The production and costume designs were clearly labored over, but like any polished exterior that's merely a fragile casing for an empty center, the film waves off character development for skin-tight leather and pouty brooding.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2024

One wishes that Kate Beckinsale got to have a little more fun as Selene and Kraven is a terrible villain, but the blue-filtered Matrix-rip off (action, costume, gun play) is very welcome. Plus: Nighy is having the absolute best time chewing the scenery.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2023

Conspiracies and allegorical angles aside, this sleekly stylized monster mash ends up a big, muddy mess of bad guys: predator versus predator, and the winner takes the human race.

| Apr 8, 2023

A derivative and dramatically weak mess without so much as a design element that wasn't lifted from something better.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 8, 2020

Pulpy, punk-ish story with some intense violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

...a hybrid horror and action film that succeeds as neither.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 13, 2009

Fails to deliver with anything truly tasty or memorable.

| Apr 29, 2009

...a relentlessly unpleasant fantasy epic...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 21, 2008

Tony Pierce-Roberts' cinematography perfectly captures the gothic comic-book feel.

| Oct 18, 2008

[Underworld] could use more plot and deepened characters and less vapid expository dialogue, flashbacks and ballets of bullets.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

This mostly mediocre movie is a painless enough time-waster, thanks to slick production values and some impressive stunt work, but it never lives up to the potential of its premise.

| Jul 7, 2008

The script unfurls a lot of backstory we don't care about illuminating plot mysteries we also don't care about.

| Original Score: D | Jul 25, 2007

The film even has the nerve to set itself up for a sequel. Of course, the ending is so sloppy, that this may have just been an oversight.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

These vampires have no teeth -- hell, they don't even fly.

| Jun 24, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

[Beckinsale's] detached, no-nonsense demeanor helps give this chilly adventure an S&M-inspired eroticism.

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2005

Endless sequences of posing and posturing by Beckinsale and fellow fangsters.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Oct 15, 2004

'Filme bastante cumplidor con el que se pueden desperdiciar dos horas de vida sin remordimiento de conciencia.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2004