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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
It's the sort of film that's far more fun to talk about that it is to watch. It doesn't rise to the level of hootingly bad camp; it's too turgid and serious for that, with overwrought dialogue.
09/19/03
The film clings resolutely to its few strengths, hoping we don’t notice how often it repeats itself.
09/19/03
For the low budget they had (only $23 million) they did a very impressive job bringing this world to life.
09/18/03
Werewolves and Vampires and Katie ... oh my!
09/18/03
With cinematography this gorgeously monochromatic, and an allegory so entertainingly ludicrous, all can be forgiven.
09/18/03
Underworld captured my attention sporadically, but not consistently.
09/18/03
Top CriticA slick-looking but empty monster movie that not-so-subtly borrows from everything.
09/18/03
slap it on the posters: "NOT THAT BAD!" - Arizona Daily Star
09/18/03
Achieves only loudness, aggressive confusion and one of the silliest head-splittings in film history.
09/18/03
Alas, as is often the case with lower-end genre movies, the story cooked up by Wiseman and his friends, actor Kevin Grevioux and the film's screenwriter, Danny McBride, is decidedly less important than the look of the film and its influences.
09/18/03
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
It's slick and technically well made, but also derivative and slow.
09/18/03
Top CriticBeckinsale's as much vamp as vampire, and that she's clad in tight shiny leather doesn't at all hurt her contribution to the cachet of the action drama.
09/18/03
Echoes the muscular feel of Aliens, the relentless speed of The Terminator and the architectural colorlessness and operatic anxiety of Dark City.
09/18/03
Top CriticEntertaining 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 CriticThe action is fun, if a little derivative, but the rest of the film is completely ridiculous.
09/18/03
Tony Pierce-Roberts's moody camera work and Martin Hunter's rat-a-tat-tat editing give it an electricity that horror buffs will enjoy.
09/18/03
Revels in more flash than fantasy. There's awful lot of story fat here between the form-fitting plastic jumpsuits.
09/18/03
However much Underworld recycles elements from other films, it carries us into a well-constructed, convincingly scary world worth visiting.
09/18/03
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