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| Year: | 2003 |
| Rating: | 6.7(65532) |
| Listed in: | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Len Wiseman |
| Actors: | Scott Speedman Michael Sheen Shane Brolly Bill Nighy Erwin Leder Kate Beckinsale |
| "An immortal battle for supremacy." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Len Wiseman | |
| Actors | |
| Scott Speedman | as Michael Corvin |
| Michael Sheen | as Lucian |
| Shane Brolly | as Kraven |
| Bill Nighy | as Viktor |
| Erwin Leder | as Singe |
| Robbie Gee | as Kahn |
| Wentworth Miller | as Dr. Adam Lockwood |
| Kevin Grevioux | as Raze |
| Dennis J. Kozeluh | as Dignitary |
| Scott McElroy | as Soren |
| Todd Schneider | as Trix |
| Sándor Bolla | as Rigel |
| Hank Amos | as Nathaniel |
| Richard Cetrone | as Pierce |
| Mike Mukatis | as Taylor |
| Sándor Boros | as Candidate #1 |
| János Oláh | as Candidate #2 |
| Andreas Patton | as Death Dealer Captain |
| Danny McBride | as Mason |
| Atilla Pinke | as Wolfgang |
| Brian Steele | as Werewolf |
| Kurt Carley | as Werewolf |
| Zoltan Papp | as Werewolf |
| Actresses | |
| Kate Beckinsale | as Selene |
| Sophia Myles | as Erika |
| Zita Görög | as Amelia |
| Zsuzsa Barsi | as Gunshot Girl |
| Jázmin Dammak | as Sonja |
| Judit Kuchta | as Zsuzsa |
| Vanessa Nagy | as Timea |
| Ildikó Kovács | as Michael's Old Girlfriend |
| Rana Morrison | as Female Vampire |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 2 September 2002 - 23 November 2002 |
| Budget: | USD 22,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 51,970,690 USD (11 January 2004) Worldwide - 95,708,457 USD (20 May 2009) Finland - 172,060 USD (1 January 2004) Germany - 2,624,646 EUR (2004) Italy - 658,636 EUR (1 February 2004) |
| Plot: | It's about a war that has been going on for centuries between Vampires and Lycan (Werewolves). When one Vampire uncovers a plot by the Lycan to capture a specific human, no one will believe her. She therefore decides to take it upon herself to find out what's going on. Along the way, she finds some things about her past and some things about the war that change her outlook and to whom she should ally herself. One question that seems to be asked throughout the film is...who started the war? |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Now I Know" Written by Danny Lohner Performed by Renholder Additional Vocals by Amy Lee "Down in the Lab" Written by Danny Lohner Performed by Renholder Additional Vocals by Amy Lee "Death Dealer's Descent" Written by Danny Lohner Performed by Renholder Additional Vocals by Amy Lee "Bring Me the Disco King (Loner Mix)" Written by David Bowie Performed by David Bowie Courtesy of ISO Records/Risky Folio Inc./Columbia Records Under license to Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. "Judith (Renholder Mix)" Written by Maynard James Keenan and William Howerdel Performed by A Perfect Circle Remixed by Danny Lohner and Joshua Eustis Courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc. Under license from EMI Film & Television Music "Coward" Written by Wes Borland and Danny Lohner Performed by Renholder "REV 22:20" Written by Maynard James Keenan and Danny Lohner Performed by Puscifer "Awakening" Written by Richard Patrick , Wes Borland, Danny Lohner Performed by The Damning Well "Optimissed" Written by Cevin Key, Nivek Ogre and Mark Walk Performed by Skinny Puppy |
Goofs
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Revealing mistakes: When Viktor pushes Michael through the wall, as he lands in the water you can see several large pieces of the broken wall floating on the water behind him, showing them to be polystyrene. Revealing mistakes: Just after Viktor is awakened we see a white car make a right turn. The street sign is in mirror writing showing that the image has been flipped. Continuity: In the security office that looks over Viktor's tomb, the Quickcam jumps from the top of one of the monitors to the desk between shots. Continuity: The men behind Kahn at the door to Viktor's chamber are all different men when they get into the chamber. Fact errors: Silver nitrate is a clear substance and looks nothing like the quick-silvery fluid seen in the movie, even in high concentrations (though it may turn black if stored for long periods). This may have been done intensionally however. Continuity: Selene throws four throwing-stars at the Lycan "Raze" in the sewers, in the sequence where they are removed one shot is mirrored so that the last star jumps from left to right shoulder and then back again for the final ripout. Continuity: During the assault on the Lycan base, as Den Kahn and his men are cautiously clearing out a tunnel, Kahn is clearly holding his rifle with his right hand on the pistol grip and left hand on the fore-grip. When we see him peer down a dark tunnel, all close-ups of the rifle and tunnel show his hands being reversed