I enjoyed the first three Resident Evil films as guilty pleasures. I will say it right out of the gate. Resident Evil: Afterlife was the fourth installment and a huge pile of nothing. Now we have the fifth installment-Resident Evil: Retribution. Need I say more? The first three were so bad they were good films. Now it just feels as if star Milla Jovovich is just trying to get easy paycheck after easy paycheck. It's very simple-Jovovich walks on screen, beats someone (or something...in this case zombies) to death and spurts the worst dialogue this side of Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever. Then-when all else fails-we get a slow motion shot of Jovovich.
Where the last two films have completely wrong this time is having director and writer Paul W.S. Anderson back on the team. Sure...I admitted I enjoyed the first film, which he did. However...Anderson proved himself unworthy of ever making another film when he did the godawful Three Musketeers adaptation. As with that film...Resident Evil: Retribution is bound to be out of anyone's mind after just a few hours. I am sitting here writing this review five days after having seen it and can barely remember enough to justify writing a review in the first place.
I can tell you that Alice fights zombies this time and that there is one cool scene in the whole film. You read that right...one cool scene in the entire 90 minutes. That scene is the slow motion/backward action scene at the beginning. This takes up the course of a good three minutes.
Proving that the series is done with....Resident Evil: Retribution is a forgettable piece of garbage that is made for no one. Yes...not even those people who are in love with Jovovich will enjoy this. Why should they when they probably have the first three films on Blu-Ray?
(1 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated R for sequences of strong violence throughout)
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