Genre:
Action/Fantasy/Thriller
Directed by:
Starring:
Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy
Release date:
Fri 20, Jan 2012
Budget $70 million
Box office $160,112,671
Underworld: Awakening is a 2012 American 3D action horror
film directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. It is the fourth installment in
the Underworld film series, with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as Selene.
Theo James, Michael Ealy, and India Eisley appeared in new roles to the series.
Filming began March 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The film was
released in Digital 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D theatres on January 20, 2012.
Plot
Six months after the events of Underworld: Evolution, humans
have captured the priority vampire target, Selene, during "The
Purge", a global military crusade to exterminate Vampires and Lycans.
Vampires have waged guerrilla warfare against the government, but the humans
have overrun them, forcing survivors to hide underground and resist the humans
on their own.
Twelve years later, human governments have concluded their
campaigns against the vampires and lycans. They have annihilated 95% of the
vampire race and believe the lycans to be extinct. Selene, dubbed "Subject
1", is freed from cryogenic suspension by "Subject 2" and
escapes the medical corporation, Antigen. The corporation is ostensibly trying
to make an antidote for the virus that creates vampires and lycans. Selene has
strange visions that she follows, believing them to be linked to her lover, the
lycan-vampire hybrid Michael Corvin. The visions lead her to a building where
she encounters David, a fellow vampire. While talking to David, Selene has
another vision and discovers a young girl, Eve. Eve is revealed to
be a hybrid and the daughter of Selene and Michael. David, noting that Eve has
been injured by the lycans and is not healing, takes her and Selene to his
coven. David's father, Thomas, does not welcome them, blaming Selene for
provoking the destruction of the vampires. Thomas tells her that Michael died
twelve years ago. A vampire woman offers some of her blood to the wounded Eve,
who appears unaware of the effects of drinking it. With Selene's encouragement,
she accepts the gift and quickly heals.
Dr. Jacob Lane, director of Antigen, is revealed to be a
lycan along with his son, Quint. The "antidote" the corporation has
been working on is actually a drug designed to make lycans immune to the deadly
effects of silver on their species and to enhance their physical abilities.
Eve's genetic code is required to achieve this, so Lane sends Quint with other
lycans to the vampire coven to recapture her. Expecting a human attack, David
tries rallying the vampires' resistances to fight back, while his father orders
everyone to evacuate and hide. Most of the vampires arm themselves heavily.
Unexpectedly, lycans arrive in large numbers, and numerous vampires are
slaughtered, a huge blow to the coven as they assume that humans and lycans are
now working together. Selene encounters a "super lycan", later
revealed to be Quint, whose body is changed by injections containing Eve's
genetic material. Selene is knocked unconscious during the fight, Eve is turned
over to the lycans by Thomas in exchange for their departure, and David is
mortally wounded. Selene decides to save Eve but first revives David using the
ultra-rarefied immortal blood given to her by Alexander Corvinus in Evolution.
Selene enlists the help of Detective Sebastian, a human who
tried to investigate Antigen. Sebastian agrees to help save Eve, admitting he
was married to a nurse who became a vampire. The two of them tried living
together as husband and wife, but when authorities were going door to door
killing vampires and lycans, his wife exposed herself to the daylight rather
than suffer at the hands of humans. Selene destroys part of Antigen's
headquarters using silver gas explosives, forcing Dr. Lane to move Eve out of
the building to perform an operation that will create more of the lycan
super-serum. Selene escapes the lycans in the building and finds Michael
cryogenically frozen, puncturing his cell with a gunshot to defrost him.
Escaping in a van, Dr. Lane is intercepted by Sebastian, and then by Selene,
who causes the van to crash. Quint arrives and fights Selene.
Eve awakens on her stretcher, freeing herself and fighting
Dr. Lane, who has injected himself with the super-serum. Sebastian and David
aid Eve in her fight and she kills Dr. Lane while Selene kills Quint.
Selene attempts to free Michael but finds he has already
escaped. Eve, telepathically seeing through Michael's eyes, learns he is on the
roof. Selene, Eve and David run to the roof, only to discover that Michael has
already gone. In a voiceover narration Selene concludes with her determination
to reunite with Michael and take back the world from the humans and lycans.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 Sept. 2012. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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This film is very intersting!
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