Underworld: Awakening

Rating: 3/10 (20 October 2012)

The first Underworld was terrible, the sequel Evolution was also terrible, and the following prequel Rise of the Lycans was okay, and as soon as I saw the rating for this latest sequel I knew what sort of thing to expect. Basically it picks up from where the second film left off, twelve years later, where the human race are aware of the threat and war between the races of the vampires and the werewolf Lycans, and they are trying to eradicate both, and vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is trying to escape the resistance, alongside rare vampire-werewolf hybrid creature Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman). It is after escaping a cryogenic chamber in a laboratory to find a cure for the vampire and werewolf curses and attacks that she meets vampire David (Theo James), and she discovers that they may two of the last remaining of their kind of Earth after the years of eradication, and they were the subjects of Dr. Jacob Lane (The Crying Game's Stephen Rea). Selene discovers that she shares the visions of Michael, and believes at some point she may be able to track him, but she also finds out she has a twelve year old daughter, Eve (India Eisley), who also came from the laboratory, and it is up to her mother and David to protect the girl against the Lycans. I will be honest and say that I didn't pay the fullest attention to everything going on, I did understand it just about, but that just shows how little I was probably interested in the first place. Also starring Charles Dance as Thomas, Michael Ealy as Detective Sebastian and Sandrine Holt as Lida. Just like the previous films the cast of a fair few well known stars was fine, although it could have done with Michael Sheen or Bill Nighy, the special effects are certainly improved and slightly more impressive, and the action sequences are just about exciting enough, but I can't get over the fact that it feels just like the other previous films, and that is not a good thing, a not very good horror. Adequate!