Synopsis
After regaining his memories, Michael searches for Selene and
their daughter. Meanwhile, Vampires and Lycans have regained original forces to
create a new species of half breeds created by Alexander Corvinus.
Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) fights to end
the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed
her.
The next installment in the blockbuster franchise,
UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS follows Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale)
as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire
faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David (Theo James) and his
father Thomas (Charles Dance), she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and
Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The war between the Vampires and the Lycans wages on with the
Lycans led by Marius are close to defeating the Vampires. He thinks if he can
get the hybrid daughter of Vampire Death Dealer Selene, he blood will be the
key to defeating the Vampires once and for all. But when they attempt to
capture her, they fail and she tells one of them to tell Marius, she doesn't
know where her daughter is; her daughter has cut ties with her. At the same
time, Semira, Vampire Elder implores Thomas, another elder and father of David,
Selene's ally to convince the Council of Elders to give Selene whom they deem a
traitor, amnesty so that she could train new Death Dealers to deal with the
Lycans.
The story begins with a brief recap of events from the last four films where we learn that everyone's favourite vampire death dealer, Selena (once again fully embraced by the leather-clad, forever sulking Kate Beckinsale) has been betrayed and banished by her kind.
The story begins with a brief recap of events from the last four films where we learn that everyone's favourite vampire death dealer, Selena (once again fully embraced by the leather-clad, forever sulking Kate Beckinsale) has been betrayed and banished by her kind.
Kind of disappointed but it doesn’t matter to me a lot, as all matters is characters and movie. The story everything in it has to be right the thing is Scott Speedman didn't want to be in franchise anymore which is shame for that to happen but since he is mention in previous 4th movie he is mention again in this movie. However, I don't want to spoil at all, but its twist you won’t expect at all but you should watch movie its great not because of Kate Beckinsale is sale herself with sexy outfit that everyone would watch in movie that what makes everyone watch movie.
ReplyDeleteIt’s hard to keep track of what the protagonist of the films, Selene, played by Kate Beckinsale in glossy tight leather has been doing all these years, because it seems like she’s been stuck in the war between vampires and werewolves for an eternity now, without much progress. It’s also hard to keep track of where the establishing storylines have gone because at various points we were introduced to vampire-werewolf combos but they just disappeared and were never brought up again.
ReplyDeleteWhat follows is the same, tired clichés of a clan of vampires being attacked by a clan of werewolves and vice versa, and a sub clan of vampires turning against its own. It’s quite remarkable to note that the film has four credited writers considering there’s not an iota of newness to see. Perhaps sticking to the formula was the norm, but that doesn’t explain how four writers are needed to execute something that’s already been done four times before. The juxtaposition of the gun-brandishing chic black vampires with the feral weaponless werewolves is as unsubtle as always, and there’s bullets flying everywhere as Selene and her daughter jump from one place to another.
In Blood Wars, she is a solo traveller with nothing left to lose in the tradition of The Outlaw Josey Wales or Mad Max (if only the screenwriters had given Beckinsale a little more to work with).
ReplyDeleteA peer of Lara Croft and Milla Jovovich’s Alice, in Resident Evil, the damaged warrior might rightly be regarded as a trailblazer for a new breed of action women perhaps best characterised by Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence).
Marking the fifth instalment in the Underworld franchise, Blood Wars rests in the hands of a first-time feature director, Anna Foerster who, although managing to create a few notable moments of action, fails to bring any ingenuity or freshness to its now exhausted vampires-versus-werewolves narrative.
Taking quite a bit of time to get going, Blood Wars – written by Cory Goodman – is filled with lots of politics and nonsensical dialogue between characters who seemingly have a hard time in conveying any emotion, thus, making it all that difficult for the viewer to get invested in what they have to say. Drenched in a seemingly cold, metallic-blue tint, Blood Wars – although certainly not heavy on the action front – does manage to offer a couple relatively exciting action set-pieces.
However, considering that this is a vampires-verses-werewolves kind of a movie, there just isn't enough of that that specific mythology to set it apart from any other action movies – no wooden stakes or silver bullets to see here folks, just plenty of swirling swords and guns that can't hurt anyone.
Accordingly, perhaps here more than any of the three preceding efforts she has starred in (sitting out prequel Rise of the Lycans), Beckinsale bears the brunt of livening up the grey-toned, shadow-soaked drama. It’s with a grim frown that she attempts to add interest, but there’s no trace of texture or energy threatening to seep out of her performance.
ReplyDeleteInstead, Pulver increasingly becomes the most engaging on-screen player to watch, perhaps because she’s saddled with embodying Underworld: Blood Wars’ not-quite-intentional slide into more comic, over-the-top territory. Elsewhere, Dance, James and Menzies grimace and bear their stock-standard roles.
In short time Menkoff is in Melbourne. Some Menkoffian financial finessing sees the bank chief executive, Clive Struthers (Robert Taylor), sidelined. There are also plans for the human resources manager Marjorie Werne (a droll Catherine McClements), and her dog. Menkoff reports to Curry. His plan is to introduce the Menkoff Method, starting with the data processing workers. His first words to the staff, broadcast in Orwellian fashion, are: “My name is Max Menkoff. I am here because you have failed.”
ReplyDeleteI don’t want to reveal much more except to say it involves turning the workers into slavish drones. This is where it becomes quite satirical. Just how far a walk is it from the soulless open-office cubicle to dronehood, after all? There’s also a side-effect in some people, one you may think apt for investment bankers.