Underworld: Awakening (2012)

     When i saw the first Underworld movie so many years ago my immediate response was "Huh, that was pretty cool" and after spending oh so much time thinking about Kate Beckinsale in all that leather (And not thinking about anything else at all) i actually had a chance to reflect on the movie i think it was actually quiet good. A modern day war between Vampires and Werewolves (Lycans as this series dubs them) with big gun fights and incredibly gory deaths made a pretty damn enjoyable movie. It wasn't perfect but it was definitely fun. 


     Then we had the sequel, which was equally good; Better effects, better writing, and on many levels it had bigger bad-assier action. It looked like this series could go up and up indefinitely. Then they made Rise of the Lycans, a prequel story that took a flashback from the first film and expanded it to a whole movie, explaining the begging of the war. A cool concept that was let down with lesser action and lesser Kate Beckinsale in leather who honestly made the first movies a whole hell of a lot better.


     And now after a brief hiatus we return with the fourth movie, entitled Awakening. The begging fills in the plot very well ; over the last several years humans have discovered vampires and werewolves, and have mounted their own offensive against both races wiping them out almost completely. During a second attempt to wipe out the remainder of the two races , our protagonist Selene (Kate Beckinsale in leather) is captured by an organisation whose goal is to find a cure for vampirism and lycanthropey. After years of being frozen she breaks out with the help of a mysterious young girl who seems to be her daughter made in the labs of the company and has to figure out what  happened to the world around her,


     and is it good? 


     Ya it's pretty good. The start is a tad slower than previous movies in the series but once it gets going at a good clip it definitely has some epic gory fights with guns and knives and claws and whips and car chases and blood and guts... and then it  suddenly ends around what feels like half an hour too soon. Which is what feels weirdest, i guess there's so much set up for the plot that there ends up being much less time for all the super action fight scenes and then when you get to what is clearly the final fight of the plot the movie feels kinda short and undercut. Which is a shame, becuase its as long as the first film running at about two hours i expected them to get a lot more done. However they did do there best to set up few new characters and some new plot points so that the next couple movies in the series will have more to work with. So i guess its good for what it is, but i still wish there was more to be seen. 


Its like a B-