Underworld: Evolution
Screen Gems | Release Date: January 20, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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3
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9
Negative:
9
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The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
The fascist undercurrents of this battle remain unexplored. Maybe one day, Hollywood will figure out that pouring acting-challenged starlets into black neoprene and sticking them in front of a blue screen do not a movie make. We can but hope. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBen Kenigsberg
There's no guiding power at work here; it's Evolution without a shred of intelligent design. Read full review
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L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
With her long, black coat and midair karate-chop skills, Selene is more Matrix-y Neo than Count Dracula, which may explain why this movie is so brutally un-fun. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The esteemed actor Derek Jacobi goes slumming as someone who pulls that metal badge from the chest of a cadaver. Shakespeare it's not. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Underworld Evolution has antecedents in literature ("Dracula"), film ("The Matrix") and song ("Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"). How does it rip off so much, yet learn so little? Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
Classic style over substance, with some gruesome-looking creatures and settings and non-stop shooting and biting (both the vampires and werewolves get their teeth into it). But, alas, at almost two hours, it is much ado about nothing. Read full review
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San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Humorless, confusing and not very fun to watch. Read full review
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EmpireJames Dyer
But for all her slinky, undead-chic looks, Beckinsale can't carry the film on curves alone and there's not much else here worthy of attention. Evolution's action sequences are as horribly bungled as its plot, resulting in a string of repetitive confrontations that feel toothless even by the last movie’s standards. Read full review
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SlateStephen Metcalf
Beckinsale is an elegant woman—before she was the Emma Peel of the undead, she was Jane Austen's Emma, and before she was Emma, she was passing A levels in German, French, and Russian literature—and all her stalking and seething keep the movie from being totally unwatchable. Read full review
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