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Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz
Why are they fighting again? Never you mind. Just sit tight till the next action sequence (it won't be long), and get ready to laugh - with equal parts scorn and fanboy joy - as Beckinsale strikes another Rodinesque pose under a slo-mo shower of inhuman innards.
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Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence. But Selene lovers would pay good 3D money to see her fight a parking ticket.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Glenn Whipp
A brisk creature-feature that ditches the series' dreary mythology in favor of a more direct, action-oriented approach.
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50
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The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
More aggressively violent and thankfully less mythology driven than previous installments, Underworld: Awakening is strictly for the converted.
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Boston Globe Tom Russo
A sequel seemingly eager to assert that monster mashes are about B-movie chills not "Twilight'' melodrama. Eager to a fault, ultimately.
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40
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Empire Kim Newman
Not a complete disaster, but also not the vampire / werewolf mash we've always wanted.
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35
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Movieline
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.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Kate Beckinsale can still fill out a skin-tight leather bodysuit, but with Awakening, the vampires-vs-werewolves Underworld franchise has finally decayed beyond the point of repair.
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12
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Slant Magazine
The only thing that manages to outpace Underworld: Awakening's ineptitude is its utter soullessness.
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Latest, dreadful entry in the vampires-battling-werewolves franchise.
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