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Richard Corliss, Time: MODERATE "To give viewers some bang for the four-buck 3-D surcharge, [co-directors] Mårling and Stein toss virtual glass and spurting blood the audience's way every few minutes.... [The film] has nothing on its mind except diverting people who want to get out of the house after midnight.... [It's] stupid-smart." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 01/20/12 Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "Just sit tight till the next action sequence (it won't be long), and get ready to laugh -- with equal parts scorn and fanboy joy -- as Beckinsale strikes another Rodinesque pose under a slo-mo shower of inhuman innards." (Read the full review...) 93 words, 01/27/12
Andy Webster, New York Times: MODERATE "The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum. Is another sequel a possibility? Do vampires get thirsty?" (Read the full review...) 427 words, 01/21/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "...dreadful... a would-be videogame adventure on the big screen, with 3-D added to boost ticket prices and make the murky, dark scenes seem even more muddy.... [Beckinsale] bounds around in her ridiculous leather snowsuit, shooting silver bullets at the vamps' sworn enemies..." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 01/21/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...either the best movie in the burgeoning 'Underworld' franchise or the worst, depending, I suppose, on how deeply you value the series' previous strained attempts at myth-making." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 01/21/12 Roger Moore, Chicago Tribune: POOR (cg) "Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory... a humorless movie of chases and epic brawls, of beasties, bites, blades and blood..." (Read the full review...) 475 words, 01/21/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR (cg) "Not only is it loud, ugly, tedious and humorless, it also asks viewers to root for human slaughter. There's not much fun in that - unless, like Bella Swan, you fancy yourself part of the other team." (Read the full review...) 297 words, 01/21/12 Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine: MODERATE "The series has opted to go in a more 'Resident Evil direction': less heavy-handed mythology, more heads exploding. Which is perfect, because one suspects that has always been the fundamental appeal of these movies..." (Read the full review...) 557 words, 01/20/12 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) " 'I'm not good with feelings,' she says, and she's not kidding." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 01/21/12 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The entire production is single-mindedly, earnestly devoted to serving up feats of BADASS, and it succeeds in this devotion to the exclusion of everything else." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 01/25/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "...incredibly stupid.... The entire 'Underworld' franchise is really just a monster version of that shootout scene in 'The Matrix' where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss wear awesome trench coats and shred the lobby of an office building with automatic weapons." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 01/26/12
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There's not much to this movie beyond a slick procession of dark, gleaming violence. But Selene lovers would pay good 3D money to see her fight a parking ticket." (Read the full review...) 282 words, 01/21/12 Tom Russo, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...a sequel seemingly eager to assert that monster mashes are about B-movie chills not 'Twilight' melodrama. Eager to a fault, ultimately." (Read the full review...) 359 words, 01/23/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The entire production is single-mindedly, earnestly devoted to serving up feats of BADASS, and it succeeds in this devotion to the exclusion of everything else." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 01/25/12 Mack Rawden, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...isn't a great movie by any measure.... offers well shot graphics and choreographed action that bridge the way to a successful, fast-paced final act.... it's just marginally better [than the previous installments]." (Read the full review...) 688 words, 01/21/12 Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...brief but bloody and best enjoyed in zombie mode." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 01/26/12 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: POOR (cg) "The story, the acting, the action choreography, and the direction all remain unvaried throughout. Watching the film is strangely like looking at the same three still frames of supernatural battles over and over for 90 minutes." (Read the full review...) 471 words, 01/20/12 Alison Willmore, Movieline: WEAK (cg) "The only interesting aspect to this film, other than its odd dance around its love interest in absentia, are its retro qualities -- these days, all the other werewolves and vampires seem to be too busy trying to date teenagers to clash in tastefully grimy underground lairs with claws and double-fisted guns." (Read the full review...) 833 words, 01/20/12 Rob Humanick, Slant: POOR (cg) "...one longs for the comparatively rich characterizations and cinematography of your average 1990s PlayStation game." (Read the full review...) 471 words, 01/20/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "...incredibly stupid.... The entire 'Underworld' franchise is really just a monster version of that shootout scene in 'The Matrix' where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss wear awesome trench coats and shred the lobby of an office building with automatic weapons." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 01/26/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "Kate Beckinsale runs around a dank, rainy, gothy, first-person-shooter generic urban landscape -- in slo-mo! -- in skintight leather! or some sort of pleatheresque rubber at least! And the blood and brainmatter splatters out at you in 3D! How can it all be so silly with its humorless solemnity?" (Read the full review...) 762 words, 01/20/12
Andy Webster, New York Times: MODERATE "The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum. Is another sequel a possibility? Do vampires get thirsty?" (Read the full review...) 427 words, 01/21/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...either the best movie in the burgeoning 'Underworld' franchise or the worst, depending, I suppose, on how deeply you value the series' previous strained attempts at myth-making." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 01/21/12
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD "...sustains the excitement of its predecessors with sufficient fealty... Beckinsale brings an impressive physicality and subzero cool to her portrayal of Selene... helmers [Måns Mårling and Björn Stein] sustain a suitably rapid-fire pace while noticeably elevating the level of graphic slice-and-dice, run-and-gun mayhem." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 01/20/12 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "Sleep-inducing is a better description for this by-the-numbers sequel.... strictly for the converted.... [Beckinsale] goes through her energetic paces and an awful lot of wire work with the requisite athleticism and steely facial expressions." (Read the full review...) 452 words, 01/20/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...either the best movie in the burgeoning 'Underworld' franchise or the worst, depending, I suppose, on how deeply you value the series' previous strained attempts at myth-making." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 01/21/12 Andy Webster, New York Times: MODERATE "The combat quotient, to the movie's credit, is way up, with narrative folderol kept to a minimum. Is another sequel a possibility? Do vampires get thirsty?" (Read the full review...) 427 words, 01/21/12
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