RESIDENT
EVIL: EXTINCTION
(2007)
directed by Russell
Mulcahy
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
12.6.07
What happens
when you take a good idea and throw way too much money at it? Well…most of the
crap that comes out in
Picking up a
few months after Resident Evil:
Apocalypse, Extinction follows Alice (Milla Jovovich) and a few of the other survivors as the make
their way through a quickly dying world. The T-virus has spread throughout the
world drying up water bodies and making zombies just about everywhere. Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) join a bunch of
women, apparently added in as eye candy, in a convoy to pick up other survivors
while Alice treks out on her own with increasingly greater and greater powers
use to beat down zombies and “boss” bad guys that look vaguely similar in each
film, while wearing scantly clad clothing.
This movie
suffers from Matrix syndrome. When the protagonist gains too much strength the
audience begins to be confident that they will overcome any obstacle which robs
the movie of any suspense. Big blockbuster action/horror movies such as these
would due well to take a lesson from novel writers or from Romero movies.
Creating realistic characters that can be hurt easily and are fully flawed as
the rest of us, would make the characters more relatable and keeps the audience
with them longer.
My advice: rent
it when it comes out if you want to know how the trilogy ends, or better yet,
check it out from the library.
2 out of 5 just because there is a high zombie content.
Purchase your own copy of Resident
Evil: Extinction