UNDERWORLD (2003)

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This is probably one of my all time favorite vampire/werewolf movies. It was also one of the first one's I saw, and it was one of the movies that made me fall in love with vampires.

This was also the first movie I ever saw with Kate Beckinsale in it, and I immediately liked her. She was perfect in her role as Selene, a woman vampire who was traumatized by werewolves when she was a child only to find out later that it wasn't werewolves, and that her entire existance as a death dealer has been a lie.

Scott Speedman was also another great choice for this movie, while he plays Michael Corvin. Although to tell you the truth I had never seen him in anything else, and I still haven't to this day, besides Underworld: Evolution that is. Being a new face to me made him seem all the better as someone who was new to the world of vampires and werewolves. He was thrust into both worlds at once, since he was the one link between both Werewolves and Vampires.

Bill Nighy was another great addition to the cast of this movie, as his character Viktor, seems to be the understanding leader of the vampires. Supposedly the first of their kind, and the vampiric father of Selene, only to find out that it was his fault the war between vampires and lycans was his fault.

Michael Sheen, another actor new to me, was great in playing Lucian, the leader of the lycans. Ruthless but nevertheless polite whilst talking to his prey, or the people he wants to listen to him, like Michael. Then we find out that he had a behind the scenes deal with Kraven, one of the vampires.

Shane Brolly, yet another one I don't know, was excellent as the traitorous Kraven, a vampire who was thought to bring down the ruthless lycan leader, Lucian, bringing peace to the Vampire kingdom for a short while, then we find out that he was a traitorous power hungry social climber, and that Lucian lived.

The story of this movie was excellent, being pretty much the first of it's kind, pitting two of the most discussed horror creatures of our time into an all out war, as each one feels that they were wronged.

The visuals were also great in this movie, the transformations of the lycans being incredibly believable, and the sight of the vampires when they would vamp out, there eyes would turn bright blue and there fangs seemed to get longer.

The director, Len Wiseman, who directed Live Free or Die Hard, had excellent vision and imagination when he created this movie, that turned out to be a huge sucess. We hope to see great things from him in the future.

All in all I'd say that this was a movie worth watching, even if you don't care for these movies that seem to have two completely different things pitted against eachother, that you would very much enjoy this movie.

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