Once the rumors for Christopher Nolan's last Batman movie started
popping up and there were rumblings about Catwoman being used, I was
hoping to see Kate Beckinsale take the role. She would have been my
personal choice, but Nolan decided to give that role to Anne Hathaway
instead. Although Beckinsale won't get to play Selina Kyle, she does get
to star as Selene again in Underworld Awakening, which is the fourth
installment of the Underworld movie series.
After Selene
(Beckinsale) escapes imprisonment, she enters a world where humans have
discovered the existence of both the Vampire race and the Lycans. The
humans are now on a mission to eliminate both groups and also find a
cure for what they consider a disease. Selene has to fight for her life
and get to the bottom of what may turn into a full-blown conspiracy.
Outside
of an interesting opening sequence that explains the movie's plot,
Underworld Awakening got off to a faulty start. They start by showing
humans destroying the Vampires and Lycans in an attempt to wipe them
out. How is it possible that the humans are dominating and killing
vampires and Lycans in the first place? According to Underworld, the
Lycans are extremely strong, aggressive and dangerous. The Vampires are
not as strong, but they are much stronger than humans and are so fast
that they can appear to vanish at times while moving. I can understand
being able to take down the Lycans using silver bullets or whatever to
get rid of them, but what about the vampires? Those guys are almost
impossible to kill right?
To make matters worse, Selene starts
mowing down all of these humans by herself time she hits the screen.
This would make sense if the part in the paragraph above didn't happen.
The weapons being used were killing the vampires at one point, but they
just seem to be useless against her. I don't know how that is supposed
to make sense. You're easily killing a bunch of vampires early on, but
now one of them is slicing through a whole gang of humans at once? This
was just one of the many inconsistencies in Underworld Awakening that I
can point out. There are more, but discussing them would ruin it for
anyone who wants to see it.
Despite all of that, the action was
solid at times and at least watchable at its worst. If that's the only
thing that you want to see then you might like this movie. The problems
mainly arise from the movie having holes in nearly every possible aspect
of the film and having things contradict themselves so often. I was
kind of surprised at how many holes the film had and how they didn't
even appear to try to cover them up. It was kind of weird when you think
about it.
There wasn't much acting in Underworld Awakening,
because it really wasn't necessary. The only person that failed in that
department was India Eisley. I don't know if I can truly say that she
was behind the failure, because her character was just bad and it seemed
like it was more out of a TV-14 cartoon than an R rated movie. She did
however pull off a believable British accent.
Speaking of accents,
what country were they supposed to be in? Based on the license plates
in the film, I think they were in Europe, but I don't know for sure.
Eisley and many others had British accents, but Michael Ealy and Stephen
Rae had American accents. Ealy was supposed to be a detective, but what
are the chances of an American being a cop in Europe? Eisley's
character was supposed to be born in a laboratory and never let outside,
but if they're in America, how would she get a British accent? I guess
you can say that this was just another one of the movie's
inconsistencies.
Since I like Beckinsale and Ealy was in one of my
favorite TV shows, I wanted this to succeed. That didn't happen and I
have to fault the director and a terrible script for that. I wasn't
surprised that Underworld Awakening didn't include much substance, but I
would've expected a better effort from the creators of the film. It
looks like they didn't even try and that sucks in reality. If they make
another one, I hope they have more quality to put around the solid
action. If they do, then it will most likely be a good movie.
Score: 2/5
Rating: R
Director: Måns Mårlind
Cast:
Kate Beckinsale
Stephen Rea
Michael Ealy
Theo James
India Eisley
Snadrine Holt
Kate Beckinsale
Stephen Rea
Michael Ealy
Theo James
India Eisley
Snadrine Holt
Film Length: 88 minutes
Release Date: Jamuary 20, 2012
Distributor: Screen Gems
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