Where to
begin, I really don’t know, it was awful from start to finish. By far the worst
of all Resident Evil’s movies, despite the fact the last one (Afterlife) was
already very bad, with its abrupt ending in the middle of a scene engraved in
my memory. Well this one starts as bad as the other one finished, yes I know,
it’s a pretty hard thing to do but they managed to do it. It starts with a
playback of the intro scene followed by, guess what, the intro scene played
normally. Pure genius…
This wasn’t
the only problem with the movie, no, it had a lots of problems. First of all
the directing isn’t very good, but what strikes out is the screenplay’s lack of
quality, I mean really bad. Dialogues are simple, boring and often pointless and
then the storyline is also very flawed, it’s like someone wrote this movie’s script
in just about a day. So that you can understand some of my issues with this
movie, and despite me being a fan of Resident Evil (mainly the first movies), I’ll
mention a couple of them. For instance, those cool looking Umbrella secret labs
that are built underground and are shown as a 3D schematic, well in this movie
there is one of those but its layout, unlike previous labs, makes no sense what
so ever. I mean, why would someone build a lab in which you have to cross 3 or
4 cities full of zombies just to get in and get out, makes no sense. Then there is the appearance of all the
previous characters, I was surprised how Nemesis doesn’t show up… All these
past characters where cloned, just because, and now they come back, not as
themselves but as someone else and, has that wasn’t bad enough, they have really
poor roles in the movie.
If all that
didn’t suffice to rate this movie very poorly, there’s the cherry on top of the
cake: bad acting. No great actors were in this movie but some stood out, like
Sienna Guillory, who plays Jill and I’m sorry to say this but can’t act at all,
her idiotic commands (brilliant script) during the whole movie were ridiculous,
or Milla Jovovich using the same hand gesture to say 2 completely different
things to her deaf daughter (not sure if she was deaf or not, but why else
would she speak in sign language).
In the end,
after hour and a half, after all the shooting, shouting and running around, the
only thing that was added to this franchise was a secret lab located underwater
and blown up and the end of the movie, so nothing was added. A pointless movie
and a bad one as well. Oh I almost forgot, you also find out that the next
movie will take place in Washington where the White House is the last standing
building and zombies are beating the crap out of everyone (my 2 cents: it doesn’t
seem it’s going to be a better movie than this).
All in all,
even if you aren’t picky with things like the sign language “dialogs” this is
still an extremely bad movie and a continued fall into the abyss this movie
franchise seems to have entered in 2007 with Extinction kind of looking down
from the edge of the precipice.
Rating: 3.4
