- Studio: Screen Gems
- Release Date: Jan 20, 2012
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Summary:
Vampire warrioress, Selene, 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. (Screen Gems)
- Director: Björn Stein
- Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 7 out of 17
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70The 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. Allegedly in 3-D, though I didn't notice at the time.
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60A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach.
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Jan 20, 201235Murky and perpetually bluish in tinge, Underworld: Awakening does and gets little with the 3-D in which it's being offered, and ends by shamelessly setting up a further and fatally unnecessary installment.
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Jan 21, 201230Kate Beckinsale can still fill out a skin-tight leather bodysuit, but with Awakening, the vampires-vs-werewolves Underworld franchise has finally decayed beyond the point of repair.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 70
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Mixed: 14 out of 70
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Negative: 13 out of 70
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