with left hand on the pistol grip and right hand on the fore-grip. Revealing mistakes: Just before the werewolf with stars in him (thrown at him by Selene) gets them removed, he walks in holding someone's body over his shoulder. He is supposed to be naked because of the transformation, but you can see a small pair of black underwear. CHAR: Michael's address shown on the computer is misspelled. It is Laktos Joszef 39 ut. instead of Lakatos József u. 39. Revealing mistakes: When Kahn rolls the grenade down a shaft full of Lycans, the grenade bounces out of the puddle at the bottom. As it does this the explosion begins from within the puddle, underneath the still airborne grenade. Continuity: SPOILER: When Viktor pulls the pendant from his daughter, the cord which it hung on breaks nearly completely off leaving only about 1 or 2 inches on either side. When Lucian snatches it off the dusty floor before leaping through the window, the entire cord is intact, and still attached to the pendant. Continuity: Towards the end, Selene frees Michael from the examination table by shooting off the chains attached to the handcuffs that bind him to the table. In the next few shots, when Michael is yanking off the ropes that had been around his chest, the handcuffs themselves have disappeared from his wrists, including the chains. Continuity: When Lucian's scientist is mixing Michael's blood in the beaker to find out if it is pure, the amount of fluid in the beaker changes between shots. Continuity: When Selene is awakening Viktor his Canines are fangs just like the rest of the vampires, but through the movie both his Lateral Incisors and his Canines are fangs instead. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Viktor throws Michael back for the last time before Michael gets shot by the vampires, you can see the bottoms of Scott Speedman's feet where they did not put the black paint makeup. Continuity: A bald man wearing a green jacket and carrying a blue backpack appears to board the subway train three times during the opening sequence. We see him in front of Michael standing next to the subway train doors; then we see him walking past Raze toward the train; and then a second later we see him walk past Raze toward the train exactly as before. Continuity: The shooting gallery scene: in close-ups of the statue targets, bullets are slamming into them at a high rate, as if from a machine gun. When the shot changes to show Selene, she is actually seen to be using a semi-automatic pistol, and firing at a much slower rate. Revealing mistakes: When Micheal is thrown backwards into a pillar, while fighting Victor, the rest of the action is normal, while it appears to be that Micheal is moving in slow motion. Obvious to the fact that he is being dragged into the pillar, and not very hard. FAIR: SPOILER: We know that vampires and Lycans can transfer memories to those they bite. For example, Selene gives her memories to Viktor and Lucian - to Michael. But in that case Selene would have already known that Viktor was responsible for the death of her family, because he turned her into a vampire. However, Selene's memories in Victor's head were garbled, because she couldn't transfer them well enough. Obviously, just being bitten isn't enough to transfer memories - a complicated and conscious effort is required as well. Victor even says that only elders know how to do it properly. Certainly Victor would know better than to transfer the "self-incriminating" memories to Selene, which explains why she doesn't have them. Continuity: When Michael goes through his first transformation in the police car, he has/hasn't fangs from take to take. Fact errors: The Beretta 93 series is chambered for the 9mm Parabellum and a double-stack magazine can hold 21 cartridges. In the hallway scene, Selene nearly empties both magazines. Yet, without obviously reloading or reasonable time to do so, Selene empties the equivalent of another magazine from each gun into the floor. PLOT: There is a shot where Selene picks up a camera that was on the floor. She is seen running with it in hand when she is running inside the subway. But then it is never seen again as she flips out through the rear window. We never see the camera again until back at the Mansion when she is reviewing the pictures taken. Where could anyone possibly conceal a camera of that size? Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the battle between Victor and Michael, Victor hurls Michael across the water and into a pillar. As soon as the camera changes to show Michael getting up you can clearly see the cord used to pull Michael across the room on the ground leading up to his back. CHAR: After Selene returns to the mansion with Michael, she has a conversation with Kraven in which he asks why Lucian would be interested in a human. At this point in the story Selene has not yet made the discovery that Lucian is still alive and is the lycan that bit Michael. This is clearly a slip of the tongue. |
