter (fourth, including 'The Rise of the Lycans') we get nothing like that. The plot is quite predictable and uninteresting, the new characters introduced seem like plot devices rather than three dimensional people and the little girl playing Selene's daughter looks nothing like Michael did when he changed...quite frankly to me it looked like a caricature of the girl in 'The Exorcist'. Also, for me it was a complete disappointment that not only none of the actors from the previous films returned, but, except for Michael, it seemed like their characters were completely forgotten.
I had fun watching it, mostly because I'll never say no to some good fight scenes and impressive building-to-building jumping, but while I had felt excited after leaving the cinema with the previous movies, with this one I just felt sort of blank, as if the movie had nothing truly memorable for me to hold onto.