Obviously, plenty of people are fans of the Underworld film franchise as it's been on the go since 2003. This is the fifth in the series, although it's the first I've ever seen. Hopefully it will also be my last.
It's not that it's rubbish (though it is), but it reminds me of the feeling I get when someone talks to me about F1 motor racing, rugby, or TV shows with titles like Celebrity Shark Wrestling. I don't care and can't even begin to pretend to care.
The fact that I stayed awake for the entire movie was a plus, as it's something I failed to manage at a screening of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film, At World's End, back in 2007. Blood Wars at least rattles along and comes in at a bearable 91 minutes, while the cartoonish violence and body count makes Game of Thrones look like Call the Midwife.
Anyway, Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as vampire death dealer Selene, who spends most of this film battling both her own vampire types, as well as their sworn enemies, the half wolf/half human Lycan.
As well as several subplots about various characters trying to manipulate situations in their own self-interest, the key to ultimate victory revolves around the attempts by the Lycan leader Marius to locate Selene's MIA daughter Eve, as she's got the greatest blood ever and he's eager to drink it.
There's actually a decent cast here, but it doesn't really matter as the CGI must get the Man of the Match award because it towers above everyone and everything else involved in this gothic bloodfest. Some of the killings are spectacular and gruesome, which should endear Underworld: Blood Wars to those who enjoy such things.
