Underworld: Evolution Critic Reviews

Overall package is potent. A few rock-the-house scenes of slam-bang derring-do -- are nothing short of sensationally exciting.Read the full review

Wiseman, a former art director and music video director, has a definite sense of style and pace, and the creature transformations are eye-popping. In addition, the cast raises the movie above the level of routine genre schlock.Read the full review

They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.Read the full review

I especially like how, when Beckinsale's half-wolf, half-vampire friend Scott Speedman moves in for a kiss, you can hear the black leather of her dominatrix getup crinkle and crackle on the soundtrack like an old saddle. Sizzlin'!Read the full review

Designed with Underworld fans in mind. Others need not apply.Read the full review

There's a ton of backstory behind Underworld: Evolution, which gets slightly denser and rowdier than its predecessor, but it's ultimately all in the service of a nigh-endless series of numbing, mechanical battles in which snarling protagonists and CGI monsters shoot, claw, and bloodily eviscerate each other. In other words, it's "Underworld," but more of it.Read the full review

Unfortunately, there's little wit or genuine suspense to elevate the proceedings above the level of a cheesy comic book.Read the full review

The fascist undercurrents of this battle remain unexplored. Maybe one day, Hollywood will figure out that pouring acting-challenged starlets into black neoprene and sticking them in front of a blue screen do not a movie make. We can but hope.Read the full review

Humorless, confusing and not very fun to watch.Read the full review