Show Mediocre Stalls tart Off Bleak Fall Lineup Allen Johnson Staff Writer If youve you've got seven bucks that's really burning a hole in your wallet wallet wallet wal wal- let you may want to watch it dribble dribble dribble drib drib- ble away mindlessly on this latest addition to the vamp genre This numbing feature combines Romeo Juliet Blade and Matrix just more leather Kate Beckinsale Palace Pearl Harbor Serendipity stars as Selene one of the vampires charged with hunting and killi killing g their mortal enemies the Lycans who slaughtered her family years earlier A bland Scott from TVs TV's Felicity stars co-stars as Selenes Selene's love interest Michael who unfortunately for her has just been turned into a werewolf The vamps are portrayed as rich upper-class upper swells with a healthy obsession in leather rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber suits and being pretty and pale The werewolves are dirty sewer-dwellers sewer who grunt a lot The visuals are unimaginative with a subway shootout that h had d everyone in the theatre mumbling mumbling mum mum- bling Matrix rip off A constant th thought of mine min was for a race that is immortal you would think they would have the time to learn to be able to aim their guns a bit better The final climactic battle is anything anything anything any any- thing but Rocky IV was more exciting than this- this which isn't saying much The sad part is that the win fall ter movie forecast isn't looking much better Precious few films seem to have any appeal at all What do we have to look forward to These are guesses- guesses but at least these ones have turned my head in hopes that I can be entertained entertained entertained enter enter- Kill Bill does samurai Oct 10 Alien classic classic horror re-edited re Oct 31 Matrix Revolutions can the brothers redeem themselves Nov 7 Master and Commander Far Side of the World could be Gladiator- Gladiator just add water Nov 14 The Last Samurai Tom Cruise trades in his Ducati for a katana Dec 5 Big Fish Tim Burton directs impressive and able cast Dec 12 Lord of the Rings Return of the King and Bloom are back- back girls squeal Dec 19 0 |