Bill Dungsroman wrote:

Oh, what's not to like?

-imdb lists it as an Action/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller/Romance. Add in Comedy from the unintentionally hilarious bad dialogue, and what more do you need from a film?
-Directed by Len Wiseman, who up until that point was a props handler for Stargate TV and then Independence Day.
-Kate Beckinsale, who used to be HAWT when she weighed more than 70 pounds (she was gorgeous in Much Ado About Nothing HURF) but is now too reedy (cf: Jennifer Connelly). Fortunately, Wiseman likes 'em thin, because they married after filming concluded.
-Crazy pointless vampire hierarchy. ONLY ONE ELDER MAY BE RECONSTITUTED AT ANY TIME NOOOOO. Just one? For what seems to be the entire world? All interred in the same place (that being, the Matrix)?
-Head Leutenant vampire Kraven (HAHAHA) trying his damndest to do something with the shit dialogue he was given. "Blast." "Your place is at my side!" But wait, do it with these clunky fangs in your mouth, so you sound like you just got braces! Poor guy.
-Michael Sheen as Lucian, the pasty, sallow, wimpy leader of the Lichens, I mean Lycans. Apparently, a critical weakness in Lycans beyond silver is the inability to see a double-cross coming from a fucking mile away.
-Oh no it's Michael the hybrid wolf/vamp! Who looks like, I dunno, neither of them, really. Nor does he look particularly badass. Grey-skinned with black eyes, long fingers and zero increased bulk. Fast, though!
-Decent ending (the absolute very ending).

As it turns out, the next two films are a sequel and a prequel. Hell if I can tell which the next one is supposed to be.