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You may or may not have known, but I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale, especially her role as Selene from the Underworld movies. After her absence from the third movie in the series, she's back with a vengeance, literally.
UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING is the fourth installment in the franchise. The movie starts out discussing the purge. The immortal races of vampires and lycans have been discovered by mankind and is being systematically destroyed as a menace to common people. Selene and Michael are captured by the humans and kept in suspended animation for a dozen years. Then Selene was set free by the daughter she never knew she was even carrying.
The rest of the movie is a series of twist and turns until the TRUE menace is revealed. The special effects are pretty good. The gore reaches new heights. The villains are more evil than ever. It's pretty entertaining and action packed. My only real complaint is that it was too short, only one and a half hours.
Definitely worth seeing if you want to see action, horror and violence.
Scott Speedman did NOT return to play his role as Michael Corvin, the vampire / lycanthrope hybrid. They got a guy, who isn't even listed on IMDB, who looks pretty close yet different enough to make his screen presence very distracting. Luckily, there wasn't much of it.
They never explain where the name Eve for the hybrid child comes from. When asked, she said her name was test subject 2, so what gives?
The whole 3D thing wasn't necessary. I hardly noticed anything that warranted the treatment.
The movie is shockingly short. One hour and twenty eight minutes, ONLY. There was a lot of development that could've made the movie better had they lengthened it. However the movie works fine as it is.
A little more about the coven led by Thomas would've been nice. They made reference to members of the coven never seeing a Death Dealer before Selene. Why not???
For the horndogs, I think Kate Beckinsale accidentally lets a nip slip during her escape from the cryo chamber. Don't expect more. Not even a butt shot. Don't worry, she looks more amazing than ever.
How did the lycans develop the clout to orchestrate the great purge? It would've required infiltration into the government as well as huge resources that the lycans were never in possession of in the past.
The movie is left wide open as the portal to the second Underworld Trilogy.
More at IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496025/ ***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***
They never explain where the name Eve for the hybrid child comes from. When asked, she said her name was test subject 2, so what gives?
The whole 3D thing wasn't necessary. I hardly noticed anything that warranted the treatment.
The movie is shockingly short. One hour and twenty eight minutes, ONLY. There was a lot of development that could've made the movie better had they lengthened it. However the movie works fine as it is.
A little more about the coven led by Thomas would've been nice. They made reference to members of the coven never seeing a Death Dealer before Selene. Why not???
For the horndogs, I think Kate Beckinsale accidentally lets a nip slip during her escape from the cryo chamber. Don't expect more. Not even a butt shot. Don't worry, she looks more amazing than ever.
How did the lycans develop the clout to orchestrate the great purge? It would've required infiltration into the government as well as huge resources that the lycans were never in possession of in the past.
The movie is left wide open as the portal to the second Underworld Trilogy.
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