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.[3] The film was released in Digital 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D theatres on January 20, 2012.
Nine days after the deaths of Alexander, Marcus and William in Underworld: Evolution,
humans have captured 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 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 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 is followed David, a
fellow vampire. While talking with David, Selene has another vision and
discovers a young girl, Eve (Subject 2). Eve is revealed to be a hybrid
and the daughter of Selene and Michael. Selene and David flee the
building with Eve but are attacked by a group of diseased lycans.Eve is
badly wounded by one of the lycans, and David insists that they take her
to his coven. David's father, Thomas, blames Selene for provoking the
destruction of the vampires. Thomas tells her that Michael died twelve
years ago. A vampire woman offers 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.
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 a
drug designed to make lycans immune to the deadly effects of silver on
their species and 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. Unexpectedly, lycans arrive in large numbers, and many
vampires are slaughtered, a huge blow to the coven, which now assumes
that humans and lycans are 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 immortal blood given to her by
Alexander Corvinus.
Selene enlists the help of Detective Sebastian, a human who tried
investigating Antigen. Sebastian agrees to help save Eve, admitting he
was married to a nurse who became a vampire. The two of them lived
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 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 (Subject 0) cryogenically frozen, puncturing his cell
with a gunshot to defrost him. Escaping in a van, 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 Lane, who
has injected himself with the super-serum. Sebastian and David aid Eve
in her fight and she kills 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 voice-over narration Selene concludes
with her determination to reunite with Michael and take back the world
from the humans and lycans.
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