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Underworld: Awakening

R Released Jan 20, 2012 1h 29m Fantasy Action Horror List
25% Tomatometer 77 Reviews 62% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings
In the years since she and her human-lycan lover, Michael, defeated Elder Marcus, vampire warrior Selene (Kate Beckinsale) has been taken captive by humans, while they wage an all-out war against both lycans and vampires. Awakening after more than a decade, Selene discovers that Michael is dead, but that she has given birth to his daughter, Eve. Shunned by nearly all surviving vampires, save one (Theo James), even Selene seems powerless against her latest opponent: a genetically enhanced lycan. Read More Read Less
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There's more vapid action and less story in Underworld Awakening than previous installments, making the whole affair feel inconsequential.

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Roger Moore Tribune News Service Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory -- and those are just the "P's." Rated: 1/4 Mar 23, 2012 Full Review Matt Singer Time Out Chicago 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. Rated: 1/5 Feb 1, 2012 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Selene's return is a welcome one. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 27, 2012 Full Review Iván Kazi EscribiendoCine Underworld: Awakening sticks to its parameters but stifles its efficacy by taking the fight above ground. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/10 Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review There’s little reason for anyone outside of blindly devoted fans to seek it out. Rated: 0.5/4 Feb 23, 2023 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com On a weekend where virtually every film is flawed yet entertaining this is one film that is simply flawed. Rated: 2.0/4.0 Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Eva G I normally don't care for Rotten Tomatoes advice; they rate the first two films really low when I think it's really good However I must say it is accurate for this one; the aesthetic is gone, the story telling is rubbish. I don't understand why they did this. In my mind the story ends after Evolution and it's better this way. I wish I could unsee it. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/24 Full Review KerryWhite's S Rating: 7/10. 79/100 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/24 Full Review craig_ m Loved it!! Pure action! Good plot, alot more gory.Awesome fighting scenes and the lycans are the best werewolves Ive seen. Got it on on ray Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/12/23 Full Review Kamilla A Love this franchise but miss Michael Corvin... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/11/23 Full Review Jack O After the third installment of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans which I wasn't expecting it to be a prequel and it didn't follow up to a sequel which I found to be mediocre as hell. Now as mediocre then I thought and that is without further ado, Underworld: Awakening. Yes, that's right. This is actually sequel follow up to Underworld: Evolution not Rise of the Lycans where you thought there's no Kate Beckinsale as Selene and you was saying "Hello, where the f£$k are you?" This is the same f£$king reaction that I was going to get! Anyways, lets move on. After the events of Evolution, Selene is shooting bad guys and she and Michael is been captured by humans of Dr. Jacob Lane played Stephan Lea, imprisoning Selene in the cryogenic suspension. After many years of being frozen, Selene escapes and it turns out that she thinks that Michael has escaped too. She can tell because she can see the flashbacks through her eyes. Um, okay then. As she escapes, a young vampire called David joins in with her and found a child named Eve. Along the way she got bitten by one of the Lycans. When Eve wasn't healing she and David had one to the coven of the Death Dealers to get her recovered then the coven is under attack by Lycans. Now this is a brutal action horror flick unlike the prequel and CGI is a little overly dated making the movie unwatchable. The fight sequences are enjoyable and brutal and they are just as brutal, violent and gory as the others unlike the prequel though but the delivery is quite poor. When Selene says that the humans kidnapped Eve, she has just said that they kidnapped Eve who is actually her daughter so when Selene sees her own flashbacks of Eve, she had just realised that she is her daughter so the Lycans had intended to use her DNA to enhance themselves, primarily to make themselves immune to silver and to further enhance their own fast healing. After the end battle sequence and the sirens arrived, Selene and her friends are still looking for Michael so I guess the Lycans are looking for him again so I guess I have to watch another film of Underworld called Underworld: Blood Wars. Underworld: Awakening is not as good as the others for a certain extent but had to agree that is entire mediocre. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/22/23 Full Review Red_Fives 2 A bit more straightforward than the others, but very entertaining nonetheless (I think it's my favorite so far). I enjoyed Selene's development and there's some cool new characters I hope to see more of, but they did my boy Michael dirty in this one! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In the years since she and her human-lycan lover, Michael, defeated Elder Marcus, vampire warrior Selene (Kate Beckinsale) has been taken captive by humans, while they wage an all-out war against both lycans and vampires. Awakening after more than a decade, Selene discovers that Michael is dead, but that she has given birth to his daughter, Eve. Shunned by nearly all surviving vampires, save one (Theo James), even Selene seems powerless against her latest opponent: a genetically enhanced lycan.
Director
Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Producer
Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Len Wiseman, Richard S. Wright
Screenwriter
Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Lakeshore Entertainment
Rating
R (Strong Violence and Gore|Some Language)
Genre
Fantasy, Action, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 20, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 4, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$62.3M
Runtime
1h 29m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital
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