ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Smoreni Zmaj Fourth movie is bit weaker than 3 prequels. Action continues in same manner, but story is not developed enough. You could get impression of watching trailer instead of real movie. But basically I do like it. I hope that 5th movie will justify keeping this franchise alive.6,5/10

dee.reid 2012's "Underworld: Awakening" is probably the most underwhelming entry in the decade-old-and-counting horror/fantasy "Underworld" franchise. The first "Underworld" (2003) had an interesting premise that played on long-established werewolf and vampire mythology, and "Underworld: Evolution" (2006) was a worthy continuation of the first film's story. The prequel "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" (2009) has so far been unseen by me, and tonight I finally got the chance to see the fourth film in the series, "Underworld: Awakening."When I say that this film is underwhelming, I mean that it really doesn't offer anything new, except for really big action sequences and questionable special effects - which says a lot for a movie that cost an estimated $70 million to make (and that should probably make it the best movie in the series thus far). And Kate Beckinsale, as vampire "death dealer" Selene, is fantastic to look at in black leather and kicking a** all over the screen.The film's plot is really all over the place, and posits that baseline humanity has since learned of the existence of rival vampire and werewolf clans, and has enacted campaigns to exterminate both species. Selene is caught in the middle of all this, and she is captured and cryogenically frozen for 12 years. She soon escapes to go and find her vampire/werewolf-hybrid lover Michael (Scott Speedman, in archive footage). But Selene isn't alone: she has a human cop named Sebastian (Michael Ealy) and a fellow vampire named David (Theo James) helping her out, and the mysterious child Eve (India Eisley) who also holds a secret that may have the future of both the vampire and werewolf clans at her disposal."Underworld: Awakening" is very clearly the low point in the series, as directed by Marlind & Stein, who pump up the action and gory violence but also leave out the plot and characterization - which is really what made the first two movies in the series so great.Best to just watch this one once to see what it's about, and then leave it at that.6/10

Prismark10 On the plus side Underworld: Awakening is a generic horror action film with that bleached out look and plenty of fake CGI blood.Kate Beckinsale puts on a skin tight leather suit again as the murderous vampire Selene. The humans have discovered the subspecies of Vampires and Lycans and have been destroying them.Selene and her Lycan lover Michael were captured and put in a deep freeze in a private laboratory. Now some twelve years later Selene has emerged from her cryogenic sleep in mysterious circumstances and enters a world with supposedly no werewolves and vampires.Pretty soon she discovers the last remnants of a coven and teams up with a vampire named David (Theo James), a police detective Sebastian (Michael Ealy) and she finds out about her hybrid daughter Eve (India Eisley). Just as there are some vampires still remaining, there are also Lycans who have survived and rebuilt their numbers and Eve and Selene are crucial to their future plans.The absence of Michael (Scott Speedman) who appears as CGI in some scenes dos not help the story much which is paper thin, the dialogue is bad. The film just relies on video game action scenes with plenty of CGI and a cheap look to it.

bbkates I have watched and loved all the previous Underworld films, this really was a disappointment, the plot, the lack of content, the length?! What's going on? Really could have gone somewhere else with this and kept in theme with the last three. A massive let down to the fans. I seemed to be waiting for it to get going the whole time, I was still waiting when it ended. The special effects were good I suppose but that just didn't make up at all for the lack of story. The first three were so good though! Why do this? It's one of the rare occasions where each new film was as good as the last in fact to be honest the third one ( Rise of the Lycans ) was my favourite! I'd rather they just left it at that than ruin it by going on to make a rubbish sequel. Cannot fault the acting as it was good as usual and plenty of action scenes as these films are known and loved for but without the story behind it, pointless.