While not awful this is easily the worst in the series and I wasn't even a fan to begin with. It has some good music though but the rest of it struggles to get above simple mediocrity. The film doesn't even have a proper conclusive ending.

The story is a mess and there are a lot of things which seem to come out of nowhere and go unexplained. But the action and effects are of high quality and basically carry the film. Overall, Underworld: Awakening does not live up to the standard maintained by the first three films in the series; the whole project feels like it was made on a budget 30-40% smaller than the preceding installments.

Don't really blame Speedman for staying away from the series if this is what they produce. It redeems itself during the second half but is mostly horrible. Atrocious dialogue, large sections of nothing and some dumb action sequences. They tiptoe around Speedman's character being in the film, but he's not played by the same actor. That says enough. The only thing that saves the film is Kate looking bad ass in leather.

Sentimental ranking. *hangs head in shame*

Saying this was bad would be a lie. Saying that UW Akakening is boring bullshit? Bullseye! Ridiculous action scenes and a non present story destroys the (in my mind) good prequel movie, which appeared in 2010 "Rise of the Lycans". This was almost nothing.

not that bad, i taste like the first movie.

I liked the part where a distant relative of Wile E. Coyote dropped an elevator on the super quick protagonist (who communicates exclusively in semantically empty monosyllables) only to have her walk out the door unharmed. Meep meep.

All that damn smoke at the beginning when Kate fell out the ice you couldn't see anything.

Just stop. The first one was good but it just gets worse and worse every time.

Why do I keep watching these movies? The first was terrible, the second was abysmal and this one is... well it's just not very good. So hats off for some minor improvements over being utterly bottom of the barrel.

The good: Kate Beckinsale running around in a latex catsuit kicking ass was fun. The bad: plot was uneven & dumb.

Not so good

All Selene. All Action. All The Time! Telling a story was definitely not one of the goals for the swedish director duo who took on the 4th movie in the franchise. Instead it seems they wanted to make up for the 3rd movie lacking Kate. If you enjoy a bunch good supernatural fight scenes, then Underworld Awakening is one to watch. On the plus side, Underworld has for me always been the only franchise to successfully copy the look and feel of The Matrix, that we all love so much.

Can't say I expected even a mediocre movie. Question now is, whether they can make even worse sequel to this.

This is actually better than the previous (dreadful) installment of this franchise. Kate Beckinsale still can't act and her co-stars are all terrible but it does have moments of high camp value. The Lycans hopping around trashing cars is amusing and so is every acrobatic gun scene which ends with a sexy pose. That's to be expected but there are gloriously preposterous moments of gore such as a silver dust grenade gibbing a werewolf from the inside out. Watch it in 3d if you must.

Why did they even make this movie?

It will be a 'Cinema Series' I presume. Finish the story already! The first one was ok, and that was it!

Action packed, but a bit touching and all that. I'd say it's missing one thing: small talk. I'd loved it all the more if the series had that instead of vamps loading guns without saying a word.

Great effects.

more of the same, only this time it's in 3D, and this is the first 3D movie i've gone to that i didn't even notice was in 3D. much like kate beckinsale, everyone's talking about how hot she is, i didn't really even notice in the movie and now it's over i completely forgot what she looked like. this series will always get a couple points up from me simply because i have an undue bias toward werewolves.

really good 10 out of 10

The long-winded narration that opens each film now sounds like a reminder of mediocrity 2 come by this point. Having said that, this is 1 of the better sequels if 4 no other reason than it's short & the latex-clad Beckinsale's back. There r actually some surprising plot twists as well & the non-stop action sequences r decently staged. The film only derails when it stops 4 a ridiculously clichéd discussion about whether it's better 2 hide from persecution or fight back, but it's thankfully brief.

You're watching Underworld: Awakening to see Kate Beckinsale in a bunch of action scenes while dressed in her leather catsuit. You get that. The action scenes are slick and well-made, the lycans look better than they ever have before, and the ending sequence, involving at least three distinct battles, is satisfactory, even if the ending as a whole promises much more than it delivers. I had a good time, even if this installment completely ignores all of the history and back story of its universe.

Kate Beckinsale, vampires, werewolves, cool action scenes, pretty good visuals and atmosphere... check. But then I felt like the movie fucked me because the movie set up a sequel in the worst possible way ever... by lacking content. I mean c'mon, you were doing SO GOOD, add another half hour onto this short as hell movie and then I probably have no complaints. Entertaining but that really irked me. Still see it, though.

The Underworld series have been good, but this is definitely a shining moment for the series! Awakening brings Selene (Beckinsale) back into the action along with a nice new crop of likable characters, as we watch the vampires & lycans battle once again! Plenty of action this time around, which looked amazing in 3D of course, as well as getting to know Selene more and what happened with her & Michael after the second film. Overall it will surely please Underworld fans, I highly recommend it! :-)

The complex mythology of the past underworld films is replaced by pure action. If im honest I actually miss the characters and twists from the other films, but this does a fine job of sticking Kate in leather and having her shoot things, the action scenes are solid, couldn't make my mind up about the 3D. Next time round could we have an actual ending as well.

Kind of boring movie. Effects were fine but except that the movie was shallow and not interesting to watch. I'm glad I brought some popcorns with me... Only the graphics saved this movie's score.

Ok.. pretty much a standard action movie with a weak story. But you gotta admit, you're not gonna just let it go by without watching it :). It's a must see for that reason, and only for that reason.. because after you watch it, you tell yourself "I knew it" and "I told you so" it's not going to be anything special anyway :). Great special effects. More of the same.

It’s not a good movie to start with, but the 3D sure made it worse. It’s just more of the same here, but with almost no plot at all. I don’t even really remember what happened in the film anymore. Very little, as I recall. There were a couple of kinda cool action shots, but nothing we haven’t seen before. I found myself bored. Pretty much the only good thing was Kate Beckinsale. And I don’t mean her acting, which was completely void of emotion. I just mean how hot she is in skin-tight leather.

Like the Resident Evil franchise the Underworld films were initially very decent, but they're both grasping for straws in their storylines by now. Still it has some cool action sequences (The CGI are at times pretty lame though) and Kate Beckinsale in latex - so what's not to like about that? I only have one question... Where does she hide her extra clips for the guns? She seems to run out of bullets quite a lot, but then all of the sudden she's fully loaded...

eng; [Underworld: Awakening]; bei ihrer flucht wird das liebespaar getrennt und die vampirin erwacht 12 jahre später mit einer geheimnisvollen tochter.; (sehr blutig);

not the best, still want more tho

Disappointing run-time and ending, but decent fight scenes (even they don't feel like enough) which is all I ask of an Underworld movie. Definitely needs some more interesting characters besides Selene, because she ain't cutting it whenever she's not killing something.