Quotes
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Selene: I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. But all that is about to change. Lucian: We were slaves once. The daylight guardians of the vampires. I was born into servitude. Yet I harbored them no ill will. Even took a vampire for my bride. It was forbidden, our union. Viktor feared a blending of the species. Feared it so much he killed her. His own daughter. Burnt alive for loving me. This is his war. Viktor's. And he spent the last 600 years exterminating my species. Selene: It wasn't the Lycans. It was you. How could you bare my trust knowing that you killed my family? Viktor: Yes, I have taken from you but I have given so much more. Is it not a fair trade for life I have granted you? The gift of immortality? Selene: And the life of your daughter? Your own flesh and blood? Viktor: I loved my daughter. But the abomination growing in her womb was a betrayal of me and the coven. I did what was necessary to protect the species. As I am forced to do yet again. Selene: Lycans are allergic to silver. We have to get the bullets out quickly, or they end up dying on us during questioning. Michael Corvin: What happens to them afterward? Selene: We put the bullets back in. Selene: How can you trust him over me? Viktor: Because he's not the one who has been tainted by an animal. Selene: Whether you like it or not, you're in the middle of a war that has been raging for the better part of a thousand years. A blood feud between vampires and lycans. Werewolves. [Erika helps Selene escape] Selene: Why are you helping me? Erika: I'm not. I'm helping me. Viktor: You know why I have been awakened, servant? Kraven: No, my lord, but I will soon find out. Viktor: You mean - when you find her? Kraven: Yes, my lord. Viktor: You must let her come to me. We have much to discuss, Selene and I. She has shown me a great many disturbing things. Things that will be *dealt* with soon enough. This covern has grown weak, decadent. Perhaps I should have left someone else in charge of my affairs. [panting] Still, her memories are chaotic. There is no sense of time. Kraven: Please, my lord, let me summon assistance. You are in need of rest. Viktor: I have rested enough. What you will do is summon Marcus. Kraven: But he still slumbers, my lord. Amelia and the council members are arriving tomorrow night to awaken Marcus - not you, my lord. You have been awakened a full century ahead of schedule. Viktor: Now tell me, why have you come to believe that Lucian still lives? Selene: But I've given you all the proof you need. Viktor: Incoherent thoughts and images, nothing more - which is precisely why the awakening is performed by an elder. You do not possess the neccesary *skills*! Selene: But I did see Lucian, I shot him, you must believe me. Viktor: The chain has never been broken, not once, not in fourteen centuries, not since we elders first began to leapfrog through time - one awake, two aleep - that's the way of it. It is Marcus' time to reign, not mine! Selene: But I had no choice, the coven is in danger and Michael is the key... Viktor: [snaps head loudly] Ah, yes... the lycan. [Adam is trying to verify Michael's story of what happened to him] Dr. Adam Lockwood: A full-grown man bit you? [Michael shows him the wound] Sure it wasn't a dog? Michael Corvin: [angrily] I said it was a man. [first lines] Selene: [voiceover] The war had all but ground to a halt in the blink of an eye. Lucian, the most feared and ruthless leader ever to rule the Lycan clan, had finally been killed. The Lycan horde scattered to the wind in a single evening of flame and retribution. Victory, it seemed, was in our grasp, the very birthright of the vampires. Nearly six centuries had passed since that night, yet the ancient feud proved unwilling to follow Lucian to the grave. Though Lycans were fewer in number, the war itself had become more perilous, for the moon no longer held her sway. Older, more powerful Lycans, were now able to change at will. The weapons had evolved, but our orders remained the same: Hunt them down and kill them off, one by one. A most successful campaign. Perhaps too successful. For those like me, a Death Dealer, this signaled the end of an era. Like the weapons of the previous century, we, too, would become obsolete. Pity, because I lived for it. Lucian: You're acting like a pack of rabid dogs. And that, gentlemen, simply will not do. Not if you expect to defeat the vampires on their own ground. Not if you expect to survive at war. Kraven: Is there another way out? Lucian: I guess it never occurred to you that you might actually have to bleed to pull off this little coup. Lucian: You may have killed me cousin, but my will is done regardless. [last lines] Selene: [voiceover] Though I cannot predict the future, the consequences