This Ain't Your Granddad's Boris Karloff!

     I am not gonna waste much time with this piece of...Gem...that's what I meant to say, Gem.  For mere production values it gets a score of absolutely nothing.  This film is really not very good from start to finish.  Not one actor in it seems like they are actually trying so everyone just phones in their performances.  There is a few actual great actors but if you were to base their careers on this one movie then these fellas would be poorer then I.  One stand out exceptionally bad one is Miranda Otto, she really cannot act at any level and shouldn't even be put in a high school play.  On the other hand we have Yvonne Strahovski who can't really act either but I can say this, she could be wearing a trash bag reciting gangster rap and I would watch her all day.  I know, I know, double standards! 
     Special effects are just that, special!  Some are decent but most are just terrible as to being an embarrassment to special effects technicians everywhere.  The way I see it is if the techs you hired on to work the movie magic can't actually do the work at hand then time to let them go.  Not just give a dog a bone and allow them to destroy the one aspect of a bad film that may have saved it.
     So the story goes like this...if you want to make an Underworld film then just make it.  Don't just change a couple things around and and give it a name that will lie to the public into thinking it has to do with one of films greatest characters!  Which brings me to why is the Frankenstein Monster even in it?  I understand it is from a comic book, so you can't blame the filmmakers for that but lets look at it this way.  You have a crappy story of gargoyles versus vampires and you know it won't sell at all because it is gargoyles versus vampires.  So how do you fix that?  Add in a character that has already proven to be a beloved and money making character obviously.  Then you commence to making just a bad film about gargoyles versus vampires with a guy that has a scar on his face that's supposed to be the likes of Boris Karloff! 
     You should probably skip this one as it's not even a popcorn flick at any rate.  But, that's up to you.