Underworld Awakening: Critic Reviews

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

The most generic entry of the bunch.

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.

[The] latest, dreadful entry in the vampires-battling-werewolves franchise.

Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory - and those are just the "P's"

There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence.

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

Beckinsale's Selene is back with a vengeance, that famous black catsuit and two fully cocked pistols, having wisely sat out the wretched third installment of the franchise. Don't expect much more than this.

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

More aggressively violent and thankfully less mythology-driven than previous installments, Underworld: Awakening is strictly for the converted.

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.

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

Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory -- and those are just the "P's."

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 at Movies for the Masses

he vampires and werewolves are at it again. No, Twihards, you haven't missed another "Twilight" episode. This is indeed part of a franchise, but a far different, more violent one.

I LIKEanthroped it.

I don't think this was meant to be funny, but I found it pretty darn amusing.

A sloppy, messy, frankly dumb action/horror hybrid, but at least it moves quickly and delivers the goods.

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.

There's even an Evanescence track to close proceedings, for God's sake.

UNDERWORLD AWAKENING is definitely gory, but someone forgot to also make it scary, exciting, sexy, and/or fun.

It's too soon to name the worst movie of 2012, but this one sets the bar pretty high -- er, low.

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.

More creature feature than vampire movie, this fourth edition of Underworld tries to emulate the stylistics of Len Wiseman's 2004 original, with Wiseman leading the writing team