Resident Evil: Extinction

Many times better than the awful Resident Evil: Apocalypse in every respect, and maybe better than the first RE in a few areas but slightly inferior overall.

The movie and actors look really good, the action is great, none of the really shitty blurry slow-motion from RE:A.

I'd find Umbrella to be more believable if the men at the meetings were older. Iain Glen is the oldest of all of them and brings a lot, but his superiors should have had some grey hair and wrinkles also.

There are a few weak special effects:
The truck explosion is poorly composited with the compound.
The stretch armstrong tentacles of the Tyrant look bad- though the Tyrant itself is very good.
There are some weak shots of the crows

It's not clear why the planet has turned to desert- the simultaneous failure and destruction of all human industry maybe? They can have that and use that if they want. It's also strange that everything is desert, but then the protagonists journey to Las Vegas which is already desert now- I would think they would go somewhere where it would be more visually shocking to see something once lush and fertile converted to sand dunes.

I didn't like the minor characters that get a lot of development so their deaths are more meaningful- Oded Fehr's character deserves it but do we really need Mike Epps and Ashanti, and some random young girl and a computer nerd? The ending of the movie suggests a sequel that consists of Milla Jovovich and her army of naked clones (there might be some red dresses around somewhere), which would be awesome and probably all anyone really wants to see. The minor characters are especially stupid because even though they've apparently survived for a while against the zombies they still wander around in abandoned buildings by themselves so that they can get bitten.

The Road Warrior references are nice, but a good high speed car chase is missing. Couldn't Umbrella have some vehicles and zombie dropping helicopters and attack the convoy while on the road?

Some of the best scenes are all references to the first movie, which is interesting- you can make an okay movie, and crappy sequel, and then make a big deal about returning to the original and it seems brilliant.

Is there any way to get Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie together in a movie- Tomb Raider vs. Resident Evil? Or Tomb Raider: The Sixth Element? I would sign a petition to that effect, contribute some tens of dollars to the funding of that movie.



I think I'd like to own all the movies, maybe on Blu-ray or HD-DVD when I get a player and HDTV...