Underworld: Evolution

What can I say: A solid flick. I found that I enjoyed Underworld: Evolution much more than I thought I would. The special effects were incredible. The story was fast paced. And of course, Seline was hot.

I was amazed at how much plot this movie actually had, and how well it followed the second. I have no doubt that there will be a third, and I'll pay to see that one on the big screen too. For a proper review, I'll need to incorporate spoilers. With that said, SPOILERS AHEAD.




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Anyways, the movie starts off where the last one left off. Seline and Michael are on the move, and Kraven, is still an asshole. While the two heroes are hiding out, he's heading to the Vampire Leader Storage area to kill Marcus. What he doesn't realized (and what anyone who saw the first movie should have realized) is that Marcus is already awake and empowered by the Lycan blood that spilled down into his sleep chamber when the Lycan scientist was killed by Viktor. Marcus goes on a warpath and kills Kraven and his goons, absorbing the memories from Kraven's blood to help him get back with the story so far (this type of thing also helps this movie remain self-contained despite the fact that it's a sequel; you don't have to see the first one to enjoy and understand the second one, though it helps a bloody lot). Long and short of it, he sees the amulet that Lucien had and Michael now wears and it interests him.

Then, Marcus goes to hunt down Seline and Michael and after a pretty cool fight, Seline and Marcus both need to get out of the open because it's morning. All the while, a mysterious old man is investigating what happened to Seline's coven, using photos and video tapes of stuff that happened in the first movie. He cuts open Viktor and removes something.

After sunset, and some Seline and Michael sex, our heroes set out to find a historian that Seline helped Viktor cast into exile so they can help explain all this interest in the amulet (during the Marcus/Michael fight, Marcus tries to get the amulet, but is unsuccessful). The Exile tells them about how Marcus has a brother who was the first werewolf (who we saw in a prologue part of the movie) and that it was Marcus and not Viktor who was the eldest vampire. In fact, Viktor was not born a vampire, but turned by Marcus. The story is told that Marcus's brother is locked up somewhere and the amulet is one key to the prison and the second key is actually under Viktor's flesh (at this point your guessing it's the thing the mysterious old man removed). The Exile tells Seline and Michael to find a guy named Lorenzo or something like that and after Seline and Michael leave, he is killed by Marcus and Marcus gathers all this information from his blood memory. The Lorenzo guy turns out to be Alexander Corvinus who lives on a boat. He is the father of Marcus and his brother who has been doomed to walk to the planet as an immortal. He explains to Michael that he is his forefather, and to both of our heroes that he has been travelling europe cleaning up after the mess his sons have made. He has always felt bad for mankind and stuff.

Then Marcus comes and kills Michael and Alexander, grabs the key and flies away. Alexander tells Seline to drink some of his blood to give her more power, and then she and a team of Alexanders elite troops flies to the location of Marcus's brothers prison (hidden to Marcus until now because Seline's real family were the ones who built the tomb and its location was hidden in her "blood memory" which Marcus was able to absorb just enough of during the fight on Alexander's boat [this is also the reason Viktor killed Seline's family: to keep the prison's location a secret]). Then the final confrontation happens. This is a great battle scene. Michael comes back to life to save the day, and at the end it turns out that not only did Alexander's blood give Seline the power to stop Marcus and his brother, but she can now survive in sunlight.

So, yeah, other than the whole "blood memory" thing, which wasn't a terrible device, I didn't have too many complaints. This was a good movie. The fight scenes were awesome and the pace (one of the most important parts of movies in my book) was excellent. Go see Underworld: Evolution!