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An immortal battle for supremacy between vampires and werewolves is raging. Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is a vampire warrior sworn to destroy the werewolves, who finds herself doubting her leaders when she encounters Michael (Scott Speedman) a human. The movie starts with an action packed shoot out in a subway where we find the vampires hunting down werewolves who are in turn hunting Michael for reasons unkown. It would be very easy to pass over this movie as another Matrix bandwagon jumper, but really I think we all have to get over that. The Matrix brought in a new style of cinematography and styling; subsequent films aren't ripping it off any more than film noir was taken up as a dominant style of it's time. What the Matrix did was introduce a new genre (or amalgam of genres), and Underworld, like Equilibrium before it, is a film within that genre. Ok now I’ve got that off my chest on with the review… The fight scenes in the subway and in general do have a very familiar...

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If I were allowed to print what I really thought about this film then it would be a very short and rude review. But in the best interests of making this thing stretch to 500 words or there about I’ll attempt to salvage some good points from the wreckage. Eh… The effects were good? Okay we’ve seen better but given the nature of the Hulks origins they did rather well. Most things in this world don’t translate from the comic book (sorry “graphic novel”) very well. I know the CGI Hulk has its bad points but all in all the action sequences are very well done, just a pity there wasn’t more of them to brighten up an otherwise very dull movie. Full credit goes to Eric Banan as Dr Banner though; he worked his way rather well through most of the movie and was only upstaged by a few million green pixels now and then. He almost managed to capture the spirit of the old TV series that run forever in the 80’s. I say almost as no one could say “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!”...