Resident Evil Gives the Fans What They Want

By Vincent Fripp on September 17, 2012

Photo courtesy of west.m via Flickr.com

 

This weekend hosted another Resident Evil movie and another movie extending the lifespan of 3D longer than it should. But wait, this movie is actually worth it. Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment in the Resident Evil movie franchise, brings back longtime zombie-killer Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she continues to battle against the evil Umbrella Corporation.

The movie starts off right where it left off in the previous film, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and includes a brief recap of everything that has transpired since the first film. Most would find this little rehashing a bit mundane and unnecessary, but I found it unexplainably awesome. Maybe it was due to seeing some of the scenes that started the franchise or seeing how things had progressed, but either way, it’s very helpful to anyone who missed or doesn’t quite remember any of the films in the series. But let’s get back to Retribution. In this movie Alice begins living as a suburban housewife with her husband and child but is attacked and tries desperately to escape and save her daughter. Alice later awakens to find herself trapped in an Umbrella facility being interrogated by a mind-controlled Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory). Alice, with assistance of course, is able to escape while having to fend off more zombies only to return back to Umbrella. She is met by Ada Wong (Li Bingbing) and Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) via computer screen. She learns that she is being held at an underwater facility, which is a testing ground for the T-virus, and that neither Ada nor Wesker work for Umbrella. It turns out that the two of them need Alice to help save humanity. In order to ensure that Alice and Ada escape, Wesker assembles a team to infiltrate Umbrella consisting of Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe). From here on out, the movie follows Alice and the gang as they navigate their way through the facility and fight zombies in order to find one another and escape safely.

At this moment, the action really starts and you realize why 3D actually works for this film. The set-up pitting the protagonist against various monsters in different environments really plays out like an actual video game. This is what makes the 3D experience so much fun in this film. While all the action in this movie isn’t perfect and is suffers from having no real plot development or ability to avoid clichés and predictability, the action and slight hinge of humor do more than enough to make up for it. And while some scenes may seem out of place or unneeded and make you go “really?”, that is not the purpose of this movie. This movie isn’t meant for the critics or Oscar voters, it is meant only for fans of the franchise and in that area it doesn’t disappoint.

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