The 1st Underworld was a pleasant surprise to me and since it was a direct setup to the sequel, I had to get to see it...
It's now done. :)
The 2 films work more or less as one as the 2nd starts exactly where the 1st one left us...
I thought the 1st one was a bit of a slow starter, with the best bits at the end. Here it starts off really well with a great opening medieval scene. And you get to see good werewolves. Not the kind where you actually only see the head or the upper body in the dark. No here you have full werewolves in the full light (of torches)!
And it carries on nicely with cool fights and monsters and more gore in 15min than the whole 1st one!
It's therefore a bit disappointing that the story loses momentum.
The thing I loved in the 1st one is that it gave you a glimpse of what suggested a rich and complex universe (the vampire society and politics, teh war with the wrewolves...). Unfortunately, in this one as the story develop they just reduce that to a single thread that for me lacked something.
It was still good but it didn't go beyond that...
But anyway, still a good series, still beautifully shot and still entertaining...
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