Volgens de website Rotten Tomatoes en vele reviews is Underworld Awakening een klote film, die weinig tot niks aan de ooit veel belovende franchise toevoegt. Maar dat weer hield de website Shock Till You Drop niet tegen om Les Wiseman te interviewen. De film zal overigens midden maart in de Nederlandse bioscopen draaien.

If you've seen the new film, you know Michael is, in fact, seen in the story. Speedman, however, does not play the role. So, we pressed Wiseman for an official statement about the absence of Speedman. This is what he had to say:

"At one point [in the story development] we were thinking about bringing in Michael into more of the story. It just started to battle and distract from the mother/daughter story with Eve, the new character. It just started happening script-wise. It started to take the importance of Eve [India Eisley] down. You can't just have Michael in there as a sub-character because he's so important and if you're going to have another important character show up, it just washes that relationship entirely. That's a bit of where it just became what it became. If you got involved in the Michael relationship, it would have overshadowed the new one. With parts one and two, we told, a little bit, of the same relationship story and I didn't want to do that a third time. If we're going to do another one, let's put a different relationship in there. Scott's a friend of mine and he knew what I was doing from the beginning, we talk every week so it was just, 'This is the story we're going with in the third one.'"