It’s been 9 years since the original Underworld movie, and Kate Beckinsale still looks as hot as ever in her black leather jump suit.
Assuming you are already familiar with the premise, Awakening is the 4th movie in this series. Let’s hope it is the last, as it’s a dying a slow painful death. Unfortunately, much like a vampire, I’m afraid it might keep coming back to life, worse-for-wear each time. This is by far the worst Underworld sequel yet. Calling it disappointing is an understatement. They couldn’t even find enough crappy footage to edit together a full hour and a half. Not that we’d want this half hearted crap-piece to be any longer.
It’s basically a one woman shoot. Kate is on camera almost all the time we aren’t seeing some CGI jumping around. The cast is almost entirely extras and nobodies, accept for two standouts; Theo James and Charles Dance. Theo had few lines, but had great stage presence. They made it appear like he’d end up taking the male lead, however, no one takes the male lead here, just a bunch of guys with a few lines here and there. And Charles Dance is an amazing actor. They didn’t take advantage of him in the least. I think he may have been on screen for a total of 2 minutes, and they made him out to be a wuss.
The movie spends the whole time teasing us with the appearance of Scott Speedman as Michael, but that never happens, they obviously couldn’t get him for the movie. So instead they talk about and search for his character the whole time, and even show him frozen in the tube.
The writing, the plot, the use of actors, this whole Underworld episode sucks!
4/10