Underworld...two cents worth...

Yeah, I went out late last night to watch Underworld 2 (that would explain that I'm tired and look like a lychan today). Anyway, here's my "dua kupang" worth.

If you haven't watch it, only read the first point. Skip the rest, I don't want to spoil the movie for you.

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1. Not a bad movie but they should have warned about "You should be familiar...very familiar with the first Underworld before you view the second one".

It was not that great an explaination by the father of all three males (who all are actually playing supporting roles in my opinion) in the second film. If you so happen to watch the second sequeal and skipping the first one, you won't know a few things. For example,

Who is this hybrid and how this hybrid can BE a hybrid and no one else can BE a hybrid (vampiric abilities and were-wolf abilities). I'll enlighten you on that matter, first there was this guy, Alexander Corvinus, who became immortal somehow (I can't remember...it was mentioned in the first Underworld) and had three sons. Yup, three sons. Two of the sons were twins. One of the twin, William, was bitten by a wolf and was the first were-wolf. The other, Marcus, was bitten by a moth (just kidding), a bat and soon became a were-bat, i.e. vampire. What happened to the third? Was not bitten by anything carried the genes of Alexander Corvinus. The decendent, the hero of both the movies, Michael Corvin, carries the genes and in the first movie he was bitten by the heroine AND the were-wolf and so he was the first hybrid.

This would give you some enlightenment in how the Michael Corvin got his "powers".

2. The movie's focus was Selene. In both the movie it was Selene as the heroine. The hybrid fella's just a supporting guy that has more powers than ANY of the villian but does not know how to use it. Probably because he's new with his new founding powers rather than Selene who became a vampire over 600 years ago had lots of practice, seeking revenge of her parents (mentioned also in the first and partially in the second Underworld).

3. The entire movie, the vampire and the hybird needs very little blood to survive. All they did was suck on each other's blood and they have enough energy to kill everyone that is deemed bad. I tell you, the amount of blood sucked in the show was not more than one litre. Okay, the bad vampire, Marcus, has to suck on a whole horse's for its blood to fill him up. Probably because he's the biggest honcho in the movie.Then there was this other villian, all grunts and noise, he was imprisoned in a tomb for all eternity (total was 800 years) and still have energy to kill, rampage and was in beserk mode. Mind you, this were-wolf was entombed and so no food for 800 plus years. Surely his fleas would have sucked HIM dry.

4. The original were-wolf and original vampire fighting a hybrid and a "turned" vampire scene was not good enough. Too short. You have the originals of the two breeds and then destroyed by their enemies by ripping them apart. The hybrid tore the upper snout of the were-wolf like me ripping a wing off a chicken. Then the heroine broke the original vampire's wing, chopped off his hand (very little blood spluttered out by the way) and pushed the villian to the chopter's turning blade to be shredded to pieces.

5. Not enough blood. The fighting scenes were not bad, story was poor but just plain not enough blood. Vampire movie, people getting shot, mutilated, etc but the amount of blood was just below my expectations.

6. So in the end, the hero and heroine CAN live and love each other forever. How sweet. All they have to do is to suck on each other for food (remember they only need less than one liter of blood) and then can battle villians etc. If they have an argument, all hell would break loose. I mean, they have super-strength and super healing ability, and if they get into an argument, catastrophic scene.

Anyway, that's all for now, feel free to add on to the comments on the movie. Brian signing off.