Review: 'Underworld 4: Awakening 3D
Film: Underworld 4: Awakening (3D)
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, India Eisley, Micheal Ealy, Theo James, Stephen Rea
Director: Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein
Rating: *1/2
Sometimes you just feel good that the film is in 3 D, because its absence could have made the situation
worse. 'Underworld 4: Awakening' takes six more months to start after the third franchise's time period.
Underworld 4 looks and feels like an extended TV episode, rather than a big-budget feature film. This is
mainly due to the amateurish direction of Swedish duo Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, whose primary
experience is in directing TV, as it so happens. The film is nothing more than a string of action
sequences and cheap set-pieces, often shot at wide angles that reveal the elementary (and by now,
routine) fight choreography. Cheap CGI effects make the blood spatter, superhuman feats and supernatural
creatures look no better than something you might see on an episode of Supernatural or True Blood.
Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene,
who escapes 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.
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