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Not only did this movie fail to match the success of either of its prequels, the film as is a colossal trainwreck. I was going to say that for some unknown reason, the film is set in a sandy post apocalyptic wasteland, but now I think about it, the reason for this is pretty clear. The film's setting enables the movie makers to film a bunch of scenes in a desert, thereby removing the need for expensive on location filming. The trouble with this is that it makes the film look very samey indeed. Equally anonymous are the film's characters - Milla Jovovich is once again cast as the ass-kicking Alice, but the rest are a fairly uninteresting bunch. Ali Larter and Oded Fehr in particular sleep walk their way through their roles, not that they're given much to do anyway.
Essentially, the movie is a series of boring and nonsensical setpieces. First the cast get attacked by birds, then zombies, then some more zombies, then there's a confrontation in a dark bunker, and then the film's over. There's precious few special effects, certainly compared to the previous films, and even if you enjoyed the previous films, there's no real reason watch this exercise in tedium. The good news is that there is apparently a CGI Resident Evil film, in the making, overseen by Capcom, the game's designers. And given that this new film will have no ties to the movie trilogy - which actually ends on something of a cliffhanger - there's hope yet. Resident Evil Extinction, on the other hand, isn't even worth renting. A truly dire movie.
Not only did this movie fail to match the success of either of its prequels, the film as is a colossal trainwreck. I was going to say that for some unknown reason, the film is set in a sandy post apocalyptic wasteland, but now I think about it, the reason for this is pretty clear. The film's setting enables the movie makers to film a bunch of scenes in a desert, thereby removing the need for expensive on location filming. The trouble with this is that it makes the film look very samey indeed. Equally anonymous are the film's characters - Milla Jovovich is once again cast as the ass-kicking Alice, but the rest are a fairly uninteresting bunch. Ali Larter and Oded Fehr in particular sleep walk their way through their roles, not that they're given much to do anyway.
Essentially, the movie is a series of boring and nonsensical setpieces. First the cast get attacked by birds, then zombies, then some more zombies, then there's a confrontation in a dark bunker, and then the film's over. There's precious few special effects, certainly compared to the previous films, and even if you enjoyed the previous films, there's no real reason watch this exercise in tedium. The good news is that there is apparently a CGI Resident Evil film, in the making, overseen by Capcom, the game's designers. And given that this new film will have no ties to the movie trilogy - which actually ends on something of a cliffhanger - there's hope yet. Resident Evil Extinction, on the other hand, isn't even worth renting. A truly dire movie.