Damn...Kate Beckinsdale looks fine in that leather!

Left Top: Kate Beckinsdale looking all fine. Left bottom: Same thing!



































Cooler, Gorier, Sexier and better than the first one!

I don't think you have to watch the first one to understand the second one. I enjoyed and own the first "Underworld" and found it entertaining and was really slick but dragged at some parts. While the second one helmed by the first director, Len Wisemen who is also married by the star Kate Beckinsdale(lucky bastard!). This is good old fashioned Friday night hard-R entertainment that doesn't insult you and pits cinema's greatest monsters against each other in an aging battle. The bourgeois Vampires versus the hard working werewolves. I'm more of a werewolf fan, I thought vampires were cool but looking in cinema lately its like vampires are fools that just want to control everything and know what's best for society. They enslave and oppress werewolves and expect them not to fight back and have a war. Like you the hell are you to come and try take away my right to be a werewolf, what the hell makes you so special. Oh, you got fangs, likes that scary. The vampires enjoy the more finer things in life and expect everything on a silver platter. I would rather be a werewolf anytime of the day if I had a choice. OKAY, now moving on the stage is set for the battle of the century.

Where the last one left us with the so fine Kate Beckinsdale wearing leather and killing werewolves for the sake of the cause. She was pronounced as a "Death Dealer", an assassin for the vampire war but fell in love with a werewolf. Well not exactly a werewolf, the last one ended with Selene(Beckinsdale) betrayed by her fellow men and united with a new breed. A vampire and werewolf, as she is now known as an outcast and hunted by the vampire cause with Michael(Scott Speedman), the vampire/werewolf hybrid. As these known fugitives seek refuge, meanwhile the leader of the Death Dealers who betrayed her and the vampires by giving information to the werewolves is still in power...but not for long.

"Underworld 2" wasn't screened for critics, but I just had to see it because I loved the first one. I will not compare the two, but just criticize this one and actually leave you to watch these films back to back as a double feature at home. This one goes more into the lineage of the war between lycans and vampires and their never ending battle that goes into honor, betrayal and whole lot of blood. The story goes by so rapid fast and is executed with stylized gore and fight sequences that it deserves a clap. When I say its gory, it is definitely gory as hell.

Those are just icing on the cake as you literally care for the waging feud between horror's greatest monsters trying to end it with a truce. It doesn't end all happy, but it has a resolution. Len Wiseman has a slick direction and really enjoys seeing his wife wearing tight leather all day on the set. Kate Beckinsdale does a really good job maintaining a role with a premise that could be used for camp, but is really handle serious. It doesn't take talent, but she is a good actress and gives the movie some soul. Not saying the role doesn't require much, but she supplies it with beauty and viciousness. I mean you get enthralled in the war between these two and her betrayal from the crappy vampire league. The movie is told epic scope with a great production design that gives the atmosphere of a Hammer film. All yeah, plus Kate Beckinsdale has a sex scene but doesn't bare all but just enough. That's sad, but who cares!

The other aspect of it is that it is big budget R-rated entertainment rendered in artificial fantasy and CGI. They use a lot of the CGI, but not a whole lot, especially for what I like that gives it the a "Howling" effect with the werewolves. The make-up on the werewolves has more character than the vampires will ever have. It works with a hybrid of CGI and animatronics that looks cool!

As for the gore, its not sick or disgusting for that matter but typical stylized action gore that is pure bubble gum pop for the mind. It's just another movie to hang out with all your cousins or close friends and sit back and just enjoy really fine entertainment. Entertainment it may be, it still may have a importance in the history of cinema. I'm gonna keep this one short, because a movie like this is just a joy and to chill. Or you could look at it as serious cinema. I sure do! It's a movie that is told through mythic story telling that doesn't have the usage of good vs. evil. In the end, we don't know if the battle will truly draw its conclusion!This is Aliye Nyoka saying "Peace Out"