It’s either terrible or genius, or possibly both.
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Alternatively, there’s one bit where the main characters seem to express themselves in a quick-cut series of heavy breaths and grunts. By rights that should be a problem, yet in something as fabulously trashy as Underworld it feels more expedient - they’re getting on with it, rather than being ponderous about the mythology, like much fantasy is wont to do. Some of these scenes are edited within an inch of their life, lines almost tripping over each other as they’re rushed on to the screen. Part of the entertainment comes from characters talking rather than just fighting, and we’re treated to some magnificently cheesy, overworked dialogue. This lax attitude to continuity could be irritating, but a counterargument might go that isn’t it better to ditch stuff that isn’t really working in favour of stuff that’s more entertaining? To achieve this it’s had to ignore an awful lot of the last film - not entirely, by any means, as it’s quite heavily based in some leftover plot points - but other parts have been completely glossed over. I mean, don’t expect House of Cards - it’s done at the level of the action B-movie this series is - but it’s kinda fun. This move also brings with it a degree of politicking among the vampires, which is kind of what I imagine a millennia-old secret society would be like. Now, they seem to have made something of an effort to get back to the ‘world’ of the first film, with extravagant vampire covens and underground Lycan forces, while also growing the series’ mythology by introducing us to new areas of vampiredom, primarily a Nordic coven. Since then the series has increasingly strayed away from that: the second film brought more traditional-style Eastern European countryside, the third was a medieval prequel, and the fourth was… kind of nothing-y, really. It certainly wasn’t wholly original - Blade had already done a similar concept and visually it owed a lot to The Matrix - but it was fresh enough. The first Underworld marked out somewhat-new territory when it hit screens in 2003 by taking fantasy/horror elements like vampire covens and werewolves and placing them in a modern urban environment, fighting more with guns than swords and teeth.
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