Kate Beckinsale casts off the kudos of classy costume drama fancy & Friendship to slip back into black leather for a fifth timeA persistent surreal silliness lends some interest to this latest film in the interminable Underworld action vampire-horror franchise series: the fifth,in fact. It’s the franchise that simply refuses to die. Kate Beckinsale reprises her kinkily black-leather-clad role of the vampire Selene. She and the other vampires are now threatened by the lupine Lycans, who do lots of CGI transformation from human to beast and back again. They are led by the malign Marius (Tobias Menzies); Selene has on her side the hunky creature of the shadows David (Theo James), and yet faces treachery of the outrageously décolleté sort from Semira (Lara Pulver),who is rocking a series of revealing outfits. Charles Dance comes on, selling his preposterous lines with absolute conviction and professionalism and giving everything a residual Game-of-Thrones vibe.
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Source: theguardian.com