Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010):

Starring:

Milla Jovovich - Alice

Ali Larter - Claire Redfield

Kim Coates - Bennett

Shawn Roberts - Albert Wesker

Sergio Peris-Mancheta - Angel Ortiz

Spencer Locke - K-Mart

Boris Kodjoe - Luther West

Wentworth Miller - Chris Redfield

Sienna Guillory - Jill Valentine (Uncredited)

Norman Yeung - Kim Yong

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil; Death Race; Alien Vs Predator)

Synopsis:

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors who want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia. 

Review:

So to me this one is the one where they went "we'll the last two movies sucked, let's just make this as over the top 3-D, look as much like a video game as possible & hope it works". First you start off with a gigantic fight sequence where the army of Alice clones attack & take over the Umbrella Tokyo head quarters & just as they are about to take out the leader he escapes & blows up the entire complex killing all of the Alice clones. As he is escaping the real Alice is hiding in his air craft, they have a show down & he injects her with a syringe that takes away her powers & abilities. She escapes, goes to Alaska where she had sent everyone else only to discover that there are hundreds of abandoned planes but no one around & no uninfected town. She is attacked by Claire who has some kind of robotic spider attached to her chest that is apparently controlling her. She then decides to fly down to Los Angeles where her & Claire (who has no memory of her or of the events in Alaska) meet up with a hodgepodge of characters of all different life styles & backgrounds. This one really takes you into the world of the Resident Evil video games background. The characters posses certain attributes that are unrealistic to be any form of reality. You have professional basketball player Luther West's ability to jump incredibly over exaggeratedly high for one. Then you have Kim Coates, who continues to slowly work his way into my heart as one of my favourite character actors. The newest cast is rounded out by Wentworth Miller (of Prison Break.... "fame"? did anyone even watch that show?) who as they discover once they land on the roof of the prison that all of these other characters are held up is locked up in a cage in the basement as they all believe him to be a murderer of some magnitude that they refuse to let out even though he claims he is not a killer. After a long deliberation its revealed that he is in fact Claire's brother (who of course because of the robot spider, she does not remember him). So this is where you are introduced to the mega giant mutant killer guy thing simply known as "Axeman". Now here is my problem with him, is that he is a gigantic mega mutant who has a bag over his head, huge nails that he been driven into his skull & face & a gigantic mega axe thing that looks like it's an anvil or piece of concrete with a huge piece of steel at the front of it. Now if he's a mutant with diminished mental capacity like all of the other T-Virus infected people, how the hell did he construct such an elaborate killing device? Unless for some unknown reason he had pre-built it just in case or maybe he was already using it as a self defence weapon against the infected then became one so he just kept using it?  To me this is just another giant hole in the story that they just threw in because "it would be cool". You also have the addition of infected that have like tentacles almost coming out of their mouths that grab people & pull them underground where they apparently can also use their mouths to dig giant underground trenches? Later once they escape from the prison as they have learned that the city in Alaska called "Arcadia" was actually a freighter that was a secret Umbrella trap to capture the uninfected & use them as experiments on the ship. One of them being K-Mart from the third film who Claire eventually remembers getting captured in Alaska. So the final battle at the end involves Alice, Claire & Chris in the bottom of the ship facing off against what I can only assume is the Umbrella CEO or something along that lines, who Alice had believed she killed earlier in the film. Then he proceeds to fight Chris & Claire as Alice is held back by the dogs from the first film although they are now upgraded. They now have giant teeth filled vaginas for heads & they split right down the middle to hold her at bay. We'll they manage to eventually kill off the CEO dude & are all set to find a new place to live until they see a giant army of Umbrella planes & military flying towards the ship lead by Jill Valentine herself (accompanied by a robot spider on her chest). Overall it's silly, dumb, lacks major plot, story & acting is over the top. There was also way too much usage of slow motion shots some not at all necessary if not to accommodate for the fact that it was in 3-D. And yes there will be a 5th film in this franchise released in September.

Rotten Tomatoes: 24%

Flixster: 51%

46%

Lead Acting: 7/15

Supporting Cast: 7/15

Plot: 4/10

Compared To The Genre: 3/10

Cinematography: 11/20

Intrigue: 11/20

Extra: 3/10