Underworld Evolution Download

Underworld: Evolution Download

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene (Beckinsale), a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael (Speedman), the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Beginning where Underworld finished, Selene and Michael are on the run from the vampires. Being the cause of Viktor's death, Selene can only hope to plea to the last remaining elder, Marcus. However, Marcus has already awakened and has become a more powerful creature than before. Now his only remaining goal is to awaken his Lycan brother, William from his eternal imprisonment. With time running out, Selene and Michael must piece together the final clues to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines and stop Marcus before it's too late.
I will openly admit that I wasn&#39;t blown away with the first Underworld movie; however, I was willing to watch the sequel in hopes that it would develop and improve upon the first. Sadly, I was disappointed. As the plot has already been covered by others who have seen the movie, I shall dispense with summaries and discuss the film as a film. As with the first one, I found the rather bleached-blue film style annoying, although one could make the argument that this is an artistic choice. Beyond that, though, the story seemed weak and more a vehicle for action than a premise for a movie.<br/><br/>There were several inconsistencies or merely weak points that prevented a strong storyline. (Spoilers may follow.) For example, the ending of the movie suggests that Selina, by drinking the blood of Alexander Corvinus, has now become some sort of either super-vampire or a hybrid herself. The final scene of the movie sees her standing in sunlight. There is no explanation and very little to set up an explanation in the rest of the film. Second, the love scene between Selina and Michael was absolutely nothing more than a gratuitous sex scene. It did nothing to further the story and might I add that a storage box seems like a rather uncomfortable place for sex. Third, the back-story of the brothers and the tension between father and sons was poorly developed to the point that I could barely keep names straight. There are numerous other points that I could make, but I think readers have probably understood my impression of the movie by this point.<br/><br/>All of that said, the film seemed to please fans of the first Underworld, so I suppose it fulfilled its purpose. I rented the movie and found myself so bored with it that I ended up signing online and surfing the web to keep from falling asleep through the end. Thus, I probably missed a lot of the action that seemed to be the main purpose of the movie. The one redeeming factor of this film was that the actors did a pretty admirable job given the script they were handed.
Underworld Evolution picks up where the previous movie left off. For viewers that have not seen the first movie, please view it before watching this sequel. Without the background of the first movie, the plot of this sequel will just end up confusing the viewer. Evolution does a very good job of explaining and answering a lot of the questions that came up after the last movie and further expands the movie watcher&#39;s knowledge of the Underworld Universe. Kate Beckingsale&#39;s Selene looks as good as ever and is definitely the main draw for the movie. The character of Michael, played by Scott Speedman, however was under utilized. I think a lot more could have been done for Michael, but throughout the movie he just seems to tag along. Plus his acting was weak. Marcus and William are a good pair of characters and prove to be great villains. The actions sequences are on par with the first movie, although there is not as memorable as the one in the first movie in which Selene shoots through the floor in order to escape. If you enjoyed the first movie, then you&#39;ll like this movie as well.
There's a ton of backstory behind Underworld: Evolution, which gets slightly denser and rowdier than its predecessor, but it's ultimately all in the service of a nigh-endless series of numbing, mechanical battles in which snarling protagonists and CGI monsters shoot, claw, and bloodily eviscerate each other. In other words, it's "Underworld," but more of it.
With the newly-awakened Marcus (<a href="/name/nm0192889/">Tony Curran</a>) on their tail, Selene (<a href="/name/nm0000295/">Kate Beckinsale</a>) and Michael (<a href="/name/nm0005454/">Scott Speedman</a>) go in search of vampire historian Andreas Tanis (<a href="/name/nm0533599/">Steven Mackintosh</a>) in order to learn why Marcus so desperately wants Selene and a pendant that she has possessed since childhood. Tanis puts Selene in touch with Alexander Corvinus (<a href="/name/nm0001394/">Derek Jacobi</a>), now calling himself Lorenz Macaro, who explains that the pendant is a key to the prison where William (<a href="/name/nm0824498/">Brian Steele</a>) has been confined for over half of a millenium. Now to find William before Marcus can set him free. Underworld: Evolution is based on a screenplay by American screenwriters Kevin Grevioux, Danny McBride, and Len Wiseman (who also directed the movie). The movie was subsequently novelized by American science fiction writer Greg Cox. The movie is the second in the Underworld series, having been preceded by <a href="/title/tt0320691/">Underworld (2003)</a> (2003) and followed by <a href="/title/tt0834001/">Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)</a> (2009), <a href="/title/tt1496025/">Underworld Awakening (2012)</a> (2012) and <a href="/title/tt3717252/">Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)</a> (2016). Except for a short jump prior to the opening credits that goes back into history to show the capture of William Corvinus (<a href="/name/nm0824498/">Brian Steele</a>), Evolution picks up right where Underworld left off. Michael is mortally wounded by Kraven (<a href="/name/nm0111274/">Shane Brolly</a>), and Selene bites him on Lucian&#39;s (<a href="/name/nm0790688/">Michael Sheen</a>) suggestion that &quot;half-vampire half-Lycan are stronger than both.