How bad can a movie be, if the most redeeming thing it has is a hot leather jumpsuit worn by the heroine?
Bad.
Let’s see if I can get this straight.
This movie picks up where the first one ends — same night, same people, same werewolf / vampire fight. Lucian, the leader of the Lycans, is dead. Viktor, the powerful old dude, is dead. Kraven is down, but not out. And blood from a dead werewolf guy, Singe, is dripping into the sleeping chamber of Marcus, which will wake him.
And Selene and Michael are on the run, wanted by both sides and surely going to die. They’re such a cute couple.
Marcus comes around, and kills Kraven. With a lot more blood and gore than in the first movie — and that’s something of a theme with this movie. More blood. More gore. More than needed. Marcus decides to clean up the mess, now that Viktor is come. Viktor, who had been masquerading for centuries as the source of all of the vampires, when really it was Marcus — Marcus with the vampires, William his twin brother with the werewolves.
And now, Marcus wants to free his twin brother and become a god.
The trick is finding out the location. And this is where is gets hokier. In this movie, memories can be passed through the blood. Selene, when she was young, saw where William’s tomb was, and so the expectation is that Marcus is going to want to bite her, to learn that.
Blah, blah, blah, Selene and Michael end up killing Marcus and William, and along the way their father, Alexander Corvinus, shows up and he dies, too. Selene got a turbo-charge shot from Alexander Corvinus, the first immortal, and the movie ends with the two of them as the last two standing — Michael the hybrid, and Selene the vampire who can walk in the sunlight.
The first movie was OK, a novelty. A hot chick in leather, doing kung fu and shooting everything, is only good for about two hours worth of entertainment. So, the first movie was not great, but OK. But this one, well, it more or less sucks. The story is weak, the characters blah. The gore is abundant and over the top, more than is needed. And the fighting? It’s clear that someone saw The Matrix too many times.
This grand grasp at a bridging story across two films fails. Into vampires? OK, see this. Otherwise, steer clear, for sure.
