{"id":12146,"date":"2025-06-20T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:52:04","slug":"resident-evil-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/06\/20\/resident-evil-retribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil: Retribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Resident Evil: Retribution <\/strong>(2012)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screen Gems\/Action-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence throughout)\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 14, 2012 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer, Johann Urb, Li Bingbing, Shawn Roberts, Kevin Durand, Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe, Colin Salmon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $42.3M (US)\/$240.1M (World)<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0For better or for worse, here we go with Resident Evil: Retribution<\/strong>, the fifth installment of the popular video game movie series. Fans will be pleased to know that it\u2019s a slight improvement over Afterlife. It\u2019s also equally as silly as any given entry in the series.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In my opinion, the most significant thing about the Resident Evil films is how each one openly borrows from other movies in the sci-fi\/horror\/action genre. Over the course of four movies, I\u2019ve seen nods to Escape from New York, The Road Warrior, Day of the Dead and The Matrix. You can now add Aliens to the list. In this latest chapter of the Alice (Jovovich) saga, she must protect a little girl from a big slimy monster while trying to escape from yet another underground facility, this time in Moscow. Can we say Ripley and Newt? The kid\u2019s name is Becky (Engineer, Orphan) and, depending on which reality the characters find themselves in, she may or may not be Alice\u2019s daughter. Say what? It\u2019s okay, I\u2019ll clear up this last statement momentarily.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Allow me to preface my synopsis of the plot by saying that Resident Evil: Retribution<\/strong> is the wildest entry in the series. It appears as though writer-director Anderson hit a real creative stride with this flick. It doesn\u2019t necessarily make it the best of the Resident Evil movies, but it certainly makes it stand out a lot better than the previous installment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Resident Evil: Retribution<\/strong> picks up exactly where Afterlife left off. A fleet of airships attacks the Arcadia and all of the survivors on board including Alice. The attack is led by Jill Valentine (Guillory), Alice\u2019s ally from Apocalypse. She\u2019s now under the control of the Umbrella Corporation; she\u2019s wearing the same mind control device on her chest that Alice found on Claire Redfield in the previous chapter. Alice gets captured and taken to the Umbrella facility in Moscow. It\u2019s there that we see Alice in an alternate reality. She\u2019s a suburban housewife in Raccoon City. She lives in a nice house with her husband Carlos (Fehr) and hearing-impaired daughter Becky. Their morning routine is interrupted by a zombie attack. Alice grabs Becky and attempts to flee. Suddenly, she wakes up and finds herself imprisoned in the Moscow facility. Jill shows up and attempts to interrogate her with no success. The power unexpectedly goes out and Alice manages to escape from her cell. This is when things get really strange.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Alice finds herself battling zombies in Tokyo; it\u2019s a re-enactment from the first scene in Afterlife. Then she finds herself back at Umbrella where she encounters Albert Wesker (Roberts) and his top associate Ada Wong (Bingbing). It turns out he\u2019s the one who helped her escape from her cell; he and Ada no longer work for Umbrella. The Red Queen (remember her from the first movie?) now controls everything and wants Project Alice terminated. It also turns out that the Moscow facility is the testing ground for their biological warfare experiments, hence the formation of replicas of major cities from around the world. Wesker has arranged for a team of commandos to infiltrate the facility (located underwater) and rescue Alice and Ada. Together, they must reach the point of exit within two hours while fighting off Jill and her mercenaries. They also face off against super-zombies and other mutated creatures. Whew! Did you get all that?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Eventually, Resident Evil: Retribution<\/strong> becomes a more standard kind of horror-sci-fi-actioner with the heroes attempting to dodge some pretty nasty adversaries. Danger lurking around every corner, little girl in peril, a really ugly monster, a confined space \u2026.. you\u2019ll find all this and more right here. It shouldn\u2019t work as well as it does, but dammit, this flick is entertaining!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once again, the ladies are in charge and they\u2019re just as tough as ever. This installment brings together the ladies of Resident Evil movies past. Alice, Jill and Rain (Rodriguez) who\u2019s either an ally or enemy depending on which reality the action takes place. Ada Wong makes a nice addition to the gallery of female bad asses. Of course, there\u2019s no denying that Jovovich leads the pack. I wish all tough girls looked that hot.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Resident Evil: Retribution<\/strong> has plenty of great action sequences as well as some fairly decent special effects. This time around, Anderson appears to abandon his usual \u201cstyle over substance\u201d directorial style and make a movie with a half-decent plot. Sure, it\u2019s as silly as they come and it\u2019s all done very loudly, but somehow it actually works. I know that I shouldn\u2019t like the Resident Evil movies, but there\u2019s something about Alice that makes me keep coming back every time one of these movies come out. They\u2019re still the best of the video game movies. I guess that I still have a few traces of the teenage Movie Guy 24\/7 that would show up on opening weekend every time a new Friday the 13th<\/sup> or Nightmare on Elm Street movie came out. Some things just never die, but who says that\u2019s a bad thing? One thing\u2019s for sure, I\u2019ll be back in two or three years when the sixth Resident Evil movie comes out.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screen Gems\/Action-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence throughout)\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 14, 2012 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer, Johann Urb, Li Bingbing, Shawn Roberts, Kevin Durand, Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe, Colin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Resident-Evil-5-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12174,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}