March 6, 2006

• I caught Underworld: Decapitation, errr, I mean Underworld: Evolution at Eng Wah Suntec City on Saturday. My buddy did not enjoy it, but who the hell cares that he did not when I did? Especially when I paid for popcorn and the drinks. He can drag me to some random movie next week (thankfully he already saw Brokeback Mountain) and have me bitch about it.

  
  

  I loved it for one reason and it is spelt K-A-T-E B-E-C-K-I-N-S-A-L-E. She was simply stunning. I appreciate gorgeous Caucasian women but my friend does not. Too bad. Oh yes, and there was the small matter of the beautiful aesthetics too. Another friend (who did not watch the movie with me) and I both concurred that the scenery was splendid.

  
  

  Anyway, we almost missed the show to begin with. We tried to squeeze out some time for dinner before the show but the cab ride dashed that by taking more than half an hour due to a traffic jam. As we booked the tickets online, we thought they would have been sold away and actually asked for tickets for another movie instead. When only the seats in the first two rows were available then I casually enquired about the tickets purchased online. I guess it qualified as an online purchase since I was told the amount was debited immediately, as compared to the systems of other cinema companies. Since less than ten minutes of the show had elapsed, we collected the tickets and rushed in.

  
  

  Our first scene was the annihilation of a bunch of men, with the last poor soul losing his head, literally. That about summed up the entire film, a bucket of blood here, a severed limb there. Some of the violence made sense, some of it did not. In the final fight scene, Michael and William were engaged in a tough battle and out of nowhere, Michael just rips William head off (and of course William dies). Len Wiseman probably pondered, ere a tough one, how do I kill off this werewolf when he just doesn die and the helicopter blades are reserved for Marcus?shredding?? got bored and decided to have Michael behead William with his bare hands.

  
  

  That about it, I will not give too much away. Kate Beckinsale in latex might be the only reason to stump up for the ticket, but it sure is a compelling one.

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