I must preface myself before you read this review that Im a huge fan of the Resident Evil series. I have played though all the games and have enjoyed every second of them. So, I am incredibly critical when it comes to these movies. The first movie was a fairly well made, violent, and intense movie. Minus some poor acting, its only main flaw is that it didn’t accurately follow the plot of the video games. Here in lies the problem for the series; it deviates so far from the actually plot of the series, that after the first movie it wonders off into B movie goodness.
Glad I got that off my chest. So Resident Evil: Afterlife is actually a great movie. We have Alice opening this movie infiltrating Umbrella HQ in Japan. This is my least favorite part of the movie. Im not gonna say what happens, but the first 10 minutes are entertaining then it turns into an over the top and unrealistic action movie. I know its a Resident Evil movie, but this is not the Resident Evil I know and love. Its a bad knock off of the Matrix meets equilibrium, which are two awesome movies Be Te Dub!
From here on out this movie settles down a bit and we start enjoying a more Resident Evil type movie. We see elements mostly from Resident Evil 5, which mostly takes place in Africa. In this case the movie mostly takes place in LA. The plot isn’t anything amazing here. Its actually fairly bland and doesn’t taste very well. Alice is trying to find a ship that possibly has her friends on it. She meets some people in an abandoned prison surround by thousands of zombies. She finds the boat off shore and attempts to reach the ship with the survivors. She gets to the ship and well, thats where Im stopping, cause the end turns out to be entertaining.
One other thing I wasn’t a huge fan about this movie was the amount of characters and their uselessness. We have Chris Redfield, who in the games is a complete bad-ass, do absolutely nothing. This disappoints me greatly. There still is hope that in future movies he will have a larger and more action oriented roll. Other characters just cause issues and/or die quickly.
Now one thing I want to mentioned that stands out in the film is the 3-D technology in the movie. It is the only film to be shot in the Panasonic cameras that Avatar was. After a summer of lackluster 3-D movies, Ahem! “Clash of the Titans,” Ahem! It’s nice to see some one taking advantage of this stellar technology that James Cameron has worked so hard on for “Avatar.” Even if you do not like Resident Evil movies, go see this for the 3-D effects.
Case in point this movie is a good ride, shut your brain off for an hour and a half and enjoy some great 3-D action sequences. Acting isn’t that bad compared to the last two movies. The cinematography is entertaining and isn’t all zoomed in like most action movies these days. The plot is simple, don’t even worry about it, just watch gorgeous girls kill zombies and this huge masked zombie that wields a massive Axe.
My Suggestion: See in the Theater!
-Matt-
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