Rarely do movie prequels are made better than the original or any sequels. But Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is an exception. It has more epic action, more emotion, and more tragedy than the first two.

From the first motion picture, we were exposed to the hatred between Viktor and Lucian. It drew our interest and we wanted to see more. Rightly so, fans spoke out in various on the web movie forums and generated enough buzz for the filmmakers to give us this delight of a motion picture.

In Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the moviemakers gave us things that we wanted to see:

- Lucian as a ferocious lycan,
- Viktor as an iron-handed and ruthless vampire warlord,
- Werewolves and vampires pitted in an epic battle, and
- Why Viktor sired Selene into vampirehood.

1) Lucian as a ferocious lycan

Lucian was a character we wanted to know more from the first motion picture. Michael Sheen did a great job creating a hero in Lucian. Born of servitude, we wanted to know why and how Lucian rose to the top of the lycan order to fight vampires. In Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, we finally saw why Victor and the vampires feared him.

2) Viktor as an iron-handed and ruthless vampire warlord

In Rise of the Lycans, we saw Viktor as a warlord of death. As a ruthless ruler, he maintained the uneasy truce between humans and vampires. Viktor drew tithings from the local townships to protect them from the growing population of uncontrollable werewolves who were the predecessors of lycans and the direct offsprings of William (from the second motion picture, Underworld: Evolution). More importantly, he was also bent on maintaining vampire supremacy over all that lived.

3) Werewolves and vampires pitted in an epic battle

Another great thing about this motion picture was that it gave us an epic battle between the werewolves and the vampires. The shootout we saw in the initial scenes of the first Underworld was merely a skirmish. In this motion picture, we saw an army of vampires defend their castle from a horde of savage werewolves.

4) Why Viktor sired Selene into vampirehood

One character we missed in this motion picture, however, was Selene, played by Kate Beckinsale in the previous two movies. That’s ok. The story called for it. In this movie, we learned why Viktor took to her so much. Selene reminded Viktor of his dear Sonja, the daughter he had condemned to death. And Rhona Mitra delivered brilliantly. Sonja and Selene would look great together as leather clad twins.

All in all, I give this movie a 5 out of 5 and shoot it up to the top of the Underworld series. As a fan, I hope there are future Underworld movies to keep us intrigued. This time, I’d like to see the back story behind Lucian going underground.

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