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Resident Evil: Extinction
The bar literally could not be any lower, but this series must have the T-virus, because even when it seems dead...it comes back to life. To my amazement, I actually liked the movie, maybe it was because the second film was so bad?
So the movie starts off...where the first movie started? But in the desert? Anyway, the beginning of the film had me groaning and preparing for the worst, until the villain spoke his first line of dialogue and I shot up in my seat, Is that an actual ACTOR in a Resident Evil movie?.
But it didn't stop there, the directing was better, the action was better, the acting was better and almost everything was better than any of the other instalments, though that isn't saying much.
I like the movie, it's my favourite of the dreaded franchise and in my opinion the most watchable...but it still suffers from the same problem the others have, it's a videogame movie.
The film had me sold for a while, I was invested in what was going on and even accepted the ludicrous plot (Alice has mental powers and somehow an evil corporation can still be evil...when the apocalypse has happened?). But when the climax began and the villain starts to leap out of his character and into some kind of generic videogame boss, as per usual in the Resident Evil films, I began to lose interest and brain cells.
Overall the film is (in my opinion at least) the best in the franchise (isn't saying much) and has some decent performances and action sequences...but the zombie dogs? Again?
The bar literally could not be any lower, but this series must have the T-virus, because even when it seems dead...it comes back to life. To my amazement, I actually liked the movie, maybe it was because the second film was so bad?
So the movie starts off...where the first movie started? But in the desert? Anyway, the beginning of the film had me groaning and preparing for the worst, until the villain spoke his first line of dialogue and I shot up in my seat, Is that an actual ACTOR in a Resident Evil movie?.
But it didn't stop there, the directing was better, the action was better, the acting was better and almost everything was better than any of the other instalments, though that isn't saying much.
I like the movie, it's my favourite of the dreaded franchise and in my opinion the most watchable...but it still suffers from the same problem the others have, it's a videogame movie.
The film had me sold for a while, I was invested in what was going on and even accepted the ludicrous plot (Alice has mental powers and somehow an evil corporation can still be evil...when the apocalypse has happened?). But when the climax began and the villain starts to leap out of his character and into some kind of generic videogame boss, as per usual in the Resident Evil films, I began to lose interest and brain cells.
Overall the film is (in my opinion at least) the best in the franchise (isn't saying much) and has some decent performances and action sequences...but the zombie dogs? Again?