Archive for January 29th, 2009

2009.01.29

Underworld Rise of the Lycans

If you’re a fan of the Underworld movie franchise, definitely go see this movie. Even if you’re interested in seeing the rest, this is a brilliant place to start. Underworld Rise of the Lycans is a prequel to the previously released Underworld and Underworld Evolution movies. Usually prequels fail because the writers convolute the story to follow (which already exists), add unnecessary elements, confuse character motivations, and just generally screw up what potentially could be a brilliant excursion. As evidence, watch the most recently released Star Wars movies. Complete suck, and yet they could have been so very good.

Anyways, Rise of the Lycans was quite good. Even having not seen any of the other movies this one stands alone. I was not a huge fan of the blue tint (as were the others I saw the movie with) but I got over that pretty quickly. Amazingly, the same actors came and reprised their characters adding a welcome consistency to the franchise, much like all of the background characters in the Harry Potter movies.

Great movie. Two thumbs up. Someday I’m going to have to create a rating system… For now, two thumbs up.