{"id":813,"date":"2003-09-28T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T19:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-813.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/09\/28\/underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Underworld<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires and werewolves fight each other a centuries-old battle to the death, with guns and lots of slo-mo, post-Matrix pseudo-goth pseudo-cool.  There&#8217;s nothing wrong with doing a new take on old legends, but unfortunately nothing here <em>is<\/em> new.  There are too many sub-rivalries and sub-enmities going on, with no strong central antagonistic relationship.  The screenplay makes a molehill out of the primary plot twist, and it doesn&#8217;t even have any decent existential angst going for it.   It <em>does<\/em> have Kate Beckinsale in a black PVC catsuit (mmm&#8230;worth a bonus star), but even that&#8217;s not enough to save <i>Underworld<\/i> from the scrapheap.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires and werewolves fight each other a centuries-old battle to the death, with guns and lots of slo-mo, post-Matrix pseudo-goth pseudo-cool. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with doing a new take on old legends, but unfortunately nothing here is new. There are too many sub-rivalries and sub-enmities going on, with no strong central antagonistic relationship. The screenplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_2_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}