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Underworld: Evolution is a 2006 American action horror film[3] directed by Len Wiseman. The film is a sequel to the 2003 film, Underworld, and the second installment in the Underworld franchise. The plot follows Selene and Michael, again played by Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman, respectively, as they fight to protect the Corvinus bloodline from its hidden past.

Underworld: Evolution
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Len Wiseman
Screenplay by	Danny McBride
Story by	Len Wiseman Danny McBride
Based on	Characters created by Kevin Grevioux Len Wiseman Danny McBride
Produced by	Tom Rosenberg Gary Lucchesi David Coatsworth Richard Wright
Starring	Kate Beckinsale Scott Speedman Tony Curran Shane Brolly Steven Mackintosh Derek Jacobi Bill Nighy
Cinematography	Simon Duggan
Edited by	Nicolas Del Toth
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production company	Lakeshore Entertainment[1]
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing[1]
Release date	January 20, 2006 (2006-01-20)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States[1]
Language	English[1]
Budget	$45 million[2]
Box office	$113.4 million[2]

Plot

In 1202, an army led by the three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arrives at a village full of Werewolves and capture their target: Markus's twin brother, William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Despite Markus's defiance, Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.

In the present day, Markus awakens and kills regent Kraven. Alexander Corvinus, A.K.A Lorenz Macaro, the forefather to both the vampire and Lycan races, sends in a team of "cleaners" to investigate the aftermath from the battle in the Lycans' lair. Macaro examines Viktor's corpse and finds a metal disc inside; it is the match to a pendant originally worn by Sonja. Michael obtained the other half of the pendant after the death of Lucian.

Meanwhile, vampiress Selene takes Michael to a safe house. Using the knowledge obtained from Kraven's blood, Markus tracks the pair down and attacks them, but they escape and hide in a warehouse. That night, Selene recalls seeing the pendant as a child, but does not know its significance. Wanting to know why Markus wants it, the two travel to the hideout of the exiled vampire historian Andreas Tanis

Tanis reveals that Markus was the first vampire, one of the three sons of Macaro, the first immortal. Markus was bitten by a bat and metamorphosed into a vampire, while William was bitten by a wolf and became a werewolf. The third son remained human and gave rise to a line of mortal descendants including Michael, who turned into the first Lycan-Vampire hybrid. The first werewolves created by William were entirely animal and unable to return to their human forms. Due to William's destructiveness, Markus approached Viktor, then a dying mortal warlord, and offered to turn him and his army into vampires in exchange for tracking down and stopping William, and in destroying those he had infected. Tanis further reveals that Selene's father was the architect who built William's prison and that the pendant is the key. Viktor killed Selene's family because they knew the prison's location, but made Selene into a vampiress with the location of the prison encoded in her blood. After Selene and Michael leave, Markus arrives and drinks Tanis' blood to learn Selene and Michael's location, killing Tanis.

Selene and Michael visit Macaro, who refuses to assist Selene in killing his sons. Markus arrives, fights Michael and impales him. He learns the location of William's prison by drinking Selene's blood, mortally wounds his father and obtains the other half of the pendant. He intends, with William, to rule the world as the god-like master of a race of vampire-Lycan hybrids. On Macaro's bidding, Selene drinks his blood, enhancing her physical strength and healing abilities to a level equivalent to that of a hybrid. Afterwards, Macaro blows up his ship, killing himself.

Selene, aboard Macaro's helicopter, leads his cleaners to the prison to kill Markus, who has already freed William. In the ensuing battle, William bites the cleaners, turning them into werewolves. Michael, presumed dead, awakens and joins the fight, killing William by ripping his head off. Selene battles Markus and kills him by pushing him into the rotor blades of the cleaners' crashed helicopter.

After the battle, Selene realizes that Alexander's blood granted her hybrid abilities, including being immune to the effects of sunlight, which is lethal to vampires.

Cast

Reception

Box office

The film opened at #1 on 3,207 screens with a weekend box office (January 20–22, 2006) of $26.9 million, for an average of $8,388 per theater.[4] As of March 12, 2006, the film had grossed a total of $62.3 million in the United States and $111.3 million worldwide.[4]

Critical response

As of August 31, 2021, Underworld: Evolution has a 17% overall approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 104 reviews. The site's consensus reads, "A visual and aural assault on the senses, this vampire-werewolf sequel makes a lot of noise and features a heavy-handed, overly convoluted story."[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[6] A few scenes of the film were shown in a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, in July 2005; however, these scenes did not contain any plot spoilers of the script, with attendees only being informed about the new hybrids by production designer Patrick Tatopoulos. The preview was well-received as hundreds of fans waited hours to see a clip of the film, as well as Kate Beckinsale and the other stars.[7]

Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times criticized the film's "steel-blue filter" and described it as "a monotonous barrage of computer-generated fur and fangs."[8] Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle began his review by saying, "you can tell that Underworld: Evolution is trying to be an artistic action-horror film, because every scene is bathed in the color blue," going on to say that the film is "an admirable attempt to test the boundaries of the genre," though is confusing and not fun to watch.[9]

Music

Soundtrack

Underworld: Evolution – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album
Released	January 10, 2006
Genre	Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-hardcore, industrial, nu metal, metalcore, gothic metal
Length	62:19
Label	Lakeshore
Producer	Skip Williamson, Brain McNelis & Len Wiseman
chronology
Underworld (2003) Underworld: Evolution – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006) Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[10]

Track listing

Score

Underworld: Evolution (Original Score)
Film score by Marco Beltrami
Released	February 28, 2006
Length	75:56
Label	Lakeshore Records
Producer	Skip Williamson, Brain McNelis & Len Wiseman
Underworld film series score album chronology
Underworld (2003) Underworld: Evolution (Original Score) (2006) Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

Home media

The film was released on DVD on June 6, 2006,[11] and later^[when?] on Blu-ray.[12]

Prequel and sequel

The next film in the series, the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, depicted the background history that led to the Vampire-Lycan War of the first and second films. A fourth and fifth film, the sequels to Underworld: Evolution, titled Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, were released on January 20, 2012 and January 6, 2017, respectively.[13]

See also

• Vampire film

References

External links

• Official website
• Underworld: Evolution at IMDb
• Evolution title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Underworld: Evolution at AllMovie
• Underworld: Evolution at Box Office Mojo
• Underworld: Evolution at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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- [en] Underworld: Evolution

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[ru] Другой мир: Эволюция

«Другой мир II: Эволюция» (англ. Underworld: Evolution) — американский боевик-ужастик 2006 года[7] режиссёра Лена Уайзмана. Фильм является продолжением фильма 2003 года «Другой мир» и второй частью франшизы «Другой мир». Сюжет следует за Селеной и Майклом, которых снова играют Кейт Бекинсейл и Скотт Спидмен соответственно, когда они борются за защиту родословной Корвинуса от ее скрытого прошлого.

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