Kate Beckinsale looking super hot in black tights (as my wife put it, "like the Hush Catwoman toy figure on your shelf") and using every weapon in an FPS computer game; vampires and werewolves ripping each other's guts out; and a Lord of the Rings kind of beginning (vampires in stylo armour all, I almost wanted to shout "Watch out for that werewolf behind you, Aragorn!").
What's not to like about Underworld: Evolution?
I watched it with the wife and my bunch of comic-lovin', card/board/computer/console gaming-lovin' mates. You know your offline and online lives have blurred when during the scene where the human SWAT team is hunting for the big bad vampire, three voices, including your own, can be heard whispering, "Free frag! Free frag!".
And then the inevitable, "She is level 10 character trying to fight a level 60. Cannot one, sure die."
Too many hours of WoW can do this to you.
Just make sure you watch Underworld again before watching this, or else you will have to try to remember important plot details from the first movie to follow this sequel. It took us the car ride home to connect all the dots completely.
Wife: "Who was Victor again?"
Our friend Dave: "That one lor, the fella who kena his head sliced 45 degrees by Selene one."
The plot was pretty cool in the way it built on the first movie. And I have to say, I enjoyed this sequel more than the original.
Too bad they still insist on showing scenes where the vampires need to use torchlights (or, in Selene's case, an advanced Cyalume stick) to see in the dark, just like the subway scene in the first movie.
Wah lau eh, vampires that cannot see in the dark... harlo???
