Underworld (2003) Critic Reviews

As murky and derivative-looking as the film is, it moves with an authority that pummels you into submission. Read the full review

An example of a vampire movie for the new century -- stylish, gothic, gory, and loud.Read the full review

It's so impossible to care about the characters in the movie that I didn't care if the vampires or werewolves won. I might not have cared in a better movie, either, but I might have been willing to pretend.Read the full review

Takes itself so seriously that it never has fun with its shopworn genre elements.Read the full review

Alas, as is often the case with lower-end genre movies, the story cooked up by Wiseman and his friends, actor Kevin Grevioux and the film's screenwriter, Danny McBride, is decidedly less important than the look of the film and its influences. Read the full review

By the end, I was starting to ponder questions like, If a vampire mates with a lycan-vamp hybrid, which parent will have to convert?Read the full review

Achieves only loudness, aggressive confusion and one of the silliest head-splittings in film history. Read the full review

Beckinsale delivers even if Underworld doesn't quite manage to follow through on its initial promise. Read the full review

Plays less like a novel re-imagining of a classic if campy narrative than a drearily self-conscious exercise in Know Your Film References. Read the full review