So let's be honest here. As the series of RESIDENT EVIL
movies has progressed they've become less about being a real movie and more
about being a visualization of the first person shooter game that began the
whole thing. That was starting to show in the last film but in this current
release it becomes even more apparent.
Picking up immediately where the last film left off we once
more have items tossed our direction as the film lives up to it's 3-D hype with
weapons tossed about and at the audience every so often to make sure you're
paying attention. If you're not watching it in 3-D (I wasn't) then you just see
items tossed at the camera and don't feel the need to duck every few minutes.
We learn a little more about Alice (Mila Javovich) but not
much and once again she finds herself captured and unconscious. With the help
of Ada Wong she escapes, arms herself and begins the carnage. A white hallway
filled with zombie types soon finds itself splattered in red with dead bodies
left and right. But of course Alice escapes.
Alice learns that the Umbrella Corporation is sitting back
and watching the T virus run rampant across the globe, doing nothing to stop
it. I always found this a little odd since most corporations' goals are to
achieve wealth and power and a world over run by zombies would provide neither
not to mention no fuel or sustainable food source. But that's logic talking.
Somehow Alice ends up working with her arch enemy from the
series, Wesker, who sees some of the problems that have arisen. Instead of
being pitted against him she is now pitted against the Red Queen, the computer
that looks like a child in holographic image seen in the first film. A team
sent in to help Alice is on the way but of course she stops to help a little
girl who thinks Alice is her mother since a clone of Alice was with her
earlier. Trust me if you watch it it makes sense. Then again the girl is a
clone as well. There are tons of clones in this series.
What I've offered here is more plot than is actually seen
here. Most of it is offered in bits and pieces throughout the 96 minute running
time. This film isn't about plot though, it's about action and there is plenty
of that here. Well action and CGI creatures that want Alice dead. Some of the
main creatures from the original game show up here rendered nicely via CGI.
But that's the thing that might be the downfall of this film
series. It has less and less to do with story and more and more to do with just
all out action. Don't get me wrong, I love action films. But it's much more fun
to see an action film based around a story. This movie feels like your sitting
beside someone playing the game and watching how they do.
While not the most terrible film I've ever seen it doesn't
leave me much hope for another film. And the ending of this one like all the
rest leaves it wide open for a cataclysmic last chapter. If it happens I might
watch for a $2 rental but I doubt I'd shell out the bucks to own it, even if I
wanted a complete series on my shelf.
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