Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Genre: Action
Format: Theatrical Release
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Let's get one thing very clear: I really despise these Resident Evil movies because they do not do the source material any justice. As someone who enjoys the survival horror series from Capcom that the movie is based on, I am very protective of the wonderful memories that I have experienced from the game. Part of this blame here can be attributed by Capcom's love for allowing movie-makers to destroy their original visions... Like that last Street Fighter movie...
This is the 4th movie for the series and though it is as ridiculous as the others and has no bearing within the actual video game version of the Resident Evil universe, it is thankfully not as bad as the second and the absolutely rotten third. Basically, you follow the rather immortal Alice - if you only played the video game, I am sure you were thinking "Alice who?" - in her continuing battle to destroy the Umbrella Corporation, the company responsible in the eventual zombie outbreak that has taken over the entire world. This eventually lead her to a fortified penitentiary, occupied by a small number of survivors... Including... What? Chris Redfield? How? Why? No Way! Eventually, the band of boring characters are forced to leave the building as the zombies are able to find their way in to reap themselves of the last remaining fresh human meat. The movie did steal one enemy from Resident Evil 5 but if you have played that game, you know that the appearance of this creature will not make any sense to the movie storyline whatsoever. There are some fun action sequences though in the movie but just like everything else here, they feel empty and not very satisfying.
The movie was made specifically to utilize 3D technology so it does look better than the post-processed garbage seen recently - like that poor implementation in Piranha 3D. Some scenes do look nice with convincing depth perception but they don't even touch the greatness found in Avatar. You won't miss much from watching this movie is its 2D form but if you love your 3D, at least it's better than average. Overall, another disappointing movie that doesn't deserve the title stolen from the video game. Unfortunately, with its cliffhanger ending, another one will follow suit in the near future to remind us that video games should never be made into movies.
RATING: 2 out of 5
3 comments:
The second movie took elements from resident evil 2 and 3 (i mean the games) so obviously the third movie and this one has nothing to do with the games.
I wasn´t expecting anything special from "after life".
We shouldn´t expect anything from game based movies.
The deviation from the video game storyline occured from the very first movie. They apparently want the movies to be something separate from any of the games but that caused them to be zombie-bitten in the butt.
haha true.
they sould learn from the prince of persia movie
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