Underworld: Awakening
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Tagline: Vengeance Returns
Kate Beckinsale crops up two weeks running in Friday Flicks, this time returning to the Underworld franchise. Beckinsale starred in the first two films, and is back in number four as the vampire warrior Selene. She’s escaped imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. In short, if Citizen Kane got a sequel, it would probably play out in this manner.
But never mind Citizen Kane. Unfortunately for Underworld, if Haywire is an indication of how to make action films feel relevant, the critics don’t have the same kind of feeling for what’s going on here. In fact they’ve barely reviewed it, which we imagine is because the studio didn’t screen it which, to put it mildly, is never an encouraging sign. In the words of The Scotsman, “Yet more vampire vs werewolf battles from the fang franchise that is even more boring than Twilight. Strictly for completists.” Bet there’s a fifth film before you know it.