Underworld.

I had no expectations on this when I caught it on TV and came out quite happily surprised, so I thought I'd post something about it.

The concept of the war between werewolves and vampires is a good one, with a lot of cool factor attched, but everything I read about Underworld when it came out was that it was nothing really special, so I didn't bother trying to see it.

Anyway now I have I can say that although it's far from perfect, it's not without qualities.
1st and foremost, I enjoyed the story (more elaborate than expected, with a nice twist that changes the pespective on the story) and the background given (the vampire elders, slavery of the lycans, etc).
The movie is also really nice looking, the gothic atmosphere very well rendered and the poses you expect are all there! The actors are not specially good (and haven't heard of any oscars given, so... ;) ), but good looking in the context and therefore appropriate.
Actually 1 standout: Bill Nighy as the @ss-kicking Viktor. One word: Cool. :)

The only let down is really that the action doesn't really delivers. Apart from bits of the final showdown (with Bill Nighy!) it's quite bland, which is a shame really.
Somehow, it's really good looking but not quite so when images are moving. It's far from horrible, but nothing groudbreaking. I think one of the main problem of werewolves movies is to make the werewolves. It's always tricky to make them believable so I guess they couldn't really go all the way in fight scenes, which you could have expected epic, but unfortunately aren't...

But overall it didn't spoilt it for me, so I'll actually try to see the sequel now...