They should have called this movie "The Destruction of the Underworld Series"

Rating: 4/10 (23 April 2012)

The only reason this movie warranted a score above 2 was because the action was decent. This movie is a sequel to the first two Underworld movies, continuing the story of Selene and Michael. The film takes place twelve years after Underworld 2. I am not quite sure how to convey my disappointment in the plot without spoiling the movie. The truth is, if someone would have told me the plot before I watched the movie I might have enjoyed it more knowing that I wasn't going to watch an Underworld movie but rather an Underworld based action flick. There was very little thought that went into this mindless babble of a film. Instead of delving deeper into the Underworld we all love the writers decided to create a whole new world. An unnecessary action which was motivated by Hollywood's desire to make an easy buck by playing off of a successful title. Or maybe just cruddy production skills, I am not sure. I would not recommend this film to anyone who was looking for a good Underworld, and I stress UNDERWORLD, sequel. This is a poorly written and thought out story based on the characters and back- story of a good series.
I am honestly getting sick of the shallow content that Hollywood has been regurgitating over the past decade. There is no originality. What must have happened after the last Underworld movie was that when somebody was asked to come up with a plot for the fourth movie he/she must have thought that what they meant was, "we want you to make a stupid action flick which will be based on Underworld and will effectively destroy any chance we may have to keep the fans happy and our names as creative writers alive... please." The more I think about how much I enjoyed the story of the first three installments the more I want to hunt down the person who wrote the trash which was passed as a sequel and make him/her beg the entire world for forgiveness for disappointing us to the point that it hurts. The feeling I got the whole time I was watching was that no effort went into the film. First of all the movie was way too short. There was no dialogue. The portrayal of the Vampire leader of a certain coven was pathetic. I understand that the world changed and the point was to portray him as someone who has been running scared for a while but I don't think that that is consistent with the vampire psychology. And can someone please explain to me why vampires and lycans are running around turning all the humans?! THAT MAKES NO SENSE!!!! Why kill off your only food supply? Besides of which, the number one rule in all vamp movies is that they stay HIDDEN! Why, you ask? Gee wiz, maybe its cuz... hmmm... oh yeah! So that precisely what happened in Underworld Awakening doesn't happen! If there would ever be a vamp or wolf running around infecting everyone then they would be hunted down by their own kind to stop it!! DUH!!! Another point where I noticed laziness in the film is when Selene gets shot like 5 times in the back and then she takes her coat off and her shiny leather spandex body suit thingy is still nice and clean and shiny, without a single bullet hole. I guess vamps have regenerating spandex too....
In short, I am mad at whoever was involved in this production in every possible way... but the CGI was cool.