A lot of fun but mildly flawed

Rating: 9/10 (28 September 2012)

After the discovery of both species is discovered by humanity, vampire Selene is captured only to awaken years in the future where she must protect her daughter from the vicious Lycans intending to use her in their crusade to wipe out the vampires.
Overall this was an extremely fun and extremely enjoyable entry in the franchise that contains a lot to really love about it. One of the main things with this one is the fact that, as an action movie it hardly fails since we get numerous scenes of outstanding spectacle that are quite fun. From the opening dispatch of the police squad hunting them down in the apartment complex that's filled with great hand-to-hand fighting, gunfire and even impressive fireballs due to plenty of explosive action undertaken, mixed together with an exciting visual flair that serves the scene well, it's got a lot of action here at times. Other big action scenes are the escape from the laboratory where she rips apart the guards in fine fashion and leads into a terrific car- chase trying to get away while the werewolves try to get inside but are stopped in graphic fashion, the ambush on the vampire lair offers plenty of blazing gunfights and even lots of great gore as this gets exceptionally bloody, and there's an exceptional bullet-riddled shootout here to overtake the command center which features some fantastic stunt- work and gunfights so there's plenty of action-packed fun here. Another big factor here is perhaps the film's finest point in how it escalates the story of their war against each other. By including a new form of the werewolves with the hulking monstrosity featured as part of the story about regenerating their numbers and evolving to fight on, allows even more fun to be had in the parking lot finale where it gets a chance to showcase itself nicely. That, though, introduces the film's two main problems, in an over-abundance of lame and pedestrian CGI that really ruins the entire sequence as the whole thing appears to be shot in that manner and it's an extended, drawn-out battle so there's plenty of time to grow irritated at the practice. Of course, it's only so long because of the sudden change in the creature's personality, which is maddeningly inconsistent since it's more interested in throwing her around instead of just killing her swiftly like it's done to all the others it's encountered before. Still, it's not all that bad and really is quite watchable.
Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and children-in-jeopardy.