&quot; Viktor (<a href="/name/nm0631490/">Bill Nighy</a>) catches up to them, pulls Selene off Michael, and tosses him through a wall into a pool of water where he begins to transform again, this time incorporating his new vampire blood. Selene confronts Viktor with the fact that it was he, not the Lycans, who killed her family, and Viktor admits it, adding that he thinks he&#39;s given Selene a greater gift by turning her into a vampire but bemoans the fact that he&#39;s going to have to kill her just as he did his own daughter Sonja. As Viktor turns on Selene, Michael jumps him. Selene grabs a sword and goes after Viktor, beheading him. She then picks up the necklace that Viktor dropped after taking it from Lucian. The final scene scans the Great Hall, showing Marcus&#39; tomb with Singe&#39;s (<a href="/name/nm0496441/">Erwin Leder</a>) Lycan blood spilling into it. In a voiceover, Selene says, Though I cannot predict the future, the consequences of this night will reverberate through the halls of both great coven for many years to come. Two vampire elders have been slain, one by my own hand. Soon Marcus will take the throne, and a tide of anger and retribution will spill out into the night. Differences will be set aside, allegiances will be made, and soon I will become the hunted. Alexander Corvinus was a Hungarian warlord in the 5th century whose village was ravaged by plague. Alexander had a rare (extremely rare) blood abnormality that gave him the ability to mold the sickness to his benefit within his own body. From this, he was granted superhuman strength and immortal life. Later, he fathered three sons. All three sons carried the same gene as Alexander, but in a dormant state. One son remained human and died a mortal death, passing down the hidden gene through his bloodlines. The other two—William and Marcus—were bitten by wolf and by bat, respectively, becoming the first werewolf and vampire. The movie involves many flashbacks (providing background information on the characters). In the original Underworld, Selene is exactly 121 years old. This number appeared on promotional pamphlets distributed before the film&#39;s release, and the novelization repeatedly states that she is only a little more than a century old. For Underworld: Evolution, however, this number is changed to roughly 600. Selene states in the opening monologue for Evolution, &quot;For six centuries, I was a loyal soldier of the Vampire clan.&quot; These creatures, rather than mythology-based, are scientifically-based. So some rules, such as crosses, holy water, and reflection (which are often Dracula-specific anyway) are regarded as false traits. Marcus is a descendant of Alexander Corvinus and is capable of absorbing all three races (lycan, vampire, and human) without a fatal result. Marcus was already a vampire (albeit without the wings), and when Singe (the Lycan doctor killed by Viktor&#39;s deadly punch) died outside, his lycan blood went into Markus&#39;s crypt. Marcus then opened his eyes and found himself a hybrid. Selene brought Singe to Viktor to explain why they were after Michael. Singe explained that they needed a member of Alex Corvinus&#39;s line to mix the vampire and lycan bloodlines together. After a few more japes, Viktor split his skull, and he bled into Marcus&#39;s tomb. Selene saw it. The lycan&#39;s blood woke Marcus, the direct descendent of Alex Corvinus. She would remember the Singe encounter and put two and two together. What type of hybrid a person turned into depended on what species they were first. Michael was turned into a Lycan first. When he absorbed the Vampire strain of the virus, he turned into a Lycan-dominant hybrid (with more wolf-like traits). Marcus was already a Vampire. Therefore, when he absorbed the Lycan strain from Singe at the end of the first movie, he turned into a Vampire-dominant hybrid with bat-like traits such as wings. Viktor lied about a lot of things. It was he, not the Lycans, who killed Selene&#39;s family. He&#39;s neither the oldest nor the strongest, as was said in the first movie. Marcus is the oldest and, in fact, is the one who turned Viktor. The sons of the Corvinus clan were not at all a myth. When vampires drink blood or get into a fight, their eyes turn icy blue or yellow . The effect is often referred to as &quot;vamping out.&quot; Now that Marcus has both keys and the knowledge of where the door lies, he opens it and finds William waiting. Selene leads the helicopter to where she remembers a secret passage into the prison and enters, along with a few backups. Once in, they hear the roar of a werewolf and meet up with William. Selene fires at William just as Marcus appears. Selene fires at Marcus, slowing him just long enough to get through the open door and close it behind her. Unfortunately, a bit of rock prevents the door from closing all the way. William catches up with Selene again. She fires at him repeatedly and blows up the cavern in which they are located. Suddenly, all the backups killed by William begin to turn into werewolves and converge on Selene. MIchael leaps from the helicopter into the fracas and helps Selene battle with William. However, Marcus has managed to get the door open, and he, too, joins the melee. The first thing he does is to grab on to a rope hanging from the helicopter and bring it tumbling down into the cavern where it catches on a catwalk and lies there, blades still spinning. Now it&#39;s Michael against William and Selene against Marcus. Eventually, Michael manages to behead William, and Selene shoves Marcus into the helicopter blades, tearing him to pieces. In the final scene, Selene realizes as the sun comes up that she is no longer burned by the light, thanks to Alexander Corvinus&#39;s blood. She and Michael embrace. In a voiceover, Selene says, A new chapter lies ahead. The line that divided the clans has now been blurred. Chaos and infighting are inevitable. All that is certain is that darkness is still ahead. But for now, for the first time, I look into the light with new hope. The blood she drank from Alexander Corvinus allowed for a new rebirth and strength among vampires. After drinking his blood, it made her system strong enough to bear the sun, which makes her a hybrid herself. As far as vampire weaknesses go, she may be totally indestructible. No. As explained by Tanis; When Marcus originally offered Viktor immortality, he warned him that if Marcus should die, all in his bloodline will follow him to the grave. He also said that if William were to die, all Lycans would die as well. However, Tanis points out that this was strictly a deception on Marcus&#39; part in order to keep Viktor from killing William or plotting against Marcus. &quot;Red Tape&quot; by Agent Provocateur a5c7b9f00b