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What it's about:
The third installment of the Resident Evil movie franchise based on the popular game sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) traveling with a caravan across a zombie infested desert landscape on her way to Alaska. Dr Isaacs (Iain Glen) and the Umbrella Corporation attempt to track and eventually capture her for use in genetic experiments to cure the zombie virus. Things go horribly wrong when Dr Isaacs creates a strain of super zombies to wipe out the caravan, so he can use Alice as a guinea pig in a twisted experiment.
What we thought of it:
As much as I enjoy dodgy horror films, there is very little to recommend in any of the Resident Evil trilogy, and Extinction is the worst of the lot. It starts like a post-apocalyptic road movie, and it isn't long before Alice is high kicking zombies and rednecks in bullet time, while flexing her newfound psychic powers in a mediocre display of small budget special effects. Yawn.
The biggest problem with Resident Evil is that it's second rate in every aspect, because it's being marketed on the back of a popular PS2 game and doesn't need to deliver anything as an actual film.
It fails as a scary horror because it's too much like a 90-minute episode of some crappy Sci-Fi channel show with barely a PG rating. You can forget the gore and zombie action too. It's too cheap to be a spectacular sci-fi action like The Matrix, and the writing is too sloppy for it to be witty or humorous. The bottom line is that it's the cinematic equivalent of a stick of chewing gum that missed the step in the production process where the flavour is added.
Even worse than that, there's some really awful digital filtering/soft focus on about half of the shots of Milla Jovovich, which makes her look even more like a shop window dummy than usual, and really smacks you in the face with how fake this really is.
If you enjoyed the other Resident Evil movies, then maybe you'd enjoy this one too. Other than that, there can't possibly be an audience for something this dull and predictable, can there?
- Ivan Sadler
The third installment of the Resident Evil movie franchise based on the popular game sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) traveling with a caravan across a zombie infested desert landscape on her way to Alaska. Dr Isaacs (Iain Glen) and the Umbrella Corporation attempt to track and eventually capture her for use in genetic experiments to cure the zombie virus. Things go horribly wrong when Dr Isaacs creates a strain of super zombies to wipe out the caravan, so he can use Alice as a guinea pig in a twisted experiment.
What we thought of it:
As much as I enjoy dodgy horror films, there is very little to recommend in any of the Resident Evil trilogy, and Extinction is the worst of the lot. It starts like a post-apocalyptic road movie, and it isn't long before Alice is high kicking zombies and rednecks in bullet time, while flexing her newfound psychic powers in a mediocre display of small budget special effects. Yawn.
The biggest problem with Resident Evil is that it's second rate in every aspect, because it's being marketed on the back of a popular PS2 game and doesn't need to deliver anything as an actual film.
It fails as a scary horror because it's too much like a 90-minute episode of some crappy Sci-Fi channel show with barely a PG rating. You can forget the gore and zombie action too. It's too cheap to be a spectacular sci-fi action like The Matrix, and the writing is too sloppy for it to be witty or humorous. The bottom line is that it's the cinematic equivalent of a stick of chewing gum that missed the step in the production process where the flavour is added.
Even worse than that, there's some really awful digital filtering/soft focus on about half of the shots of Milla Jovovich, which makes her look even more like a shop window dummy than usual, and really smacks you in the face with how fake this really is.
If you enjoyed the other Resident Evil movies, then maybe you'd enjoy this one too. Other than that, there can't possibly be an audience for something this dull and predictable, can there?
- Ivan Sadler
