First - time feature director Anna Foerster seems well aware that the talky bits in the Underworld universe are best served in small doses, and that gives the extended cast — which also includes Theo James as a good guy, Tobias Menzies as a bad guy, Lara
Pulver as a vampire lady we're not quite sure about, and (of course) the awesome Charles Dance emoting his way through some enjoyably colorful nonsense — ample time to beat the stuffing out of each other.