After awhile, it's difficult to tell the leather-clad, black-haired good guys from the leather-clad, black-haired bad guys, and when the drama slips into the silly side, things go from dark to dismal.
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09/19/03
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Underworld (2003)
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Reviews Counted:153
Fresh:46
Rotten:107
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Though stylish to look at, Underworld is tedious and derivative.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $51,483,949
Synopsis: In UNDERWORLD, a dark and Gothic monster action movie, vampires and lycans--an ancient form of werewolf--are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs,... [More]
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen
Director: Len Wiseman
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Reviews for Underworld
In the end, it's more a role-playing game scenario than a plot -- although there someone would have worked out rules that make sense.
12/30/06
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01/27/04
These vampires have no teeth -- hell, they don't even fly.
06/24/06
It takes a premise that should have made for primo goth froth ... and renders it (forgive me) bloodless, even when the corn syrup flows by the gallon.
09/16/03
a monochromatic excursion into boredom and despair
09/17/03
By any reasonable standard, this dark vampire epic -- all massive overacting, cologne-commercial design and sexy cat suits -- sucks.
09/20/03
Top CriticAchieves only loudness, aggressive confusion and one of the silliest head-splittings in film history.
09/18/03
For all its slick, neo-noir style, Underworld brings very little that's new to a hoary genre, except for the cliches and conventions of other hoary genres.
09/19/03
Nothing about Underworld is original
09/18/03
Entertaining in fits and starts, but it's undercut by its nincompoop plot and an obsession -- unfortunately prevalent in horror movies these days -- with biomedical mumbo-jumbo.
09/18/03
Top CriticCharacters -- Vampire and Lycan alike -- pose, strut and try to look menacing, but they’re as scary as a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
09/19/03
Overwrought, Overexpository, and Overlong - While its slick action scenes make it worth seeing once, once bodies stop hitting the floor, there's not much reason to care.
11/16/03
When the action scenes don’t work in a movie that’s otherwise 100 per cent vampire cliché, then the movie’s in trouble.
09/20/03
A loud and relentlessly overstated B-movie, and yet not entirely stupid.
09/18/03
There's not quite enough muscle to really sink your teeth into, but fans of the Blade-type vampire movies should be pleased.
09/19/03
The same dumb gun movie you've seen a million times.
09/19/03
A remarkably humorless movie, and not even the adroitly hammy Bill Nighy, as the vampire king, can leaven the overwrought seriousness of it all.
09/18/03
Features some of the year's most laughable dialogue.
09/19/03
...a hybrid horror and action film that succeeds as neither.
06/13/09
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Beckinsale Returning for Underworld 4? 
Is Kate Beckinsale returning for the fourth installment of "Underworld"? According to Bloody Disgusting's sources, the answer is yes. More...
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January 21, 2009:
RT Interview: Bill Nighy talks Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
RT travels to New Zealand onto the set of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans to chat to star Bill Nighy about the complexities of fang wearing etiquette, wet, velvet, 'battle' skirt... More...
July 28, 2008:
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