Underworld: Awakening [Blu-ray 3D] [3D Blu-ray]

This was packaged very well.

I waited to see this movie because it was so short on running time that I could not feel good about paying the same price for movies at least 30 mins longer or more that are just as enjoyable on the big screen. That is just the practical side of my ideas about spending my money on films.I can only hope that this "movie" which is only 1:22 not including the credits which are almost 10 minutes long with at least three different hairdressers listed in three different locations on the credits roll just for Ms. Beckinsale. Whoa, that's a lot of hair manipulation for someone with a short hair style. I wonder how many "Trinity" had with the change from greased down to short and scruffy? And it's not just that, but it seems that there are literally three entire sets of credits from the Gaffers and Grips to the CGI & FX makeup teams. I was also surprise that Ms. Beckinsale had not one dime of her own money into this project since the franchise has been a successful one.But now onto the movie itself... WARNING WARNING - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!As I said - I can only hope this is a long teaser for a new cycle of movies with or without Ms. Beckinsale. She is starting to get along in years and playing an immortal character that does not age or get more "mature looking" has got to be considered if the stories are to continue as well if Scott Speedman is no longer going to be the other leading immortal character of Michael Corvinus (sp?)The story shows Selene getting blown apart from her man Michael by some sort of UV grenade by the mortal police forces in the beginning. We next see her frozen (tastefully not naked although very obviously nude in the container) with very well place fog and other obstacles, escaping with some help from a cyro-freezer after what turns out to be 12 years into a world without Lycans, and very few Vampires. It's told that she (Selene) is labeled Patient #1 as it blares across the warning system. And that she has "some sort of" special connection and link with patient #2. It's announced that both can each see through the eyes of the other. Naturally we the audience thinks it is Michael who is patient #2. But it's actually Selene's 12 year old daughter who is a human-hybrid mostly looking like Michael with the blue/black eyes and nearly black skin color change. She's never been outside, never fed as a Vampire, etc. But she knows she's Mom when she sees her and vice-versa.Those familiar with the first two movies which of the three are the only ones with Selene in them and time line is from the beginning of movie 1 thru the end of movie 2. One long storyline which I thought worked very well. I'm just trying to keep with Selene/Michael for this is long enough already.Here are just a few of the many things I have a problem with in this movie...1) Vampires are "dead" beings, they cannot have children - yet Selene has a child during her 12 years of being captured and frozen.2) Michael did "die" in the middle of movie 2 but Selene fed him blood that she had after being given the 100% "pure blood" of the first of both sides of the immortal creatures in this storyline "Grandpa" Corvinus himself (such a nice guy for an immortal who did nothing except have more money than can be counted, hire very loyal people to "clean up" Vampire and Lycan "messes", etc. and allowed himself to be killed by his Vampire son.) which gave her enough strength to beat the first Vampire ever who would be the strongest as in this storyline age equals abilities and strength as well as the blood it comes from....However, since Michael died, he might have been brought back, but he was brought back in the Vampire way of becoming UNdead. Not alive as he found out when trying to eat solid food which caused him great physical pain - this was shown in the first movie when he was just Lycan. So - how can two dead people produce a child??? This is one BIG problem for me and nothing was even mentioned about it in this movie.Then we see the Vampires are actually far worse off than the Lycans, because the Lycans kept themselves hidden during the 1st & 2nd "Purge" as the movie calls the human eradication of all Lycans and Vampires. Really?? That must have been one bunch of sissy Vampires with no elders to lead them to be decimated to near extinction by humans. Same for the Lycans or so everyone thought, but nope...the Lycans in the great tradition of Lucian. Sneaky and seemingly much smarter when it comes to staying alive and powerful. Now we have Dinosaur sized Lycan due to years of experimentation by the Lycans who were thought to be humans using the blood of Selene, of daughter and yep - you guessed the ending...Michael. The first Lycan Vampire hybrid which would make him extremely powerful, but the daughter has BOTH original Corvinus blood which makes her immune to Daylight, as well as Silver, and pretty much everything else that would destroy typical Vampires and Werewolves.So now we have the ultimate undead family of good hearted, but very fierce, Uber-Vampire Selene aka Mom, 1st hybrid Lycan that all other Lycans were supposed to yield to as shown in the ending of the first movie, and the Uber being with everything on the positive side for being powerful with not one single weakness...Mama & Daddy's little girl. And with all that, it's very possible that she is also a triple threat - the daughter I think is mostly plain ole human on top of the duality of being a hybrid Lycan/Vampire. One older doctor Vampire Lady was looking for her original bite marks and couldn't find any. Of course not, she wasn't turned, she was...born??? How exactly did that happen, or is this a test-tube kinda thing?? Again...no idea from this movie.And all this with no real explanations about most things that had happened in 12 years of Cryo-Sleep (hmmm - "Ripley" was asleep for 57 years), lots of very good FX, some excellent fight scenes and very excellence kill shots and other well done gore FX. Now what?Yes - all that I typed just to sum up what this movie only put into motion with an ending that certainly screams...NEXT MOVIE COMING UP!! But who, where, what, why, etc., etc. It's all set in the near future, but if Selene's last thoughts were of getting the Vampires back to the top of the food chain and powerful and a collective nation...Doesn't this seem a bit much like Blade 2 or 3 except that the Vampires are the "good guys"?Did this help or just make everything much more confusing?

This now completes the series for me until which time the 2-part "in-between" is released!

I mean it's just what you expect, only less Michael as the series goes forward.

Nice

I loved the movie. I like that Selene had a daughter. I'm wondering what will happen to Eve. Who she will meet, what her life will be like now that she is not a science experiment????? Will Michael find out about Eve?What I do not like about the movie is that Michael was nowhere to be found. The romance between Michael and Selene is dry. I know Selene and Michael never had a chance to get to know each other because of all the vampire and Lycan war. Which opens more questions?? Everyone knows that Lucian and Sonja Viktor's daughter fell in love and that is why the war started to begin with. We all read the books and saw the movies. The love between them was made believable. I fell in-love with the characters to the point that it saddened me the Lucian died.In the case of Michael and Selene there was no love not like Sonja and Lucian. They had a child together but that is it. Why did they fall for one another????? Why is Selene so obsessed in being with Michael???? Sometimes I think that they are together because they are attracted to one another. They got caught in the heat of the moment, and Eve was created. I believe that Michael does not love Selene but only is attracted to her. She the only one who is keeping him alive.Why did they fall in love so fast? I like an explanation to all this.I want more of Viktor and Llona history.More about Marcus life as a vampire and what about Marcus son, what ever happened to him?Bring Viktor back, and Lucian I don't care if there dead. Michael and Selene meet and in 3 days Viktor, Lucian and Amelia are dead. Marcus is dead as well, but they never had time to stop and think, hey is this love I feel for you or is it something like a one night stand. Michael was pushed into this Lycan and Vampire war. He never imagined that he'd be in some strange underworld with a VAMPIRE named Selene with super human strength. In the next movie I like more love and action fighting parts too, but more love. What will happen to them will their relationship last when everything ends? Bad idea leaving Michael out of the movie. Not good.The Underworld series was great and the plots were fabulous. A WOMAN saved a human Man's life hundreds of times. That is the reason why I love the movies. I mean, this man runs for his life gets into trouble and Selene the warrior Death Dealer comes to the rescue. That's great! No more Twilight NICE Bella with a male vamp who comes to help, helpless Bella.

Great film..

Super génial

Valeu a pena, filmaço!

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