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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM

Underworld : Blood Wars
By Rouén Robinson
Jan 18, 2017 - 9:19:19 AM

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Protect The Bloodline...

A highly skilled warrior of an elite cadre must fend off attacks from creatures she was trained to fight as well as a faction of her own kind. With the help of the only few people she can trust, she must put an end to the war that has raged for generations while protecting the anonymity of her daughter.

Selene is a Death Dealer who is on the run from a following of Lycans looking for the whereabouts of her daughter and Vampires looking for her to pay for crimes against them. David is a pure-born Vampire who has become Selene’s protégé and needs his father’s help to convince the other Vampire Elders that she has the best course of action in the raging war. Semira is the head of the most powerful Vampire coven in the area and has set plans in motion to become the most powerful supernatural being which will allow her to end the war. Marius is the new leader of the Lycans who has brought different clans together with the goal of wiping out strongholds of the Vampires in hopes of finding Selene’s daughter Eve.

Underworld : Blood Wars feels like the pilot to a proposed television series for the franchise. The main problem is that they talk so much about what has gone on in other films with reused footage and obvious stand-ins that you begin to feel like you are watching a clip show. The story of this new movie is not given a chance to properly shine as it is caught in the shadow of the canon of what has gone on before it. Kate Beckinsale & Theo James do a great job as the heroes we root for and Lara Pulver & Tobias Menzies do well as the villains we want to see get their comeuppance, but the lack of Scott Speedman & India Eisley seems to haunt every scene of this film. Anna Foerster does the best she can in her first directorial effort as she must make a film that caters to the fans that have stuck with the franchise since 2003. I don’t see this movie really reeling in new watchers, but at least the signature action of this film series is still there for the diehard fans.

I rate this movie a 2 out of 5.

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Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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