Fresh and Exciting

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Death dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is alone in the world. Michael is long gone. Their daughter Eve is hidden away even from Selene herself. Both Lycans and Vampires are after her. Vampire David (Theo James) comes to her aid against the Lycans and she saves his life. The Eastern Coven is losing against the Lycans and Semira (Lara Pulver) argues to reinstate Selene as leader of the new untrained Death Dealers.The franchise first started going downhill with Michael being written off. There is a Romeo and Juliet aspect to the first movie that is missing from all the rest. It's a good thing to start with a previously segment to bring some of it back since I've forgotten most of the convoluted history. The franchise is running on fumes. It feels very repetitive. This is playing to an ever shrinking fan base and nobody else. People who haven't followed the movies have no reason to watch this.

I was really hoping Blood Wars to be that film that brought the series back to Underworld 1 fidelity...but, to be fair, what we have to remember about the first one that made it so special to us was it was a whole new kind of vampire movie and one that was directly competing with the Matrix movies. At the turn of the millennium this was a whole new breed of action movie. The second movie then kept it fresh by giving us a little history, by taking us to the origins of current affairs, which would later serve as the foundation of Under World - Rise of The Lycans...which was a fantastic film.Awakening is where everything fell apart for me, but Blood Wars admittingly did a great job picking up where that appallingly/ abhorrent movie left off. They should have just consolidated elements of Awakening and Blood Wars together, leaving out the futuristic and laboratory/ research stuff that made Awakening feel too Resident Evil. Don't get me wrong, if vampires were real our government/ various organizations would be attempting to capture them and study them, but I think fans prefer that vampires largely remain phantoms and folklore to the eyes of humans fortunate enough to not meet one, while keeping this entire feudal war an underground, or "underworld" battle that only some isolated humans from time-to-time fall victim to. A reality that exists within our own, but is largely a secret. Once you spill the existence of Lycans and Vampires out to the militarized world of humans, it loses that mystery/ special feel to it...and that's precisely what Awakening started. Sure, humans were involved in Underworld 2, but they were Corvinus' men e.g. they could keep a damn secret. It wasn't some corporation doing research on Dracula --I mean, Corvinus blood.As mentioned in my title, Blood Wars was more enjoyable the second time around, but I really could not get past what they did to Selene's lips. What a silly thing to be stuck on. So much so, that I am considering turning down the saturation of my TV the next time I watch it, in hopes it reduces the pink lip gloss effect. Kate is always a beauty to behold...but why lip gloss? And what's with the fur coat? Vampires don't get cold! Other than those cosmetic/ costume choices it is an alright film, but I've always felt the series should have only ever been 80% about Selene, and her battling the corruptions within the Coven/s, and vampires/ lycans wanting her blood, post-Corvinus. It never should have been about a Michael, nor a child. Maybe they could have ended the series with a child, an heiress to Selene's Corvinus imbued blood, thereby setting the franchise up for a whole new trilogy...but alas this was not the hand we were dealt and, instead, now we have a big empty hole where Michael should be...and I don't even like him!

I really loved the first 4 movies of the series. You could see that the producers put a lot of effort in them with long story lines, GOOD special effects, they created a story which blooms in all 4 movies. The 5 was OK, but this one, shame, it destroyed the whole underworld story and charm. Rushed it, screwed it completely, everything they ever managed to build was destroyed in this movie. I watched it till the end only because I am a fan of the Underworld series, shame on you. I don't understand, how can someone be so hypocrite and destroy the entire series with something like this? If I, with an amateur eye, should I say, saw that this was total bullshit, sorry for the language, how could an "experienced" Producer not see this? Totally disappointed. on my opinion its 3/10.

Like any guys from before the 90s, I was too a big fan of Beckinsale. There's no one can match her beauty, even to her age of today. That does not mean all her films are good. She has stopped doing good films a while ago. Every time when her films get released, I was hoping for her comeback like the old days, either a pure drama or an action film. No, not this film. It is what, the fifth in the franchise and the feature film debut for the directress of the television series.As always, worth watching for Kate. The story continued, and it focused on the remaining vampires fighting for their survival against their arch-rival, Lycans. That's where the Selene caught between. But this time, it was about looking for her daughter, Eve, who holds the key to the future of these immortals. So the action begins where everybody clashes, racing towards their destination.The first three were the good ones. This and the previous ones were downgraded the decent series. The makers are already working on the sixth. Definitely not expected, after seeing this particular film. But I hope it comes back to the original course with good story, actions, graphics and all. This was simply based on one liner, and the rest of the film leaned towards the stunt sequences. Okay to watch once, but I'm not sure worth of spending 90 minutes for it. So if you want to, then it is good to keep update to follow when the time comes to try the next ones.4/10