It doesn’t beat you over the head with what’s important, it just demands – nay, trusts – that you’ll keep up.Īdmittedly, that’s not going to work for everyone. I can’t tell you whether the intervening chapters were this dense or whether this one is unusually so, but here at least you’re afforded just enough time to digest each new piece of information before they’re onto the next one, which may or may not matter. Considering it comes from a franchise with a high concept that makes video games look overwritten, Underworld: Blood Wars throws so many ideas at you that you’re always trying to figure things out.
Artifacts, politics, personal vendettas, magic blood – you can’t hear three lines in this movie without getting information about something.Īnd I’m not going to lie: I was gripped. Over the course of the last four films Underworld has built up a complex mythology for itself, and Blood Wars tries to recap all of it and chuck a bunch of its own in there too. But the material needs to work, because the film rests heavily on the franchise’s one real strength: it really, really takes all this shit seriously. It’s to the cast’s credit that they manage to sell the material, which involves vampiric in-fighting against a backdrop of werewolf assault. Also along for the ride are incoming antagonists Semira, a Bride of Dracula-alike played by Lara Pulver (aka Irene Adler from Sherlock) and Werewolf unity candidate Marius ( Outlander’s Tobias Menzies). Nevertheless, Underworld: Blood Wars sees Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as moody vampire death-dealer Selene, with a number of returning faces from the previous chapters, such as her blandly chiselled sidekick David (Theo James) and his generic vampire elder father, Thomas (Charles Dance).
Now, if you checked out of the Underworld series sometime around 2006, you’re not exactly alone – so did most of the stars.
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