Selene comes back... as a bitch!

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2012)

... I know indiscriminate murder seems to solve most problems in these flicks, but I had no idea 12 years of cryo treatment turned someone into a bitch.
Because that's what Selene is in Underworld: Awakening. Indiscriminate murder seems to be her answer to everything. I know love makes people blind, but Selene was always level-headed in the previous movies. Amazing combatant, but always rational. Here, she's on a killing rampage. Evidently "incapacitation" isn't in her dictionary.
The story itself is unremarkable; no twists, no revelations, no lasting impacts. The action is the same too; flying through air, jumping, twirling, pirouetting. It seems like Resident Evil gone vamp; but we already have Resident Evil for that kind of action, and Twilight for Werewolf/Vamp love flick, rendering this movie pointless.
Kate Beckinsale definitely aged, and that shows. She is no longer the cool-headed assassin that we all knew, but rather this bloodthirsty bitch (sorry for the repetitive expletive, but I lack the proper word to describe her as anything else) who seems to think stabbing people indiscriminately and killing them will get her to her goal. Some of her kills seem utterly pointless, and I ended up feeling more for the "baddies" who end up getting killed than Selene. That's not a good sign for this kind of action movie. There are almost no humane interaction between Selene and anyone either. It almost feels as if I'm watching Kate Beckinsale do gymnastics in the air in black spandex with blood spewing about.
I have absolutely no idea what they were thinking when they wrote the script, but they were certainly getting lazy with one-liners and lack of dialogue. Save an hour and half of your time and go watch the 1st Underworld. Then the 2nd. And then the 3rd. And stop there.