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Underworld (2006)

Underworld 2


Cast:

Kate Beckinsale is Selene
Scott Speedman is Michael
Tony Curran is Marcus
Derek Jacobi is Corvinus
Bill "I'm not Bill Nigh the Science Guy..." Nighy is Viktor
Steven Mackintosh is Tanis


What the IMDB says about plot:

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael (Speedman), the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.


Plot:

The war between vampires and werewolves rages in 1202. Marcus, vampire leader, find a village that the werewolves had slaughtered... The vampires are searching for the Lykan leader, his brother, William. William is caught. However, Viktor wants William imprisoned forever...

Selene explains what happened in the first movie.


Starring in more than just catsuits...
She must awaken Marcus, the elder, before Kraven kills him.

Other vampires try to awaken Marcus who's mutated and dispatches with them including Kraven.

Vampire coven starts to investigate why Marcus destroyed his own coven.

Michael who's been staying with Selene stays at a hideout while she's gone. He heads out to a bar. Unfortunately, a news report announces a number of recent murders are connected with Michael.


Need to go to a dentist to get me teeth fixed.
He starts powering up into his vampire-werewolf hybrid form running from the cops chasing him.

Selene finds that Michael is gone. Thankfully, she finds him nearby and starts kung fuing the cops. However, the bat-winged Marcus flies up and lets the vampire-fight-fu ensue. Marcus is searching for a amulet. Michael and Selene drive off in a truck.


Breaker, breaker, we got a big old convoy...
Micheal is able to lose Marcus before the approaching dawn.

They hide up in a garage for the upcoming day as Michael blacks out the windows for Selene. So let the lovin' ensue.

The vampire strikeforce search the hideout and sntize it by blowing it up...

Selene remembers about the amulet. They need to find Tannis, a vampire historian, who Selene exiled centuries ago. At the monastery, Selene gets separated from Michael. Both of them have to fight some Lykans.


Tougher than than starring in Whiteout.


This is a list of all the romantic comedies you've starred in..

Eventually, she finds Tannis who explains the vampire creation. Marcus was the first vampire and how created the other elders. William was the first Lykan however he couldn't revert back to human form. Selene learns that her father built William's prison which is part of why her family was killed centuries ago. The amulet is part of the key that can free William.

Later, Tannis is questioned by Marcus who reads his mind about the keys.

Selene and Michael are sent to meet Lorenz McCaro, the head of the vampire coven that has been searching what's going on this movie.


Why does everyone think I'm related to Malcolm McDowell?
It's revealed that Lorenz is actually Alexander Corvinus, Marcus' faher. He doesn't believe that Marcus is quite as bad even if he's that crazy.

Marcus reaches his father's fortress and mortally wounds Michael and brain scans Selene to find the location of William's prison. Marcus pays a visit on his dear old dad for the other key by mortally wounding him before leaving.

The dying Corvinus has Selene drink his blood so some of the elder blood will continue. Selene and the vampire strikeforce take Michael with them before Corvinus blows up the fortress.

Marcus searches the castle for the hidden prison cell and finally frees his wolfen brother from the Iron Maiden cell.

Selene and troops enter through the river entrance. Unfortunately, Marcus and William attack them. Elsewhere, the body of Michael comes back to life...


A crack commando unit is hunting down those that think Kate Beckinsale isn't an action star.
Let the dual pistol-fu Kate Beckinsale ensue. Unfortunately, she has to contend with the Lykan bit vampire strikeforce who've become werewolves.

Hybrid Michael joins the fray and battles William. The blue-ragefilled hybrid Michael pulls Williams wolfy jaw out.

Marcus pulls the copter down.


Final showdown...
Marcus versus Selene... Let the sword and wire fu ensue. Unfortunately, she gets stabbed by Marcus. However, she is still able to stab him and push him into the copter blade which slices and dices quite effectively.

As the sun rises, Selene realizes the light isn't burning her and Michael and Kate embrace.


What I say:

In the past 10, 15 years, vampire movies have been being more changed from the Dracula of Bela Lugois and Christopher Lee to another type of vampire...From the half vampire-human hunters such as Blade, video game Bloodrayne, to anime Vampire Hunter D to the realm of sci-fi types that throw in bio-technical jargon to make vampirism a blood disease ala UltraViolet. Well, gothy vampires fighting werewolves thrown together with an almost Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet plot is bound to get enough attention for a sequel.

Kate Beckinsale is not eye-soring but still hard to believe as a tough gun-fu vampire or even just as a federal marshal in Whiteout. Yes, Underworld's Kate Beckinsale is back in her PVC catsuit to run around shooting more werewolves along with some vampires, too...

Marcus seems to mutate almost as much as Drake did in Blade Trinity and mind meld more than Spock did in Star Trek series. Vampire with bat-wings flying all over the place. It is even tossed that Marcus is also a hybrid like Michael who was somehow the first one according to the first movie rather than the vampiric elder from hundreds of years earlier. However, that one quote never is connected into the rest of the movie.

How many times can the heroine's boyfriend keep mutating? A partial vampire-werewolf combination is apparently the most powerful. Without the ability to control his powers, he gets beaten and mortally wounded but does get powered up when his love is in dnager. Near the end, he was running around like a roid-raged blue-skinned Nightcrawler fighting werewolves. It's a shame they didn't have his eyes turn green where he could morph into the Hulk like Bill Bixby did.

The movie has to have action scenes every few minutes to coast over the loose plot points. In a cop action movie, a car chase helps to reduce the notion of why the criminals have a certain plan in other words to coast over the loose plot point. If one thought that the cop drama in action movies is stilted, waiting for the drama in Underworld: Evolution is more so. Maybe, it would feel coherent if I'd see it closer to the first movie.



3 NINJAS

Quotable Dialogue

"They're turning!!!"
"Keep your foot on the gas but stay down..."
"We're gonna have to work on that..."
"Now, you're being rude..."
"You are unwelcome in my prescense."
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Morals of the Story

Colored contact lenses were very popular in the Middle Ages.
Vampires own oil tankers and aircraft carriers.
Platform shoes make truck driving easier.
Vampires are expert SCUBA divers.
Shotguns are waterproof.


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