Also missing... most of the so-called Lycans who, their appearance in a few respectable action sequences notwithstanding, are now nearly extinct. So is this franchise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 1, 2012

Selene's return is a welcome one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012

Once again, Beckinsale brings an impressive physicality and subzero cool to her portrayal of Selene.

| Jan 23, 2012

Kate Beckinsale's "Selene" remains one-note, but it's a wildly entertaining note.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 23, 2012

The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2012

The most generic entry of the bunch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2012

There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2012

A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2012

Beckinsale's Selene is back with a vengeance, that famous black catsuit and two fully cocked pistols, having wisely sat out the wretched third installment of the franchise. Don't expect much more than this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 21, 2012

with Awakening, the vampires-vs-werewolves Underworld franchise has finally decayed beyond the point of repair.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 21, 2012

The only thing that manages to outpace Underworld: Awakening's ineptitude is its utter soullessness.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 20, 2012

The entire production is single-mindedly, earnestly devoted to serving up feats of BADASS, and it succeeds in this devotion to the exclusion of everything else.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2012

[The] latest, dreadful entry in the vampires-battling-werewolves franchise.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 20, 2012

Crude, cheap and pointless, this surely drives a stake through the heart of the 'Underworld' franchise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2012

Not a complete disaster, but also not the vampire / werewolf mash we've always wanted.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2012

Of all the movies whose makers designate them as crap by not screening them in advance for critics, forcing me to go to a multiplex in vampire hours and write a review in a sour overnight stupor, Underworld Awakening is one of the best.

| Jan 20, 2012

Watching the film is strangely like looking at the same three still frames of supernatural battles over and over for 90 minutes.

| Original Score: D- | Jan 20, 2012

Murky and perpetually bluish in tinge, Underworld: Awakening does and gets little with the 3-D in which it's being offered, and ends by shamelessly setting up a further and fatally unnecessary installment.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Jan 20, 2012

It's not awful enough to be considered truly dreadful but it's just shockingly asleep for a movie subtitled "Awakening."

| Original Score: 1.5/5.0 | Jan 20, 2012

More aggressively violent and thankfully less mythology-driven than previous installments, Underworld: Awakening is strictly for the converted.

| Jan 20, 2012