of this night will reverberate through the halls of both great covens for many years to come. Two vampire elders have been slain, one by my own hand. Soon, Marcus will take the throne, and a tide of anger and retribution will spill out into the night. Differences will be set aside. Allegiances will be made. And soon, I will become the hunted. Viktor: Lucian is dead. Singe: According to whom? Singe: For years, we've been trying to combine the bloodlines. And for years, we've failed. It was useless. Even at the cellular level, our species seemed destined to destroy each other. Yet the key, we knew... was to locate the rarest of bloodlines... a direct descendant of Alexander Corvinus... Hungarian, a warlord... who came to power in the early seasons of the fifth century. Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village. He alone survived. Somehow, his body was able to change the disease... mold it to his benefit. He became the first true immortal. And years later, he fathered at least two children... who inherited the same trait. Viktor: The sons of the Corvinus clan. One bitten by bat, one by wolf... one to walk the lonely road of mortality as a human. It's a riduculous legend, nothing more. Singe: That may be... but our species do have a common ancestor. Viktor: There is a decendant of Corvinus lying there [points to Marcus' grave]... not three feet from you. Singe: Yes. But he's already a Vampire. We needed a pure source... untainted. An exact duplicate of the original virus. The Corvinus strain itself, which we learned... was hidden away in the genetic code of his human descendants... and passed along in its dormant form... down through the ages to Michael Corvin. His blood allows for a perfect union between our species. Viktor: There can be no such union. And to speak of it is heresy. Singe: We'll see. Once Lucian has injected him... Viktor: Lucian is dead. Singe: According to whom? [Kraven has left] Viktor: [to Selene] I can assure you my child... Kraven will pay with his life. Singe: Soon this house will lie in ruins. Selene: Not before you. Singe: No, wait. Wait. You and you alone will know the truth of this. If Lucian was able to get his hands on the blood of a Pure-Born... a powerful elder like Amelia... or yourself [motions to Viktor]... and inject it along with Michael's blood... Viktor: [Whispers] Abomination. Singe: Half-Vampire... Half-Lycan... but stronger than both! Viktor: Your incompetence is becoming most... *taxing*. Kahn: [Selene shoots, rather aggressively, at a statue head, when Kahn walks in] I sure hope you never get p.o.'d at me. Viktor: [Selene enters Viktor's chamber and kneels before him] Come closer, my child. Selene: I've been lost without you, my Lord; constantly hounded by Kraven and his never-ending infatuation. Viktor: [chuckles] It is the oldest story in the book; he desires the one thing he cannot have. Raze: We were ambushed. Death Dealers; three of them. Lucian: And the candidate? Raze: We lost him. Lucian: You lost him? Lucian: The vampires didn't realise you were following a human, did they, Raze? Raze: No. [He groans as Singe yanks another shuriken out of his chest] Raze: I mean... I don't think so. Lucian: You don't think or you don't know? Raze: I'm not sure. Kraven: Engaging with Death Dealers in public, and she has to run after some human, that is *not* what I had in mind! You were told, you were *told* to set up shop and lay low...! Lucian: [grabs Kraven by the throat] Calm yourself, Kraven. The human doesn't concern you. Besides, I've laid low for long enough. Kraven: Just keep your men at bay, Lucian, at least for the time being. Don't make me have to regret our arrangement. Lucian: You just concentrate on your part. Remember, I've bled for you once already. Without me, you'd have nothing. You'd *be* nothing. Viktor: What's... this... *ruckus*? Viktor: There is a good reason why these rules were created, and they are the only reason we have survived this long! Michael Corvin: I have to go... I have to get back... Lucian: There's no going back, there's no going anywhere. The vampires will kill you on sight, just for being one of us. You ARE one of us! Michael Corvin: Your war... it has nothing to do with me... Lucian: My war? Michael Corvin: They'll kill you too for helping me! Selene: I know. Kraven: Put on something elegant - and be quick about it! [turns to leave] Selene: Kraven, I'm serious! Kraven: Other than food, why would a lycan stalk a human? Selene: Jump. Michael Corvin: Are you fucking kidding me? Michael Corvin: I want to stay with you... Selene: We have a serious problem. Singe: [examining Trix's body] Look at this mess. Raze: AG rounds, high content. Prevented him from making the change. Singe: [pulls one out] No point in taking out the rest. The silver's penetrated his organs. Regeneration's impossible at this point. |
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