Watch Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Full Movie Online
The third installment in the Underworld franchise winds clocks back to the dark ages to trace the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
Here we see the origins of Lucien (Michael Sheen) the first lycanthorpe who has the ability to change into his werewolf form at will, his forbidden love with vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra) and his fight for freedom against his vampire rulers led by Victor (Bill Nighy).
Stepping down from the director’s chair after making the underwhelming but action packed Die Hard 4.0, Len Wiseman leaves the directing reigns to his production designer Patrick Tatopoulos who in doubt has garnered enough experience over the years working on the likes of Stargate and Silent Hill. And the French wizard gives his best efforts to make this rather limp and unnecessary prequel.
The film bears most of the same flaws that burdened the first two installments such as extremely dark lighting, choppy editing and the same camp and bombast tone that never changes throughout. Fortunately the director allows the story to run with a more coherent sense of storytelling.
Watch Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Full Movie Online
The film does have one ace card though with the always charismatic Micheal Sheen a highlight of the first Underworld and here as the films main attraction displaying the right balance of empathy and ferocity whilst been a surprisingly convincing action lead.
Rhona Mitra does her best with what material she is given as Lucien’s doomed lover Sonja. Mitra who was last been sexy and kicking ass in Rob Marshall’s god awful mess Doomsday, is once again convincing as an action heroin but she just doesn’t have the magic or indeed the looks of Kate Beckinsale (Who is really missed in this film). Sadly, nothing good at all can be said for Bill Nighy whose camp delivery of ever line goes into overdrive here until you almost wonder if he is purposefully parodying himself.
But the worst offender of Rise of the Lycans are the special effects abandoning all classic effects of the past for some truly shoddy CGI (even the blood is CGI), the score is forgettable whilst most of the action is tame at best with only the swordplay making any impact. The whole effect with exception to some of the cast give the impression that Rise of the Lycans should have been a straight to DVD release and will only satisfy diehard fans of the originals looking for more of the same.
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Watch Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Full Movie Online
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