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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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70Not quite in the class of the first film, Underworld 4 is still the most enlightened girl-power film of the week, nosing out Gina Carano's "Haywire" by the length of Pinocchio's proboscis.
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70Once again, Beckinsale brings an impressive physicality and subzero cool to her portrayal of Selene.
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67Why are they fighting again? Never you mind. Just sit tight till the next action sequence (it won't be long), and get ready to laugh - with equal parts scorn and fanboy joy - as Beckinsale strikes another Rodinesque pose under a slo-mo shower of inhuman innards.
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63There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence. But Selene lovers would pay good 3D money to see her fight a parking ticket.
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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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50A sequel seemingly eager to assert that monster mashes are about B-movie chills not "Twilight'' melodrama. Eager to a fault, ultimately.
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50More aggressively violent and thankfully less mythology driven than previous installments, Underworld: Awakening is strictly for the converted.
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Jan 20, 201250Anyway, "Children of Men" this ain't, though the inert directing of Len Wiseman (who helmed the first two films and has a producer credit here) has thankfully been replaced by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, who seem to have a lot more verve and even some visual whimsy.
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40Not a complete disaster, but also not the vampire / werewolf mash we've always wanted.
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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.
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20There is running, hiding, fighting, shooting, bleeding, biting, slicing, dicing, and damnably little entertainment value in any of it.
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Jan 20, 201220Also missing: the series' reliable camp heavies, Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen, and most of the so-called Lycans who, their appearance in a few respectable action sequences notwithstanding, are now nearly extinct. So is this franchise.
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16Watching the film is strangely like looking at the same three still frames of supernatural battles over and over for 90 minutes.
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Jan 20, 201212The only thing that manages to outpace Underworld: Awakening's ineptitude is its utter soullessness.
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0Latest, dreadful entry in the vampires-battling-werewolves franchise.
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