Underworld: Awakening

Once again, the powerful vampire Selene rises in the age-old struggle between vampires and lycans. However, this time, the game has shifted. The common prey, humans, have discovered the existence of vampires and lycans both, and are now united in an active struggle to erase both species for the face of the earth. Unique amongst her kind, Selene is captured and held for 20 years in a secure laboratory, until she finally manages to escape. However, as she rediscovers the world she used to know, something else got away from the humans, something that could prove the destruction of everyone if it isn’t found and controlled...

This fourth episode of the Underworld saga takes the tables and completely turns them over. Both setting and situation are different, with the humans now out for blood as well. Then, in comes Selene, who after 20 years of captivity has no more landmarks anywhere. She must fight for her life, and she knows only one way, though it may prove more dangerous than helpful. Through this unexpected twist of plot, directors Mårlind and Stein offer us a refreshed and renewed saga. Ironically though, this episode also partly renews with the style of the first instalment: the action does not entirely make up the film, but runs in parallel with a desperate need to understand this new and strange world. As young Michael, in his time, was left confused over what he thought was real, so now must Selene make sense of what is around her.

Other than that, Underworld: Awakening preserves all the other elements that kept the series going so far. Dark atmosphere, Action-packed, Adrenaline-charged, this movie proceeds at breakneck pace as the world converges upon the characters with the firm intent of crushing them if they don’t do something about it.