Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is the third installment of the movie Underworld and said to be the prequel as well.

The start of the vampire-werewolves war began when Viktor (Bill Nighy) the ruthless king of the vampires who led a raid to kill all werewolves. But Viktor happened to discover an abandoned baby, he took the baby home and took care of it as his slave. The baby grows up to be Lucian (Michael Sheen) who used to be the first werewolf able to take human form. The blood drinker's leader planned to create a race of werewolves through Lucian's bloodline. As Lucian grows up at the vampires home, Sonja (Rhona Mitra) the beautiful and fiery daughter of Viktor found love and was attracted to Lucian. In the movie it was revealed that Viktor has a tacit relationship with the humans. He agreed to protect the humans from the wolves in exchange for a title. Sonja works for her father too, she escorted the human nobles but unfortunately she was attacked by the Lycans. Lucian's reaction immediately arises, he stole a sword, causing him to engage in a fight with his own kind. Viktor despite of everything didn't acknowledge Lucian's bravery. When Viktor discovers the illegal relationship between his daughter Sonja and Lucian, he hurriedly imprison his own daughter. Lucian escapes but when he heard about what happen to his love he set out to rescue Sonja. The war between Sonja, Lucian and Viktor together with the other death dealers began. The fight ended when Sonja confessed to her father that she is pregnant. Viktor was shocked as well as Lucian. Sonja is sentenced to die and Lucian was forced to witnessed her death. The poor lyvan attempts more further escapes and finally he faced Viktor in a fight. He knocked Viktor down by forcing his sword through Viktor's mouth and head and let the body fall into the water.

The perquel which ging back 1,000 years and deatailing the rise of the breed of werewolves known as Lycans brought a twist to the first two Underworld movie. I found the movie enchanting because of the two actors; Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy. Who they both deliberately possessed their role to the highest level. Nighy is very natural to his acting and gesture (as if he really a vampire) while Sheen takes his monster role seriously. On the other hand Rhona Mitra, the only female lead character in the movie dilivered a great action in her role as Sonja. She was on the go especially in the fights scenes. The coolest part of the movie is the transformation of the werewolves. The soun effects that is used is trembling especially when Lucian transformed. It was unbelievable, you can almost think it was true.

Blood, blood and blood. There are so much blood spilled in the entire movie. It is very disgusting but there is no disgusting as annoying for the too much slavery. The movie comes up with this animal harrassment and molestation. The sex scene is quite amazing, Lucian and Sonja shared a soft but torrid love scene (not good for minors). Though this is not surprising, their love story is the root of the war.

All in all the movie will show you the impossible to possible. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is directed by Patrick Tatapoulos brought to you by Screen Gems Production and Lakeshore Entertainment.

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