So here is the second movie in the Underworld franchise. It's slightly better than the first, if only because the focus has switched from just Selene (Kate Beckinsale) to Selene and Michael (Scott Speedman) as a couple, even though they've only really known each other for about three days, according to the in-film timeline.Beginning right where the first film left off, Selene and Michael find themselves targeted by the surviving elder, Marcus (Tony Curran), after some werewolf blood dripped on him while in stasis. His brother, William (Brian Steele), has been locked in a prison for centuries as the progenitor of the lycan breed. From the blood memories he ingested, Marcus knows that Selene has the key to William's prison as well as the childhood memory of its location and he is willing to do anything to get those things. Selene knows that releasing William, who differed from his more famous descendant Lucian (Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film) in that once he bit he stayed furry, will be the beginning of a plague of lycanthropes. To stop him, she must uncover a deep secret of the vampires.
This is still a relatively shitty film. The plot is paper-thin and relies a lot on panic instead of reason. For example, the first time she sees Marcus, she runs even though she objectively had no reason to at that point. It wasn't clear that Marcus knew anything about Viktor's (Sir Also-Not-Appearing-in-This-Film) death and the vampire factions are so split, it would have made more sense for her to look to him as an ally.
Also, the words "gratuitous nudity" apply here. I generally have no problem with nudity, even when it doesn't relate directly to the plot, but this was just silly. It's less than a minute but its very brevity argues against its inclusion. There's just no point other than to keep men's attention.
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