Underworld not getting good reviews...

[Dark Jezter]

Sounds like everybody hates this movie.

You know what this means: Harry Knowles of AICN will post a glowing review of it, the first portion of the review will be a list of all his favorite vampire movies and werewolf movies, the middle portion of the review will be a rave about how hot Kate Beckensdale is, and the final portion of the review will be his typical nonsensical rambling.

 

[Pants]

Sounds like everybody hates this movie.

You know what this means: Harry Knowles of AICN will post a glowing review of it, the first portion of the review will be a list of all his favorite vampire movies and werewolf movies, the middle portion of the review will be a rave about how hot Kate Beckensdale is, and the final portion of the review will be his typical nonsensical rambling.

And all in REALLY BIG FONT?
I've never understood this fascination with AICN, the reviews tell me nothing, and they sound like they were written by an 8 year old. I just don't get it.

 

[Crothian]

And all in REALLY BIG FONT?
I've never understood this fascination with AICN, the reviews tell me nothing, and they sound like they were written by an 8 year old. I just don't get it.

I feel the same way. I haven't read them very often but I've never been impressed.

 

[blindrage]

The movie was alot better than I thought it was going to be. It was cheesy but it was fun to watch. Some nice twists and turns. If you are bored one afternoon, go see it before the night prices at the movies kicks in. Blindrage gives this moive a thumbs up.

 

[gregweller]

The three other people I saw it with and myself, we give it ...counting...two thumbs apiece ...okay, that makes 8 thumbs up. The cinematography was gorgeous--very reminiscent of 'Dark City'. With the exception of the actor that played Kravin, the acting was good. The plot was consistent and made sense. The pacing was relentless. And the best thing about it was that it took itself seriously. There was none of this 'oh let's lighten it up and put some comic relief in' nonsense in it that has ruined so many movies (the reason that 'Conan the Barbarian' is a great movie, and 'Conan the Destroyer' sucked). If the people that made the 'Dungeons and Dragons' movie had showed the same respect for their material, maybe it wouldn't have been so godawful. Just a wonderful movie that left me (no pun intended) bled dry.

 

[jdavis]

Eh it was ok. There was a lot of promise there but just when I would get into one of the characters would say or do something stupid. Everything looked real good the story wasn't that bad, but the dialog was horrible and there was some moments in there where the acting was so bad I just had to put my head down. A better director could of really made this a good film, it still was better than I expected though. All and all I would have to say that this movie was absolutly the worst retelling of Romeo and Juliet ever (and before you say oh yea what about ______, if the lead characters showed emotion, any emotion then yea it was better), of course I was never a big fan of Romeo and Juliet to start with. There was a lot of promise here and at times it was very good, but at times it got so bad I couldn't watch. Not good enough to recommend but also not bad enough to warn people about either.

 

[Dark Jezter]

And all in REALLY BIG FONT?
I've never understood this fascination with AICN, the reviews tell me nothing, and they sound like they were written by an 8 year old. I just don't get it.

Frankly, I can't stand Harry Knowles. I think the man is an idiot who likes to tell everyone his life story in every single review, and there is no rhyme or reason to his tastes in movies; he'll sing praises of mediocre movies because he likes one or two elements about them, and then he'll write long rants about great movies because there was a scene or two he felt should have been left out. Not to mention that his articles read like they were written by an excitable seventh-grader who got hold of an HTML book and web space.

The only AICN reviewer I really respect is Moriarty; his reviews are actually coherent, and generally right on the mark. Granted, I don't agree with every review he writes, but I do agree with enough of them that I regard him as a trustable source.

 

[Kai Lord]

Wow. Saw it earlier tonight and was blind-sided by how good it was. I'm glad I was just in the mood for this kind of movie, otherwise all the negative buzz might have steered me away from a surprisingly well done film.

Kate Beckinsale was stunning in every scene, the Lycans were nicely established as the bigger "bad asses", and it actually had a story. Nothing mind blowing like the original Matrix (which Underworld greatly emulates in style), but just enough to give actual meaning to the many action sequences.

Beckinsale's love interest isn't a throw-away male-modelish character (as randomly they tend to be in female action hero films, ie Tomb Raider et al), but he had a fair degree of charisma, complimenting Kate without stealing the show at the end.

And finally we get back to the glory (or should I say gory) days of American Werewolf in London and The Howling with bone-popping prosthetic werewolf transformations. Oh there was a little CGI, but it was very sparing, and used quite appropriately, such as when the Lycans were running along the walls. Everything else was convincing and cool on-set make-up effects.

I was also apprehensive that they'd go off on death metal guitar riffs to play up the intensity, but nope, even the soundtrack was cool.

I liked almost everything about this movie. Beckinsale was established nicely as an almost Neo-like force, yet wrestling with emotional vulnerabilities and facing much more menacing adversaries on both sides of the war. Melodramatic to the core, but I loved every minute of it.

By far the best vampire OR werewolf movie ever made, and one of the year's most surprising discoveries. Very nice.

 

[ForceUser]

I liked it too. It's not an Oscar-winner, and the guy who played Kraven was a positively awful actor, but other than that I found this movie to be enjoyable. And that was a good twist at the end!

 

[Welverin]

I've never understood this fascination with AICN, the reviews tell me nothing, and they sound like they were written by an 8 year old. I just don't get it.

With the name Ain't it Cool News, what would you expect?