awakening of the underworld.
Went to the preview screening of Underworld at Fox last night and it was quite good. You could see traces of Matrix style filming and gun & fighting action, mixed with a bit of Blade hunting type of movie.. mixed with a bit of werewolf action. Add dark scenery, as the film was completely based at night time (otherwise .. they'd probably all just die....), and picture werewolves vs vampire scenes throughout, add a bit of an unbelievable love story (fall in love over one night?!), the awakening of the vampire elders as a backplot to the main plot, and well that makes the whole movie. It starts off a lil slow, and gathers pace halfway through til the end scene. phwoar. The filmmakers didn't use much CGI, they relied on old fashion puppetry and heavy make up for werewolves n vampires and that made it that much better.

The cast was almost entirely British, with Kate Beckinsale, whos previous movie I only saw her in was Serendipity - a far cry from that role, and she was also in Pearl Harbor which I have not yet seen, and Scott Speedman from Felicity (which, I have also never watched heh) as the main actors. Others, were pretty much unknowns cept if you were a British theatre and movie goer..

Of course, the filmmakers would want to leave room for a sequel .. and that they did. Although with what happens in the movie and the story they tell, how the sequel, if there is one, will turn out .. probably wont be as good. Will wait and see.

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