Underworld: Rise of The Lycans (2009)

The 3rd film in the Underworld series and one that is a prequel that shows the origin story of Lucian, who was the antagonist of the first film. It pretty much just shows what we see and hear about in the first movie and pads it out to a needless 90 minute movie. But these films have never wanted to amount to more than mindless escapism and I still quite enjoyed this. The acting is still pretty decent which is expectec when you have Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy, the effects are pretty good and there is a nice bit of action and gore. The old period setting is also a nice change of pace/though nothing particularly special and the story holds no surprises and goes as expected, especially if you have seen the first movie. Overall its not up to par with the first two movies but I still find it to be somewhat enjoyable for what it gives us. ***