Reviews

The movie roles along nicely until the announcement of the benefactor in the blacksmith's shop. I expected Pip at that time to be a young man still working on his apprenticeship, yet the actor playing the role, John Mills, is 37 years old at the time.

Though closer in age to her character, Estella, played by Valerie Hobson, is 10 years beyond being a teenager at the time of filming as well.

John Mills is an excellent actor, but his casting in this movie, based on his mature features, certainly pushes this past the realm of believability.

Do marines really stand and fire when being fired upon by multiple enemy targets with automatic weapons? Do aluminum city buses and burned out Nissan Altimas really stop penetration by high-powered projectiles? They do in this movie. By mid-movie I was half expecting Claude Van Damme or Chuck Norris to come rolling in in a bullet-proof rag-top Jeep CJ-5. There is no such thing as "take cover" in this movie.

On the plus side, there are a lot of good explosions, but most of the cgi is mediocre at best. Michelle Rodriguez is also in the movie, so there is that, but if you are watching this movie to see her, she looks a lot hotter and has more believable lines in Machete.

The movie starts out OK, mostly because the aliens are so hard to kill, taking dozens of bullets without apparent injury, but by the end of the movie the soldiers can just about throw rocks at their heads to take them out.

The filming is choppy, but perhaps that is just for effect. The editing is also choppy in places, but perhaps the editors were forced to use Final Cut Pro X. All-in-all, I would not recommend this movie.

The acting in this movie is not too bad, the directing is probably OK, but the whole thing comes off badly as the post production work was terrible. The movie is disjointed and the transitions between scenes is absent.

Helena Bonham Carter's acting is very good in this movie. I didn't catch any mistakes on here part and seeing this movie as a good way to gauge some of her early work.

Micky Rourke could have done better I think. Either they gave him bad lines (or no lines in many cases) or he just didn't pull them off well. The part where he has sex with the snow is a little bizarre, but I think his way of converting people by just looking at them or giving them a piece of rotting food is even more so. He builds a church and the movie is half way through before he even prays in it, and he is not even leading the prayer. I was under the impression the real St Francis was a little more verbal.

I don't give this movie a high rating.

The movie was not that bad on a scale of vampire/werewolf movies, but I think it was a rip in the fact that the DVD has what looks an awful lot like Kate Beckinsale on the cover, and as she is listed in the credits you would expect her to actually be in the movie for more than 18 seconds.

I would have at least expected Kate to have a speaking part. Rhona Mitra is hot, but she isn't Kate, and Kate is one of the reasons I watched this movie. I just kept waiting for her to show up, while the whole time trying to figure out how they were going to somehow work her into the storyline. Well it seems they never did. A quick cameo without dialog is all we got, and the only reason they even bothered with that (because it adds nothing to the story) was to keep Kate Beckinsdale's name in the credits. It just seems deceptive.

It is certainly not as good as the previous two movies of the series, but when is a third sequel ever as good? Underworld without Kate is about the same as a Predator without Arnold.