Watched: Resident Evil: Extinction
Watched: Resident Evil: Extinction
Review: 2/5
While it does look great on blu-ray, RE:E never comes close to the awesome action of the first Resident Evil movie. It is much better than the second, but that isn’t saying much. There is almost no true zombie action. The big action scene is the rag-tag group fighting domesticated zombies that look like crazed janitors with their matching blue jumpsuits. I guess there wasn’t a budget for zombie costume design.
The rag-tag group are apparently the dumbest people still alive on the planet. Their plan for survival is to drive around the US taking leftover gasoline and food. And not just the US, but the desert southwest! They have no air conditioning, so their vehicles they stay in all day (with the windows up) are just mobile death traps. Are you kidding me? I can only guess that they were hoping to die somewhere warm, but miscalculated.
Many subplots are started then forgotten. There is a pointless exposition about how the Earth has dried up, but then the movie is set in what was already a desert so I’m not sure what the movie is trying to do there.
It is fun to see Alice using her magical powers, but there’s only one really cool scene. Still, at least she used her power for more than knocking over one droid at a time in a totally ineffective manner. Star Wars prequels, I’m looking right at you.
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