Underworld: Blood Wars
The remaining vampire covens are on the verge of annihilation by the Lycans. Both species are searching for Selene: the vampires seek justice for the death of Viktor, while the Lycans, led by Marius, intend to use her to locate Eve, whose blood holds the key to building an army of vampire-werewolf hybrids.
Semira, a council member of the Eastern Coven, asks Thomas to plead Selene's case before the council. The plea is successful and the council reluctantly agrees to a pardon in exchange for Selene's help. Selene arrives with David and starts training the coven's neophyte Death Dealers for the upcoming war. Semira and Varga, her ally and lover, later poison Selene, slaughter the trainees and frame her for the atrocity. With Selene in her custody, Semira begins draining her blood, intending to drink it to steal her power. Thomas and David attempt a rescue and manage to save Selene. Unfortunately, Thomas dies in the process.
At the Eastern Coven, Semira drinks the blood taken from Selene. Alexia returns and informs her of the attack at the Nordic Coven. Semira kills Alexia, telling her that she knew of her secret alliance with Marius. David returns to the Eastern Coven, presents himself as its rightful heir and denounces Semira. Even Varga deserts her, saying his loyalty is to the rightful leader. She is led off to be imprisoned in her room.
As Selene makes her way through the castle, Semira escapes from her room and kills the guards. Selene and David find Marius, but David is waylaid by Semira. During the fight, a drop of Marius' blood lands on Selene's lips and she is suddenly flooded by his memories. She sees Marius capturing Michael Corvin and slitting his throat to collect his blood and consume it. To counter her despair over Michael's death, she bites her own wrist, accessing her own blood memories of time spent with him. Selene then rips out Marius' spine, killing him instantly. Meanwhile, David manages to kill Semira. He shows Marius' severed head to the Lycans and calls on them to collect their wounded and retreat.
Rafer Guzman of Newsday called the film the weakest and most bloodless of the series, with \"third-rate\" special effects and \"clunky\" action scenes.[26] Ben Kengisberg of the New York Times wrote that the film was \"so heavy with exposition\" that the director and screenwriter were making \"a dissertation instead of a sequel\", and criticized what he saw as the film's \"almost willful lack of fun\".[27] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film was a \"generic, by-the-numbers\" exercise that was \"strictly anemic\", given \"all its talk of blood\". He did praise the acting of Beckinsale and Dance, also saying that the presence of Dance continued the tradition of distinguished British actors \"appearing in Hollywood crap in lieu of receiving a proper pension\".[28]
Vampire death dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) continues her struggle against the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her, with both sides trying to use the blood of her and her daughter to become Corvinus Strain hybrids. After hiding her daughter, Selene, David (Theo James) and his father Thomas (Charles Dance), attempt to end the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, though Selene must take a risk that may cost her life.
Beginning of the film: \"I was an elite soldier in the Vampire army, a Death Dealer, but I was betrayed. Viktor, our leader and the most powerful Vampire was not the savior he had led me to believe. Suddenly allies turned enemies. The Vampire Elders I had once protected wanted me dead. Then I found Michael Corvin, neither Vampire nor Lycan. Michael became a Hybrid. We retaliated, killed the Elders. But then, everything changed. I was captured, not knowing that I was carrying Michael's child. Eve, our daughter, the first pure-blood Hybrid whose blood could end the war became highly sought after by both Vampires and Lycans alike. My only choice was to hide her from the world and from myself so not even I could lead them to her. I have lived beyond my time, another new moon in a thousand years of new moons. And I do not care to see it. I have nothing. My coven, my daughter, my love all gone. And soon, perhaps, my very existence. I am hunted by Vampires and Lycans. Now I am an outcast, a pariah.\"
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Later, during a duel between Marius and Selene, Alexia revealed her true allegiance by plunging her sword into the back of her fellow Vampire. To discover if Selene was telling the truth about not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter, Alexia licked Selene's blood off her sword, gaining access to Selene's blood memories. She then revealed to an enraged Marius that Selene was indeed telling the truth. Marius ordered her to return to the Eastern Coven, saying the Lycans must attack as soon as possible and that she knows what she must do.