Underworld: Awakening

Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as Selene, the Vampire who kicks butt, in this fourth installment of the Underworld series.  This one is just as dark as all the others but takes place in the future.  The humans have come to realize that there is a threat out there of both Vampires and Lycans (werewolves) and they pose a threat to humanity so must be destroyed.  Selene is caught and put on ice for study and wakes up in the future not knowing what has happened and realizing that she has a daughter.  The action that ensues afterward is gory and fast paced.

This is not a screen actors dream come true.  There isn't much in the way of great acting.  Even the newcomer India Eisley who plays Selene's teenage daughter is void of many emotions.  There is also no love story in this one.  Its vampire vs. lycan vs. human story that has what most people would think about when they imagine throwing all of these beings into a room and shaking it up to see what would happen.  This isn't Twilight in any sense, the vampires don't sparkle and the werewolves aren't Calvin Klein models.  This is Underworld were the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are bad.

The movie has a very dark tone to it.  Even in 3-D its hard to see from all the black that is flying around but the extreme actions and fast pace of the movie make it a little interesting in 3-D.  As mentioned before there is a lot of killing which in this case leads to a lot of blood and gore.  There are curse words and the gore and blood alone I would say one should keep the little children away from this movie.  The creatures alone could cause nightmares in the younger crowds.  I would recommend keeping this one to the older teens and above.

If you are looking for a love story than this one isn't for you.  If you want to take a date to a movie and they are huge Twi-Hards than this isn't for them.  There are no sparkly vampires and no unrequited love story.  Its an action flick plain and simple.  You go to this one to watch Kate Beckinsale wearing very tight clothes and kicking butt.  Throw in some guns, explosions and chopping off of extremities and you have the action flick you wanted to watch.