Whilst it was a good enough way to spend an evening, this recent Underworld offering was a little disappointing. Taking a massive detour away from the other two films in the series it's set in an undisclosed medieval time period, amongst a coven of vampires who discover the first lycans (werewolves with the ability to transform back into a human form) and use them as slaves.
The first lycan, Lucius, falls in love with the daughter of a vampire elder - And the story revolves around Lucius escaping, freeing the other lycans and is topped off by a rather tragic end.
Stop me if this sounds a bit familiar.
The reason it might is because the flashbacks present in the first two films (second two?) show exactly the same era and, in the case of the first one, the exact same story. However; these flash backs last seconds. Rise of the Lycans lasts 90 minutes.
Rise of the Lycans, whilst entertaining, feels stretched out - With no new ground covered and little new character development. The centre of the story - the romance between Lucius and Sonya - isn't really touched upon apart from what has come to be known to Jo as "that scene", so you don't really feel much pain for Lucius at the ending.
Bill Nighy is his usual outstanding self, and to say the guy's getting on a little managed to perform several exceedingly good fight scenes.
Plus his character survives being stabbed in the mouth by a longsword.
Viktor is freakin' tough.
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I could have sworn you were building up to comparing it to Romeo and Juliet.
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