Underworld: Evolution looks and plays exactly like a video game - which is, of course, exactly what I wanted. Nearly every minute drenched in blue and black, and with cracking action sequences and back story revelations coming hard on each other's heels throughout, it never slows from the get go. There isn't much to it (although it does have Derek Jacobi up its sleeve), and the actor who plays Michael, Scott Speedman, is still a curiously charisma-free zone, counter-balancing Kate Beckinsale's dramatic (if not exactly demanding) 'hot vampire death dealer' turn, but the film does what it promises.
(Underworld)
