Underworld Awakening Reviews

Awakening has the mentality of a straight-to-video sequel, the body of an ADD child and the pulsing veins of a meth addict.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

I LIKEanthroped it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A swift, brutal, and thoroughly competent actioner that doesn't balk at a bit of bloodletting. Arriving between parts one and two of Twilight's interminable swan song Breaking Dawn, nothing could be more welcome.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The directors ignore the hokey and increasingly busy mythology of past entries to serve up a nonstop bloodbath: The violence is surprisingly extreme, goofily absurd and gratifyingly coherent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Brief but bloody and best enjoyed in zombie mode.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

If you liked the earlier Underworld films, or if you haven't seen them but enjoyed the Resident Evil movies, then you'll like this one too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Once again, Beckinsale brings an impressive physicality and subzero cool to her portrayal of Selene.

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Kate Beckinsale's "Selene" remains one-note, but it's a wildly entertaining note.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The reason the Underworld series works is Kate Beckinsale's portrayal of the all black clad, baddass Vampire Selene is just cool. She doesn't whine, moan, or sparkle she just kicks the butt of anyone who screws her over.

Full Review | Original Score: B

A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

This is pulp horror with a dollop of science fiction... with the cast elevating the material above the gore and CGI effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The entire production is single-mindedly, earnestly devoted to serving up feats of BADASS, and it succeeds in this devotion to the exclusion of everything else.

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It's a sequel that compliments parts one and three. If you enjoyed part two, we can't be friends.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Of all the movies whose makers designate them as crap by not screening them in advance for critics, forcing me to go to a multiplex in vampire hours and write a review in a sour overnight stupor, Underworld Awakening is one of the best.

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Fans will be pleased, although if you've never seen an Underworld film there's probably no reason to start now.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

It's great to see Beckinsale back in action, and ... the Underworld series still has life in it.

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It may not be great filmmaking, and it won't attract new fans, but those already invested will be able to satiate their bloodlust with the return of Beckinsale's sleek and sexy Selene.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

It really adds nothing to the already dull mythos of the vampires war with the lycans...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

As stylish and flashy as the action is this time around, I can still only recommend Underworld: Awakening to diehard fans of the series.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10