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craigoxbrow) wrote2012-02-09 12:40 am
craigoxbrow) wrote2012-02-09 12:40 am
Going Under
Underworld Awakening could have really done with a joke somewhere. Like, one even.
Something I've wanted three films running actually happens! Admittedly only for about five minutes.
Nice uses of 3D, mostly in the first few minutes but scattered here and there.
A somewhat clever plot, just in the background.
Humans have lines! Always a surprise.
Charles Dance doing a great Viktor impression.
(Still, that whole sequence would have been more fun with an old friend of Selene's popping up in charge of the hidden vampires, like our Soph as Erika, understandably pissed off with her turning up after twelve years of peace and quiet and bringing action sequences to her doorstep.)
Nice soundtrack CD, which is previewed in the end credits rather than actually in the film to any degree.
Trenchcoat-love amusingly lampshaded. So there are some funny moments, but they're all at the expense of the material and I wonder how many were actually intentional.
Blarg.
Trailers: The Woman In Black, something with Denzel Washington teaming up with Ryan Reynolds to shoot lots of people, John Carter, Ghost Rider apparently being the first example in some time of a reboot with the same star, Star Wars 1 3D.
Something I've wanted three films running actually happens! Admittedly only for about five minutes.
Nice uses of 3D, mostly in the first few minutes but scattered here and there.
A somewhat clever plot, just in the background.
Humans have lines! Always a surprise.
Charles Dance doing a great Viktor impression.
(Still, that whole sequence would have been more fun with an old friend of Selene's popping up in charge of the hidden vampires, like our Soph as Erika, understandably pissed off with her turning up after twelve years of peace and quiet and bringing action sequences to her doorstep.)
Nice soundtrack CD, which is previewed in the end credits rather than actually in the film to any degree.
Trenchcoat-love amusingly lampshaded. So there are some funny moments, but they're all at the expense of the material and I wonder how many were actually intentional.
Blarg.
Trailers: The Woman In Black, something with Denzel Washington teaming up with Ryan Reynolds to shoot lots of people, John Carter, Ghost Rider apparently being the first example in some time of a reboot with the same star, Star Wars 1 3D.