Movie Time: Underworld Awakening

I go to the movies very often. It's become sort of a weekly ritual with my dad, every Sunday, we go to the movie theater and watch a movie. I know we're thursday, but we were both free today and we saw this film:

Vampires vs Werewolves: Rise of the humans

I found it to be fairly entertaining if a bit silly and a bit short. i must admit that I didn't see any of the other films in the series, so I came in knowing only that it's about a crazy vampire chick who kills vampires and werewolves. The following entry will contain spoilers for the movie. So, y'know, if you want to be surprised by the scenes in which Kate Beckinsale in a black leather suit kills a bunch of people, don't read this.

In a Nutshell
Vampires and Werewolves are a thing. Humans finally wake up and discover them in the 2000s and kill them. Some vampire lady that's good at killing people is captured. She escapes and kills people and werewolves.

The Rant

Of course, i can't help but rant about this movie! After all, this is the point of this post!

firstly, maybe it's explained at theend of the previous film, but... Why didn't humans know about vampires and werewolves? They've been active for centuries and suddenly humans realize that werewolves and vampires are "A Thing" and successfully purge most of them? i don't know, it's kind of weirdly convenient. As soon as people learn of vampires BAM, no secret shit, no team of elite vampire hunter, just full-on purge.

Secondly, I found it really funny how the vampires have a culture that apparently revolves around dressing in black leather and moping around in castle replicas. I found it kind of hilarious. The vampires are just so stereotypical in that and apparently it's their culture. i mean, come on, they build their hideout in caves and it just looks like the inside of an old Gothic castle, with chandeliers and candlesticks everywhere even though their hideout is in a hydroelectric dam. And they're proud of their Gothic cultures, of course.

Moving on, I liked how this movie had a mix of practical effects and CGI, but at the same time, i couldn't decide which looked fakest, the weird werewolf costumes or the obviously CGI werewolves. The metamorphosis effects were pretty neat, though, but I feel movies ought to stick to practical effects OR CGI, not, like, use both because then you get scenes where the werewolves look completely different from those in a previous scene. 

I didn't like how the Vampires were all so easily killed by the werewolves. it's like Selene is a super special vampire that's nigh invincible and can heal from a bullet to the head with a gulp of blood, but every other vampire is just a regular dude in goth clothes. I don't think just getting their throats nibbled on should've killed all the vampires in the lair fight scenes. Then again, maybe werewolves are vampire kryptonite in the Underworld movies? I liked the lair fight scenes, especially against the giant werewolf, that had a real Castlevania feel to it, I found. 

My Score

It was entertaining, I must've burst out laughing at least three times at the sheer ridiculousness. There was lots of action, lots of violence, and there is characters that are not completely one dimensional!

I give it a "Fun" out of 5.