Underwold Rise of the Lycans was the first movie of the franchise that I watched so I went to the cinema with an almost 'tabula rasa' mind about it. Sure it was known that Kate Beckinsale is the kick-ass female lycan hunter, Death Dealer and that the movie has a goth feel in it. But without much background about it,the movie becomes more interesting to watch with the gore, sword fights, forbidden love and the piercing dark atmosphere.
The heroine in the story was condemned to death. So if she died, how come that there had been two Underworld stories? It turned out that she was not Kate Beckinsale all along but it was another actress, Rhona Mitra. The story was about Sonja, the mother of Kate's character Selene. On how she 'consorted to an animal'and 'messed up the bloodlines'as his furious father and leader of the coven Viktor accused her. But she argued that she fell in love with the lycan slave, Lucian.She helped him and the other lycans to escape for their freedom. Sonja was supposed to meet Lucian to run away together but Viktor discovered her treachery and confined her, so he went back to the fortress to rescue her but got caught. The vampire council, lead by Viktor, unanimously voted that Sonja must die despite being pregnant, while Lucian was forced to watch her demise. The Vampire v.s. Lycans battle ensued, calling their warewolves brothers to fight with them, the Lycans was victorious and ovethrew the vampires from their own fortress. Lucian overpowered Viktor, but at the end, the vampire proved to be resilient and not easily killed. He was later shown to be smuggled out in a ship, resting on his casket to regenerate cursing that 'this will just be the beggining'. Thus starting the long, waging war between the Vampires and the Lycans.
To end the movie, Kate as Selene was shown in the opening sequence of the first Underwold movie being told about what really transpired in the past. That it was the vampires who started the conflict and her families were murdered by Viktor himself and not by the lycans as she was led to believe, on which she only coldly replied: "Lies."
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