Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie Review
Review by qctimes
“Resident Evil: Afterlife,” is less like the video game on which it is based than its predecessors. That makes it more like a real movie. Enhanced by 3-D, which is pretty cool, this “Resident Evil” reaches just-OK status as a standard stalk ‘n’ slash blended with science-fiction elements.
“My name is Alice,” begins Milla Jovovich, once again portraying her black-clad heroine who throws knives and delivers bullets to halt both zombies and the sinister forces behind the Umbrella Corp.
In case you don’t remember or you’re not a fan of the video game, Alice is trying to save what is left of humanity after nearly everyone else in the world is turned into a zombie as a result of a virus created by the Umbrella Corp.
Yet another sequel, this includes a recognizable character from one of the preceding films. Ali Larter (television’s “Heroes”) reprises her role as Claire, who can’t remember much about her past – including her name.
Review by thephoenix
Within the first 15 minutes of Resident Evil: Afterlife, an army of Milla Jovovich clones (it’s a long story) have ripped 500 bad guys to shreds and Tokyo has been reduced to a smoking crater. The action gets only more gonzo from there.
This time, inhumanly bad-ass Resident Evil heroine Alice (Jovovich) must lead her fellow zombie-apocalypse survivors to a rumored safe haven called “Arcadia,” all while trying to evade the clutches of undead ghouls and the unrepentantly evil Umbrella Corporation. As usual, director Paul W.S. Anderson treats the Resident Evil games like a buffet, pilfering the survival-horror steam tables for characters and gruesome imagery.
Review by nickschager
When it comes to chic cinematic action, Milla Jovovich may be the poor woman’s Angelina Jolie, but her Resident Evil saga continues to be one of the millennium’s only adequate B-movie franchises. In this fourth installment, the first to be helmed by creator Paul W. S. Anderson since 2002’s original, as well as the maiden chapter shot in 3D, Jovovich’s zombie-killing Alice blows up the subterranean Japanese headquarters of the evil Umbrella Corporation, loses her T-virus superpowers, and – along with amnesiac sidekick Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) – attempts to help a group of Los Angelinos escape a downtown high-rise prison. That ludicrous setting is in keeping with mayhem so far removed from reality (and, in most respects, the Capcom videogames that loosely inspired this series) that Afterlife doesn’t bother explaining basic plot points (it would be generous to describe the narrative as “superfluous”) or even matching one shot to the next.
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