Release Date: January 20th, 2012Tomatometer: 28% positive (57 reviews)
Cineblog Rating: 5/10
For me, the Underworld series is sort of a guilty pleasure. But really though, who doesn't want to watch Kate Beckingsale run around in leather, shooting werewolves and beheading vampires? Exactly my point.
Underworld: Awakening opens with the capture of Selene and an event known as "The Purge," when humans band together to exterminate their supernatural enemies. Twelve years later, our heroine is awakened* from a cryogenic sleep to find that she's a prisoner of medical corporation Antigen. Selene then proceeds to kick ass and take names in an attempt to find out who helped her escape, what happened to Michael and what Antigen is really up to. Viewed as an outcast by her own species, an abomination to mankind and a delicious snack to the Lycans, Selene doesn't have much to do but fight everything she comes across in her quest for answers.
If I were to summarize Underworld in three words, they would be "awesome" "monsters" and "violence." That being said, Awakening feels as though it isn't its own movie, but rather just an hour long trailer for Underworld 5. The story is somewhat weak, and only holds together if you don't think about it. To be fair though, the Underworld series has never really been about thinking so much as it has been about holding on for the ride.
So Pretty Much: Underworld: Awakening is a mindless action movie with monsters. It's pretty cool.
*see what they did there?
