The 3 years are up so its time for a brand new Resident Evil movie. I think the breaks they take in between each mediocre entry makes the entire franchise as a whole acceptable. It never wears out its welcome and you kind of forget how forgettable the last movie was. Then again; none of the movies have been great and Resident Evil: Afterlife does nothing to change my opinion.
I wouldn’t call the Resident Evil video game series works of art, but these movies make no goddamned sense. What the hell is Umbrella doing in these movies? So they accidentally release a bioweapon causing a zombie outbreak (1), which then spreads to a city (2), and the world (3). Now in Afterlife the world is gone yet Umbrella is still killing people to create more weapons … to what end? Even if you build the perfect bioweapon, who are you going to kill with it? All they had to say is they are experimenting for a cure, but they wouldn’t even give me that. Why must stupid movies continue to be stupid?
The storylines were never important in Resident Evil. What is important is how much fun it is to watch Milla Jovovich kick ass. She does plenty of that and even gets to fight the large infected guy with the makeshift ax. That wasn’t the only new element from the games brought in for the fourth movie. They also used the weird whole head splitting open look for the infected, which is nice and disgusting. Plus we finally got both Chris Redfield and Albert Wesker. Wentworth Miller was brought in for Chris and he had the look down so points for that. As for Wesker, they took advantage of the sunglasses and glowing eyes, so if you are a details of Resident Evil fan … hooray.
I'll be there in 2013 for whatever Resident Evil subtitled movie hits theaters. There clearly is going to be more and as long as people are alive Umbrella will try to kill them and Milla will stop them and we'll all lose an hour and half of our time.
5 out of 10
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