Underworld: Awakening

2012 88 min ★ 6.3 Fantasy, Action, Horror

Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed 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. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.

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Cast

Kate Beckinsale

Selene

Stephen Rea

Dr. Jacob Lane

Michael Ealy

Detective Sebastian

Theo James

David

India Eisley

Eve

Charles Dance

Thomas

Sandrine Holt

Lida

Sanny van Heteren

British newscaster

Jacob Blair

Kolb (Officer)

Robert Lawrenson

Waterfront Cop

Details

Director

Måns Mårlind

Screenplay

J. Michael Straczynski

Tagline

"Vengeance Returns"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$70,000,000

Revenue

$160,112,671

Production

Screen Gems, Lakeshore Entertainment, Sketch Films, UW4 Productions

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

June 6, 2015

★ 5/10

Repetitive script for a very badly done mass up of FX. In addition, the cut of the movie is not properly done with scenes that seems to be unrelated one after another. They should have left it after the first, good movie.

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John Chard

October 17, 2015

★ 6/10

I dreamt of the day we would meet. Like a silly little girl. You're as cold as one already dead. Popcorn bonanza as the Underworld series passes by in a whirl of effects driven action. Kate Beckinsale returns as super sexy - latex wearing - vampire Selene, after having skipped the third movie, here added into the mix is that Selene is searching for her hybrid daughter, while the pesky humans ar...

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Dr Nostromo

July 5, 2026

★ 7/10

69/100 4th film in the timeline, Selene & Michael's peace, after killing the elders, is short-lived as humans discover the vampires and lycans. After begin captured and put on ice for 12 years, Selene wakes up to find their races have been purged nearly to extinction ...and she has a daughter. With, I'm assuming, a smaller budget, the CGI is pretty blatant in this one but the story's solid (eve...