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Underworld: Awakening Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyJoe Leydon

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

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• 70

  out of 100

  TimeRichard Corliss

  Not quite in the class of the first film, Underworld 4 is still the most enlightened girl-power film of the week, nosing out Gina Carano's "Haywire" by the length of Pinocchio's proboscis.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Village VoiceNick Pinkerton

  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. Allegedly in 3-D, though I didn't notice at the time.

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• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyAdam 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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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesGlenn 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

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck

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

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