Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
RoboRabbit89
After the first two films which I consider the best, this
franchise quickly went down hill in Extinction but after
I seen this film I felt well at least it's a little better than
the third film.I first seen this back in 2011 on DVD
when another buddy of mine brought over a
bootleg copy on DVD and I found it to be better than the third film.
He did as well and felt the third was probably the worst in the series,
at the time I agreed with him but the third has grown on me and I'm
more OK with it now.Unlike the third film, this one gets right to it with a strong action packed
opening and it delivers. Alice storms an Umbrella Corporation with her
multiple copies in Tokyo, but soon she is turn back to her normal human
state( still having her over- the-top fighting abilities) by Wesker and her copies get KIA after Wesker detonates the facility
on his getaway chopper. Also this franchise begins to become inconsistant
in this film but it really started with Extinction. Alice meets a new group of survivors and they band together to
fight the undead that has breached their strong hold.I give it a 6/10. better than the third with fun over the top
action scenes.
Tweekums
This, the fourth instalment in the ongoing 'Resident Evil' franchise, opens in Tokyo as Alice launches an attack on an Umbrella Corporation facility… to be more accurate several Alices. With superhuman skill they illuminate the facility's guards but its director, Albert Wesker, escapes in a plane. As he takes off he detonates the facility's self-destruct mechanism entirely destroying it. The Original Alice manages to survive as she got aboard Wesker's plane; she confronts him but he injects her with something that neutralises the T-Virus in her, removing her superhuman abilities. The plane crashes shortly afterwards.Alice then makes her way to Alaska where she hopes to find the village of 'Arcadia'; a last outpost of humanity. What she finds is an apparently deserted settlement. It soon becomes clear that one person is still there; Claire Redfield… although she has lost all memories due to a strange device on her chest. Once the device is removed the two fly south along the coast. When they get to Los Angeles they find a small group of survivors living in an abandoned prison. They think she has been sent from Arcadia to rescue them… it turns out that Arcadia wasn't a village at all but a ship that is now anchored off LA. It won't be easy to get to it though; the prison is surrounded by hordes of zombies and they are starting to breach its defences. Even when those who survive get to the ship their troubles are far from over and Alice must confront an old foe.After the enjoyable third part this was a bit of a disappointment; the story contains few surprises… I doubt many people will be surprised by the reveal regarding what has been going on aboard the Arcadia and who is behind it. There is lots of action, some of it pretty good, unfortunately some of it was also fairly obvious CGI. This might have looked good when watched in 3D at the cinema but wasn't too impressive on DVD. Milla Jovovich does a decent enough job as Alice and the rest of the 'good guys' are okay if a little cliché. Shawn Roberts had clearly been told to act as if he was Agent Smith from 'The Matrix' as much of his action and even gestures are clearly ripped off from that film. Overall I'd only recommend this if you are a fan of the series; if you equate zombies with horror and hope to be scared you'll probably be disappointed but if you want an hour and a half of fairly mindless action you could do worse.The ending is clearly a set-up for the fifth film in the franchise; let's just hope it is a bit better than this one.
willcundallreview
We all think enough is enough at some point, and now that is the general feeling around Resident Evil. I know I know, why it couldn't have ended after one movie but to be fair it stuck to itself and did what it wanted to do, sure the movies are terribly written and directed but, well OK that isn't acceptable at all. This was a series that had room to improve, all it had to do was make it less bat-s*** crazy and try to make it feel more personal and less obsessed with stupid things when all it had to do was make it alright. The man, who produces, writes and directs this is Paul W.S Anderson who is now for me nearly at a point of no return, where even if he makes something good, this will be on his back forever. Now maybe my introduction seems a little harsh I mean after all this is what it says on the tin, big action, more zombies than seen before and an actual kind of interesting plot(emphasising kind of). We see Alice searching and looking for the place where survivors may be, she flies around everywhere in this plane and even lands it in impossible places. The plot is hard not to ruin because straight away it jumps right into it and that I can respect, but my main problem is not with the plot, it's with the technical decisions. Anderson manages to blast out this movie that's scenes are chosen horribly, it feels Anderson somehow destroys his own script and after it is all over you just feel some opportunities were missed. A problem I have always felt with this franchise is that it goes too big scale, it can't settle for street to street zombie fighting with normal guns and never feels like the characters do what actual people would do in that crazy situation. It builds Umbrella as this corporation that just has too much money, I mean it builds huge underground complexes which seem to figure in every movie and make it even more insane. The villain of this movie is just so badly created that it just seems stupid to have made that character, the person just seems to be straight from the video game which this uses too much from, and then the movie feels OTT. Can Resident Evil ever get any better is the question on my lips, on this it cannot and this is the first one so far I have actually found bad and not just another poor movie. It doesn't try and that is what I can't respect, it's not like this movie isn't worth a watch but it certainly isn't one I would recommend to many, fans of the series maybe and I know people who love action movies will also enjoy it, but even some will find this an overuse of special effects and one movie that ruins this series even more so.So Resident Evil marches on earning money from a very disappointing attempt and I feel there is a lot of this kind of thing left to come in the future. Whether Anderson feels this is going somewhere is really a hard thing to work out, it rakes in money but critically they are smashed, it's like a moral film question, do you keep on making bad movies if a lot of people don't like them?, my answer is actually to keep on going, but improve your craft and don't keep going at the same old stuff that you've been doing for years.
Adrian Val Olonan
After the evil things Umbrella did to Alice and other people back in the first three films, she's back for vengeance in "Resident Evil: Afterlife"! The 3D is excellent. I very regret about watching this only on DVD. I guess some directors don't maximize 3D, and I'm happy Paul WS Anderson did very well for this film. The opening credits are dark, gloomy, and mysterious. Fight scenes are kickass with guns, samurai swords, throwing stars, and other weapons. The T-virus abominations evolve, as with the Majini zombies and the Axeman. Slow-motion may be generic, but this film revolutionizes it. Alice finds new survivors in Los Angeles, and Chris Redfield is the main course here. Also, I guess the film relies on location. First, in underground Raccoon, second is overland Raccoon, third is the Nevada Desert, and the fourth has more than one: Tokyo, Alaska, and Los Angeles. The plot twists are very good and beyond predictions. Jump scares are present, especially which they are intensified in 3D. I should have watched this in 3D theater!
