Underworld Awakening (2012)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 52
There's more vapid action and less story in Underworld Awakening than previous installments, making the whole affair feel inconsequential.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 6
There's more vapid action and less story in Underworld Awakening than previous installments, making the whole affair feel inconsequential.
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Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. -- (C) Official Site
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Cast
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Kate Beckinsale
Selene -
Stephen Rea
Dr. Jacob Lane, Jacob -
Michael Ealy
Detective Sebastian -
Theo James
David -
India Eisley
Eve -
Sandrine Holt
Lida -
Charles Dance
Thomas -
Kris Holdenried
Quint -
Jacob Blair
Officer Kolb -
Adam Greydon Reid
Med Tech #1 -
Catlin Adams
Olivia -
Robert Lawrenson
Waterfront Cop -
Lee Majdoub
Desk Guard #1 -
John Innes
Medical Supervisor -
Tyler McClendon
Scientist -
Panou
Old City Cop #1 -
Ian Rozylo
Old City Cop #2 -
Benita Ha
Surgical Nurse -
Christian Tessier
Security Guard #1 -
Kurt Max Runte
Troop Leader -
Mark Gibbon
Announcing Guard -
Richard Cetrone
Lycan Creature #1 -
Dan Payne
Lycan Creature #2 -
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All Critics (70) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (52) | DVD (2)
Once again, Beckinsale brings an impressive physicality and subzero cool to her portrayal of Selene.
Top CriticKate Beckinsale's "Selene" remains one-note, but it's a wildly entertaining note.
The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum.
The most generic entry of the bunch.
There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence.
A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach.
It really adds nothing to the already dull mythos of the vampires war with the lycans...
As stylish and flashy as the action is this time around, I can still only recommend Underworld: Awakening to diehard fans of the series.
This was a film that was so soulless and so lifeless that it had not made a single bit of impact while it was playing.
if you are looking for an intelligent movie you may need to look elsewhere.
Underworld: Awakening boasts some fun stylized action, and Kate Beckinsale back in that skin-tight outfit, but it also continues the franchise's streak of frustrating mediocrity.
What begins as a promising reset ultimately settles into a too much of a retread, however watchable it may be.
... a blur of generic exposition, random plot twists, vaguely maternal instincts, sloppy CGI animation, and Stephen Rea looking like a waxwork ...
Underworld: Awakening may be nonsense, but it's beautifully choreographed nonsense.
We can never tire of watching Kate Beckinsale prance about in that tight leather outfit I tell ya. Never!
If you just accept this one as a bloody popcorn movie and don't look for much complexity, you'll undoubtedly be happy with it.
Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory -- and those are just the "P's."
Awakening has the mentality of a straight-to-video sequel, the body of an ADD child and the pulsing veins of a meth addict.
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he vampires and werewolves are at it again. No, Twihards, you haven't missed another "Twilight" episode. This is indeed part of a franchise, but a far different, more violent one.
I LIKEanthroped it.
I don't think this was meant to be funny, but I found it pretty darn amusing.
Also missing... most of the so-called Lycans who, their appearance in a few respectable action sequences notwithstanding, are now nearly extinct. So is this franchise.
A sloppy, messy, frankly dumb action/horror hybrid, but at least it moves quickly and delivers the goods.
There's even an Evanescence track to close proceedings, for God's sake.
UNDERWORLD AWAKENING is definitely gory, but someone forgot to also make it scary, exciting, sexy, and/or fun.
Audience Reviews for Underworld Awakening
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- Selene: What is this place?
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- David: We stand, and we fight!
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- Lycan Creature #1: I heal instantly.
- Selene: I'm counting on it.
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- Eve: It's worse if you try to fight it, trust me.
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- Selene: I was with him one day, and when I awoke it was 12 years later.
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- Thomas: Silver ammunition!
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Foreign Titles
- Underworld 4: Awakening (DE)
- Underworld: Awakening (UK)
But the mother-daughter relationships shown were actually good and original - no hugging, no crying, no, "I love you, sweet girl!" Selene behaves as she should - she lost her loved one, so she wouldn't be a smiling happy mother just because she now has a daughter (though of course she would protect her).
I could see Beckinsale in a bunch of physics-defying action scenes while dressed in her character Selene's signature leather outfit. You get that here. The action scenes are slick and well-made, the Lycans look better than they ever have before, and the ending sequence, involving at least three distinct battles, is satisfactory, even if the ending as a whole promises much more than it delivers.