Resident Evil: Retribution Review

Resident Evil: Retribution Review

 

Year: 2012

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez
Directed: Paul W S Anderson
Running Time: 84 Mins Approx.

 

 

 

Hurray another offering from the increasing bad world of Paul W S Anderson’s version of resident evil. When are people going to get fed up of this bad movie cash cow that Anderson has stumbled upon?

Seriously puzzles me how these can just be spurted out every year or so, stemming from a very mediocre original film that didn't impress  very much. The second film nemesis was an improvement of course so Paul pushing for the creation of that and the better success it had is probably what these subsequent films can thank for their creation.
Again we get a semi-nude Milla at the beginning of this film in a scene very reminiscent of the second film, though that’s not till after a very confusing, seeming dream sequence.
That’s all after a small recap of everything that’s gone on in the past films, seriously though was it needed? I mean surely 90% of the people watching this series by now are people who’ve seen most if not all of the last films in hopes of seeing something new and thoughtful.

 

No its not in fact you can tell that Anderson is just writing these in his sleep now, he must wake up one day and just go Milla new RE idea! And splurge his mess over the keyboard.
This like most of Anderson's works suffers from poor dialogue and over the top flashy stuff to detract from the poor story writing. This unfortunately works for a lot of people show them something shiny and they go ah!
Anyway Alice finally wakes clad in two towels held by string at the sides barraged by questions and squealing noises by a now red queen controlled Jill Valentine. Yes the red queen from part 1 has taken over umbrella.
Alice escapes the room with the help of a mystery person. After a while she escapes some zombies and enters a corridor much like the lobby in the matrix, can’t we tell what Paul likes!
So we have a panel lit lobby sequence as a human Alice though some things she does still seem superhuman mashes in about fourteen zombies heads with some lovely slow-mo padlock on chain to the jaw action.
She finds out she was rescued by combined efforts of Ada Wong (Anderson using the vast RE character repertoire) and a strangely (after the last movie) not dead Wesker.
Anyway long story short Red queen wants Alice alive, red queen decides to snuff Alice, red queen wants to snuff human race, and Wesker for some unknown reason wants to stop this?
So this is basically escape an underground facility again before boom, the acting is as with other RE films medium to poor with some strangely familiar faces popping up which I won’t spoil for you as its part of the main storyline.
Also another thing in this film it suffers from is the old infinite bullet syndrome most of the time Alice has 2 giant machine pistols that never seem to need reloading, or for that matter do much damage to anything she hits with them.
More RE characters introduced are Barry Burton and Leon Kennedy, not played by anyone amazingly famous not that would help much with the poor writing of this film, I’m quite glad there’s not a lot of dialogue in this film most conversations are started and ended with guns.
So as this film ends naughty old Wesker injects Alice giving her, her superhuman abilities back yay! with the open ending of yet ANOTHER RE film to come as well oh joy. I do love the resident evil game series so down to that this series will string me along just to see what Anderson fucks over in the world of RE next.

 

In conclusion IF you like the other films and you like bright flashy lights and wiz bangs with no substance then give it a try if not one to miss I’m afraid but its certainly worth 2 stars.