Resident Evil Afterlife

Resident Evil Afterlife

                This is the fourth movie in the Resident Evil franchise.  This movie starts with Alice, played by Milla Jovavich, taking down the Umbrella corp., headquarters in Japan.  She then decides to take off after her friends, who went to the supposed safety of Arcadia in Alaska.  While there she does not find the safe haven but she does find Claire(Ali Larter) with a strange device attached to her chest and a bad case of memory loss going on.  The two of them load up in Alice’s plane and head up the coast where they run into a group of survivors holding up in a Los Angles jail.  This is where they find out that Arcadia is not a place but a ship.  The rest of the movie is spent escaping the zombie horde and trying to get to the ship. 

The Story and acting are pretty much what you would expect from this kind of movie.  It was not very good acting wise, but I did not think it was all that bad either, that is with one exception.  Shawn Roberts plays Albert Wesker the main bad guy and he was just terrible I think he was either trying to do or not trying to do an accent and failing miserably either way.  The movie also came out during all the 3D hype and they tried very hard to make it look cool.  Since I watched it on a regular tv I did not get the full 3D effect.  It might have looked really good in 3D and you could tell they were trying really hard but it ended up looking kind of silly that everything had to be coming at you.

Overall I did enjoy the movie but I have also seen all of the other movies in the series including the less popular animated feature Resident Evil Degeneration.  The action sequences were pretty good and I do tend to enjoy movies in the zombie genre. 

I give Resident Evil: Afterlife 3 out of 5 Paw Prints.

My next review will the 2010 Best picture winner The King’s Speech.

And as always “You don’t have to go home, but you have to get the hell out of here!”