Underworld
Screen Gems | Release Date: September 19, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
15
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
A hollow, relentless mess. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Plays less like a novel re-imagining of a classic if campy narrative than a drearily self-conscious exercise in Know Your Film References. Read full review
30
Film ThreatKevin Carr
There's too much pretension in this film. Lots of intense stares into the camera. Lots of uncomfortably hip clothes. Lots of pompous names for themselves. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
125 minutes is a long time to stare at a movie that's basically in bleached blue-and-white with occasional splotches of brick red. The palette reinforces the monotony of the storyline. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Not since "Battlefield Earth" pitted overacting, nine-foot-tall Psychlos against puny man-animals has there been an interspecies match-up this perversely uninteresting. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Neither side is worth rooting for in this ridiculous blood feud, which features some of the year's most laughable dialogue. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Could use script transfusion, or at least a few quarts of levity. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
"Your incompetence is most taxing," says the chief vampire (Bill Nighy). A line that pretty much nails this rusty Blade. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAlex Pappademas
Speedman's such a nonentity here I worried that the theater air-conditioning would blow him off the screen. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It needs a wooden stake AND a silver bullet through its script. Read full review
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