Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

Personally, I thought the first Underworld film was absolutely terrible. It was an action film in which there was hardly any action. The dialogue was painful and the 'vampires' were an absolute joke, all whining on about rules and traditions.

I reluctantly went to see the second film. Although it practically suffered from all of the things that were wrong with the first film it was actually a minor improvement as it did raise its game considerably in the action stakes. Though Underworld 2 is a bad film, I still thought to myself that if Underworld 3 is as much of an improvement on Underworld 2 as Underworld 2 was on the first one, then we might finally have a half decent film.

Luckily, this is the case. We are still treated to fairly awful dialogue and the vampires still suck (no pun intended). But at least Michael Sheen is given a bit more meat to bite into and the story keeps things simple, allowing the action to move on quite nicely. So, quite a pleasant surprise really.

It's no classic, but it's entertaining, and if the next one is as much of an improvement on this one as this one is on the last then we might actually have an Underworld movie that I would consider buying on DVD.

6/10