Bad video-game like movie with cardboard cutout characters

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2017)

I'm not a big fan of the Underworld movie franchise but I enjoyed the first two installments and after the prequel setting of the below-average third movie, I was interested what would become of the Selene and Michael story. Turned out I haven't missed much.
This movie starts with a brief re-cap of what happened in the first two movies. After that it is explained that the vampires and lycans are discovered by the rest of mankind, who want to wipe both species out. Selene fights hard against the humans, searching for Michael which she finds in the harbor. Unfortunately, a grenade hits the both of them just after they find each other and all goes black for Selene. She wakes up a long time later from cryogenic sleep in a laboratory, having no idea what has happened to Michael or the other vampires. Selene now has to find out where the remaining vampires are, if the lycans are still a threat and how she mysteriously woke up from her sleep..
While the story is 'okay-ish', this is a very weak and sometimes laughably bad movie. Okay, I know these movies are not supposed to be taken to seriously but the characters are so weak, the CGI so horrible and the action so over the top that it's just bad. The only character with more then two lines of background is Selene and only if you watched the previous installments. Nothing new is added to her character, no development at all. And I'm supposed to believe that she cannot be damaged at all? She gets elevators dropped on top of her, cars thrown against her but nothing can hurt her, or her outfit. She also can bring people back from the dead by sticking her hand inside them and grabbing their heart..? WTF?
The other characters are just there to be killed off or given a few lines to help the plot along. You are supposed to care about some characters but because they are just cardboard cutouts, you just laugh at the horrible bad effects when they get killed or kill lycans. There is a car chase scene with lycans pursuing the heroes but it looked so bad that I was just laughing. I have seen video game cut scenes from the 90's with better effects.
So yeah, unless your a big fan of the franchise best leave this movie in the garbage bin. Stick to the first two movies and write your own ending for the franchise, it will be better then this pile of manure.