Underworld Evolution

[hwango]

Caught the 1:35 showing today, so no one could ruin it for me before I saw it.


Meh. I don't know what I was hoping for or expecting, but this wasn't quite it. Some of it was quite good, while many other parts seemed a little hokey or odd or just plain bad. At least one exchange of dialog made no sense at all within the context of the story. Also, this one was much gorier. I can handle gore, but it's not exactly something I seek out, and I think they got a little carried away with it. A little more story and a little less shooting would have been better for me.

Edit: You know, the more time that goes by, the less I can remember the parts that I liked, and the more I remember the just plain awful parts. I think I just didn't want to accept just how disappointing the movie was. One to avoid, I think.

Comments

[tankhangen.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was fairly crappy, and there were so many holes. One of my favorite parts was when the big bad guy, I think his name was marcus, all of a sudden has a trench coat, when he was running around in just ragged pants a scene before. So I guess we can add instantly grow really bitching trench coats to the many various powers of vampires.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Of all of the questions I would have for the writer, the biggest one is "When the heck did Marcus go insane?" We're led to believe that they've been rotating elders every 100 years for a while, and Marcus was supposed to be the one woken up when Amelia went dormant - this is because in the first movie Selene wakes up Viktor early, and Kraven says he was woken up "100 years early." So that means that they were going to wake up Marcus expecting him to be a sane, rational guy who didn't go off and immediately try to unleash his insane brother on the world. Poor planning on the vampires' part, I guess. My second question would have to be what was Marcus actually hoping to do? He raved about creating a new race, but I'm not sure how he planned to do that. If he just wanted hybrids he should have been delighted to meet Michael. The whole story just made no sense, and didn't seem to build well on the events established in the first one.