{"id":12144,"date":"2025-06-20T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:51:07","slug":"resident-evil-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/06\/20\/resident-evil-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil: Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong> (2010)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screen Gems\/Action-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 96 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, strong bloody violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Paul W.S. Anderson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Paul W.S. Anderson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: tomandandy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Glen MacPherson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: September 10, 2010 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Wentworth Miller, Boris Kodjoe,\u00a0 Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Kacey Barnfield, Norman Yeung, Sergio Peris-Mencheta.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $60.1M (US)\/$296.2M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0Horror movie junkie that I am, I just had to see Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong> in 3-D. As I recall, it really didn\u2019t do a hell of a lot for the movie. If anything, it acted as more of a distraction from the weak story line. Uh huh, Paul W.S. Anderson reclaims the director\u2019s chair for this installment and it shows. It\u2019s still an entertaining movie, but the narrative isn\u2019t as strong as the previous two entries in the Resident Evil series.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I suppose that I shouldn\u2019t really complain too much about Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong>; after all, these movies could have been much, MUCH worse. Look at the Mortal Kombat movies, the first one is bad enough, but the sequel is even worse.\u00a0 Compared to all the other video game movies, the Resident Evil movies all look like Citizen Kane. Besides, they all star that gorgeous bad ass Milla Jovovich and I\u2019m certainly not going to complain about that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In addition, Ali Later returns as Claire Redfield and she\u2019s equally adept at kicking serious zombie ass. By now, you must realize that the Resident Evil flicks are all about the bad ass ladies! Sure, the guys are pretty tough themselves, but it\u2019s the ladies that really take charge of the situation. Perhaps the strong female characters are part of these movies\u2019 appeal? One could successfully argue that the Resident Evil movies belong in an entirely different category, the post-feminist action flick. Fortunately, this is about as deep as these movies get. The audience isn\u2019t looking for deep meaning here, they\u2019ve come to see bad ass babes fighting zombies. You\u2019ll be happy to know that Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong> delivers the goods.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The movie opens with a sequence that looks like it was taken from The Matrix. Alice shows up at Umbrella\u2019s facility in Tokyo to take care of Albert Wesker (Roberts) once and for all. She\u2019s brought a few friends with her; specifically, a whole bunch of clones she created in Dr. Isaac\u2019s facility at the end of the previous movie. The facility gets destroyed, but Wesker manages to get away in his private aircraft. The real Alice, who was waiting for him on the plane, tries to stop him. Unfortunately, he manages to inject her with a serum that strips her of all her superhuman powers. The plane crashes into a mountain and it appears that Wesker dies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Six months later, Alice is travelling around North America, attempting to locate the source of emergency broadcasts from \u201cArcadia\u201d. You see, it turns out that Arcadia is NOT a town in Alaska; it\u2019s the name of a cargo ship that\u2019s been collecting uninfected survivors. After landing in a coastal area, Alice encounters her old friend Claire (Larter) who doesn\u2019t seem to remember her. She\u2019s wearing some kind of mind control device on her chest and it causes her to attack Alice. Alice subdues her and destroys the device, but that doesn\u2019t cure Claire\u2019s amnesia. She puts Claire in her plane and they fly to Los Angeles where they find a group of survivors living in an abandoned maximum security prison.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The new group of survivors, led by former professional athlete Luther West (Kodjoe, Undercovers), includes actress Crystal Waters (Barnfield), movie producer Bennett (Coates, The Last Boy Scout), his intern Kim (Yeung) and Chris (Miller, Prison Break), a mysterious prisoner being held under lock and key. They\u2019re safe in the supposedly secure building for a little while, but the zombies manage to get in and attack Alice. They have to find a way to escape to the safety of the Arcadia which rests right there on the coast.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong> is a fairly standard \u201cfight for survival\u201d story, but that really isn\u2019t such a bad thing. It has more than its fair share of cool action sequences and gross zombie violence. As usual, Anderson opts for style over substance. In this case, it\u2019s easy to understand why. He probably figured that the 3-D effects would compensate for any of the movie shortcomings. It doesn\u2019t. I realized this when I watched the movie again on DVD in regular 2-D. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong> is enjoyable enough, but it\u2019s a comparatively weaker effort on the part of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I suppose that I could fall back on my initial comment about the movie back in \u201910. I said that if you like the other Resident Evil movies, there\u2019s no reason that you won\u2019t like Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/strong>. I could also sum things up by saying \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d Both of these comments are accurate. However, I wonder where things will go from here. The final scene leaves the door wide open for a fifth movie. Based on the trailer, I have some idea where Anderson plans to take the story. In a way, I\u2019m kind of hoping that Resident Evil: Retribution (opening Friday September 14, 2012) will be the final installment. Whether that\u2019s true remains to be seen. We\u2019ll know on Friday, stay tuned.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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