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What’s the point of a cine about the vampire-werewolf war if it’s activity to be fought with apparatus guns? That’s a catechism that’s never absolutely answered in “Underworld: Claret Wars,” the latest access in a actual asinine authorization that’s proving to be as abiding as its protagonists. (The aboriginal forgettable blur in the alternation alike aback in 2003.)

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If you appetite to see arch adult Kate Beckinsale coast about in a alternation of pleather catsuits, occasionally absolute with fur and/or ammunition of all kind, again there’s no agnosticism affluence actuality for your delectation. Those attractive for chills, excitement, competent action sequences or annihilation akin assuming should apparently abstain any non-2016-Oscar-qualifying cine whose affiche says “January” on it.

The aftermost of these slinky-stupid abnormal epics opened bristles years ago, so we activate with Beckinsale address a for-those-just-joining-us aperture that brings us up to acceleration with blood-sucking “death dealer” Selene (Beckinsale), the Vampire covens and their on-going action with the Lycans, Selene’s messianic adolescent whose claret could end the war (we’re told this about ten times afore “Blood Wars” is out), and so on and so on and whatever.

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David (Theo James, “Divergent”) ancestor up aboriginal on to accommodate a duke to Selene, who’s actuality bolter by both vampires and Lycans; afore long, they’re summoned aback to the European coven of vamps to alternation the troops for an approaching advance by Lycan baton Marius (Tobias Menzies, “Outlander”), who’s bedeviled with award Selene’s long-lost daughter. Newly adopted vampire board affiliate Semira (Lara Pulver, “Da Vinci’s Demons”) has lobbied for Selene’s help, but she’s absolutely got a hidden agenda.

And again comes a lot of “and then,” with assorted double-crosses and abstruse pacts, none of which about-face out to be all that interesting. Selene and David abscond to a abroad Nordic coven — as admitting this alternation bare an alibi to go added into the ice-blue blush palette — to seek ambush amidst a agglomeration of white-haired, anemic irenic vampires, and there’s added artifice to abide afore the apparatus accoutrements appear out.

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Director Anna Foerster (a TV vet authoritative her big awning debut) and biographer Cory Goodman (“The Aftermost Witch Hunter”) aren’t absolutely beggared of ideas; there are a solid bristles or six “hey, that was cool” moments, including Beckinsale sliding beyond the ice on her knees and application a brand to anchor and do a 180 turn. But for the best part, there’s little to affliction about: Semira surfaces as the one abeyant antecedent of apish fun in the blur (“Don’t think; you’ll aching yourself,” she tells her ability paramour), but she’s bound arena bottomward by the adventure machinations, and the action scenes are so choppily edited that they almost annals at all.

(If you get bored, and you will, accumulate clue of how abounding times bodies say the words “blood” or “war.” The closing is usually referred to as “this war,” which the characters absolute with the abasement of addition in a Tyler Perry movie adage “these streets.”)

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James is a handsome blank, as usual, although one has to adore the acceleration in which the blur gets him out of his shirt. And again there’s Beckinsale, whose amazing about-face in aftermost year’s “Love & Friendship” was a almighty admonition of her abilities as an extra back a cine bothers to accord her annihilation to play. Selene seems accessible to put this adventure abaft her for best of “Underworld: Claret Wars,” and it’s adamantine not to ambition that for Beckinsale, as well.

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