Underworld: Evolution

Underworld: Evolution: Kate Beckinsale

Underworld: Evolution

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly

Tribes of vampires and werewolves battle for supremacy among the undead in this follow-up to the horror hit Underworld. Tracing the bloody history of the ongoing war between the Death Dealers, a gang of upper-crust vampires, and the Lycans, a pack of scruffy werewolves, Underworld: Evolution finds beautiful Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and hunky Lycan Michael (Scott Speedman) exploring their own pasts as well as those of their comrades in hope of uncovering the secrets of this centuries-old conflict. As Selene and Michael deal with their bloody legacy as well as their forbidden romance, the violence between the Death Dealers and the Lycans escalates in what may be the final face-off between them.

Story

The movie opens in the year 1202 AD with an army led by three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arriving at a Lycan ravaged village. After killing several Lycans, Viktor and Amelia capture their target: Markus's brother William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.

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The story then continues the present-day timeline, after the events of the first film. Selene takes Michael to a safe house so that she can return to the mansion to confront Kraven. She knows Kraven intends to kill Markus and plans to stop him. However, Singe's blood has already awakened Markus, who wipes out Kraven and his men, and destroys the mansion. He learns Selene and Michael's location from camera surveillance of various safe houses and leaves to track them down. Markus confronts Selene and Michael, who evade him and hide in a warehouse, and have passionate sex.

Lorenz Macaro, an elderly and imposing man, sends in a team of "Cleaners" to investigate the aftermath from the final battle in the first movie. When Macaro examines Viktor's body he finds a metal disk attached to his ribcage which is the mate to Sonja's pendant, which Selene and Michael possessed. Now knowing that the pendant is of some importance to Markus, Michael and Selene set out to solve its mystery. Selene recalls that she'd seen it as a child, but doesn't know its significance. To find answers, they travel to the hideout of an exiled vampire historian, Andreas Tanis.

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Selene and Michael confront Tanis, who reveals that Markus, not Viktor, was the first vampire. One of the two sons of Alexander Corvinus, he was bitten by a bat and became a vampire; his twin brother, William Corvinus, was bitten by a wolf and became a Lycan. The first lycans created by him are entirely animal and unable to take human form again. Due to William's wanton destructiveness, Markus approached Viktor, a warlord dying of old age, and offered to turn him and his army into immortal vampires in exchange for tracking down and stopping William. Markus intended to capture his brother and tame him, but Viktor betrays Markus and orders William locked away forever. Viktor does not kill the brothers because he believes doing so would result in the immediate extinction of all other vampires and Lycans. Tanis also reveals that Selene's father was the architect who built William's prison and that the pendant is a key. Due to the fact that her family knew of its location, and the recent escape of Lucian, Viktor feared that Lucian would use Sonja's pendent to free William, so Victor killed them and then turned Selene into a vampire. Tanis then refers Selene and Michael to Lorenz Macaro for help. Shortly after they leave, Markus arrives and questions Tanis, killing him.

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Selene and Michael go to see Lorenz Macaro, whom Selene realizes is actually Alexander Corvinus, the first immortal and father of Markus and William. He reveals he has devoted his life to containing the vampire-lycan war away from the mortal world. However, Alexander refuses to help kill Markus. Markus attacks and learns the location of William's hidden prison by drinking Selene's blood, killing Michael and attacking Alexander to obtain the other half of the pendant. Selene drinks Alexander's blood, giving her the power to fight William and Markus.

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Selene leads the cleaners to the prison to confront and destroy Markus, but he has already freed William. A battle ensues in which William bites the Cleaners and begins turning them into Lycans. Michael, presumed to be dead inside his bodybag, suddenly regenerates and joins the fight in his Hybrid form. Michael ultimately kills William, while Selene kills Markus by pushing him into the spinning blades of a crashed helicopter. It is revealed that Selene can now stand in the sun. As the film ends, Selene narrates that she fears the days ahead, but is nevertheless hopeful.

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