
Bjorn Stein
Writer: Len Wiseman
John Hlavin
Starring: Kate Beckinsale
Sandrine Holt
India Eisley
Theo James
Michael Ealy
Stephen Rea
Charles Dance
Rating: *
Release Date: Out Now
This over the top vampire movie, which I guess is meant to be a revival for the series, fails to even muster up the slightest bit of excitement and adds no new life to an already dying franchise.
Defrosted after 12 years in cryogenic prison, slinky Lycan-slayer, Selene (Beckinsale), wakes up to find a world where Lycans (like werewolves) and vampires are virtually non-existent due to genocidal humans hunting them all. She
also discovers that she has a daughter, Subject 2 or Eve (Eisley),
who is being used for various tests by the evil and ruthless bio-tech scientist Dr
Jacob Lane (Rea).

Swedish joint-directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, manage to take every scene and action sequence and basically use it as toilet roll.. They somehow manage to completely forget to explain or expand on the series’ already existent mythology, but then they actually fail to take the new information and plot twists they have, and get them to make any sense or integrate well with what is already known by the fans. They try their hardest to make it up to the audience as much as they can, but somehow awful 3D violence, badly choreographed fight scenes, and the over usage of wire work does not make up for their poor film, in fact it only makes it worse. Seeing as I just vaguely mentioned the 3D I will now quickly add that it is stupidly distracting, learn to use it well Hollywood or don't use it at all.

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