Kate Beckinsale returns as the insatiable and very sexy vampire hunter Selene in this fourth installment of the ever so successful Underworld franchise.
Underworld: Awakening (also known as Underworld 4) is directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. Sandrine Holt, Michael Ealy, and India Eisley have been cast in roles new to the series.
Scott Speedsman who played Michael Corvinas in the first two films did NOT reprise his role this time around. What you see him is archived footage. Filming began in March 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was released in Digital 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D theatres on January 20, 2012.
Plot : 4/5
Movie : 4/5
SPFX : 4.5/5
Audio : 4.5/5
Plot-
"Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the sexy vampire hunter Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species." - Sony release
6 months after the events of Underworld: Evolution, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) was captured by the humans. Eventually both government officials and the public learn about the existence of the Vampires and the Lycans (Werewolves).
A crusade and all-out war has begun: study and eradicate. After being imprisoned in cryogenic suspension for 12 years, Selene manages to escape the facility. During the same time, another subject has also escaped the same facility that Selene was in. That subject was Eve (India Eisley), her hybrid daughter who is the key to ending the war by "curing" Vampires and Lycans of their "infection".
Movie- will detail almost the first 15-20 minutes then the rest will be a surprise.
The beginning of the film took us back and showed us a quick recap of the past movies. Then whoosh, you're immediately in the action of the movie.
Which is what I love when they [Hollywood] do that. It's starts out shortly after the end of Underworld: Evolution. The humans have just found the existence of Vampires and Lycans. Governments take control and purge the population, killing all of the non-humans. The battle to stay safe has gotten so rough that that Selene & Michael decide to leave the city.
on her way to meet up with Micael they get ambushed. And Selene gets captured by the company called Antogen.
From the beginning of the movie to the end there is tons of action and fight scenes to the end. The next time we see Selene she is cryogenically frozen. There is a battle outside of her frozen case. Someone presses the release button to her case. She escapes and kills any in her way to get out of the building..........
There are so many twists and turns in the film that at some points I was asking myself, "Wait, what....how?!?"
There were a couple scenes where it shows Selene performing some kind of trick. We never saw her do it before and the movie never explained where or how she learned to do it.
As far as the movie goes it had me on the edge of my seat because of all the intense action.
SPFX-
The special effects, the CG(computer graphics) and the 3D made the film better than expected.
CG: there were many parts of the film where they had to use CG and where it was put, it was put well. For example, the bigger lycan that makes an appearance.
3D: the 3D of the film was ok, not as good as AVATAR3D, but it still had some pretty good 3D effects. When bombs or silver nitrate grenades blew up/off, there was definite eye popping effects. There was some mediocre effects like the people shoving their barrel of their guns at the screen for an ok effect, but that was expected.
Audio-
The audio was put in full 7.1 audio which made it sound even better. It made the action revolve around you.
The soundtrack of the film sounded excellent mixed into the action of the film.
I give this movie a pretty good rating. This is definitely one to see in theaters. I would probably expect a fifth installment by 2014. They left the end of this one wide open for another one.
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