Guys and girls with this review there is officially one more Resident Evil live action film for me to watch and sadly i'm not quite sure when I can get it to you there's a chance it could be tomorrow morning / afternoon but i'll definitely get it to you the start of next week. However tho it does mean that we now reach what I think is the most boring film in the franchise and so join my for my review of "Resident Evil: Retribution" enjoy.
The plot what little there is is that Alice with the help of Ada Wong , Leon S. Kennedy , Luther West and Barry Burton have to escape and Umbrella facility while being chased by Jill Valentine and clone versions of characters from both the first and second films. Yeah there is very little story in this film which is shocking because the last film had very little story and so you'd have thought that they would have learned there lesson well it turns out they didn't because this one somehow has even less story in it then Afterlife did.
Reprising their roles for in this film are franchise star and the only reason to watch these sequels now that Ali Larter isn't in them is Milla Jovovich as Alice , Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine , Michelle Rodriguez as Rain Ocampo , Boris Kodjoe as Luther West , Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliveira , Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker and Colin Salmon as James "One" Shade. Joining them are Li Bingbing as Ada Wong , Johann Urb as Leon S. Kennedy , Kevin Durand as Barry Burton and Megan Charpentier (voice provided by Ave Merson-O'Brian) as The Red Queen.
Like I said in my review of the first live action Resident Evil film no one goes into these films expecting great acting and sadly that's still true with this film. Since yeah the acting sucks so hard yes there are actors who are trying such as Michelle Rodriguez , Milla Jovovich and Sienna Guillory but everyone else just isn't even trying to out in a good or even passable performance apart from the three that I mentioned they are all just doing the bare minimum and nothing more which is never a good thing no matter what the film is.
As you can no doubt see by the characters that are in the cast list this film introduces quite a few characters from the games. Which is a big issue because this film is only an hour and a thirty minuets long which really isn't long enough to introduce these new characters , tell us who they are and give us a reason as to why we should care about them as such all of the characters get these really forced introductions with unnatural dialog or no introduction at all which is a shame because on paper these could have been cool characters.
It seems that Paul W.S. Anderson loves to retcon his own movies because this movie actually retconns the second movie just by having the character of Leon S. Kennedy. Since in a piece of marketing for that film it was established that Leon had died and yet here he is very much alive and so it makes no sense that the guy who would have had to go that piece of marketing would suddenly forget that he killed the character of.
The one thing that this film does and that the other films didn't do is try to be an artsy type film this film tries to be something that it's not. Which in this case is a film that requires you to think the other films didn't do that because they knew that they weren't that type of film but for some reason even tho this film had the same writer as the rest of them it tries to be an art films and it fails because of how much dumb stuff is in it and it puts all the people that came to see the cool stuff because now there's all these shots that feel more at home in an art house film.
A key example of this is the opening which for some unknown reason is told backwards which just doesn't works at all. At least with the other openings they at least tried to make sense all this one does is show an action scene but in reverse but to it's credit it does mean that we get see Milla's a*s very early in the movie granted you can barely see it but now the director doesn't have to find a way to get her wet and in tight clothes.
Honestly how they bring back these dead characters even tho it's dumb and obvious as all hell it's something that oddly works for this franchise. Creating clones is something that the Umbrella Corporation has done before just look at Extinction as proof of that and so it makes sense that they would create clones of there employees and use them in various especially now there's only a few bases left however it's still a pretty dumb way to bring these characters tho.
This film is perhaps the most boring one of them all simply because nothing happens plot wise and the characters are just uninteresting even the returning characters both clone and not clone. Which is a shame because the other films as bad as they can be are at least somewhat entertaining here tho anything that's even close to being entertaining is just non-existent and so I wouldn't blame you if this film caused you to fall asleep hell i'm pretty sure that I fell asleep when I first watched this film back when it first came out on DVD.
As you know at this point the franchise stopped being a horror franchise and started being more of an action franchise only with zombies and other creatures in it. Yet with that being said while the action can indeed be passable at times with some pretty cool stuff in them but the vast majority of them just like the rest of the film is boring as hell it's just the same stuff that we've seen before in the other movies with nothing new added to them oh and for some strange reason they give Alice her powers back even tho they made a big deal out of getting rid of them in the previous films but there you go that's the Resident Evil sequels for you.
Overall the worst thing that anyone can say about any film is that it's boring and that's sadly that's true for this film. Now don't get me wrong there are a few good things in this film but number one you have to sit through alot of bad things and number two you have to stay awake both of which will be a challenge during this film as such this film gets a 4.5 out of 10 from me and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira Mistress Of The Dark wishing all of us some very unpleasant dreams.
All images for this review were gathered from either the official Resident Evil fandom wiki page or Google Images. I really do wish that I could come up with a joke here the fact this film just sucked all of the joy out of me but knowing that there's one more film left has brought a smile to me and so I shall see you all in the next review when I finally finish of the live action Resident Evil films with "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" unpleasant dreams.
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