Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

"Resident Evil: Retribution" is the most recent release of the "Resident Evil" movie franchise. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the film once again leaves the realm of horror in favor of a sci-fi feeling with nods to classic films such as "Aliens", "Westworld", and "Blade Runner". This movie requires a few viewings before you are able to fully make up your mind as to whether or not the film is any good. I would say yes but only for those who loved the game and the other films in the series. If someone who hasn't seen the other films (in order even) picked up this movie and tried to watch it, their experience would be greatly hampered. The best part of the film was the inclusion of the characters Barry (from the original game) and Leon (from "Resident Evil 2"). The extra monsters are kept simple and at a minimum this time around.

The movie picks up right where the last one ended, with the entire fleet of Umbrella's air force attacking the Arcadia and Alice. The battle is quick and over before you know it.

Sometime later, Alice wakes up in an Umbrella faculty in Russia, being interrogated by the mind-controlled Jill Valentine. Alice escapes when the computer shuts down for two minutes. It turns out that is was Ada Wong, an assistant of Whesker's, who helped Alice escape. Ada's mission is to rescue Alice from the faculty and to keep her alive; A team is coming in to meet them half way, coming from the outside in. The movie then becomes a series of fighting zombies, bigger and meaner monsters, and soldiers and clones of previous faces that have helped Alice at one time or another who are now trying to chase her down and kill her.Along the way, Alice meets a young girl who's mother was an Alice clone. Alice brings her along and does her best to keep her alive as well.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

"Resident Evil: Afterlife" is the fourth film in the franchise and marks the glorious return as Paul W.S. Anderson as both writer and director, and it shows! This films feels more like the original in terms as a horror film with a sense of desperation and being trapped by a horde of zombies. The film's pacing is a bit slow at times, more so than needed, but it still has plenty of action scenes that keep the movie going forward. The issues about Alive being overly powerful and cloned are quickly dealt with in the beginning of the film, a perfect way for the proverbial "reset" button to be pushed in a very satisfying fashion.


The film opens with an exciting showdown between Albert Whesker and the Alice Army. Both Albert and a power-stripped Alice survive.

Later, Alice finds the helicopter that the survivors from Las Vegas used to fly to Alaska. She is attacked by Claire, who is under the control of a mind control device. Alice is able to disable the device and Claire is left without any memory after finding the Arcadia. The two travel to LA where the Arcadia has traveled to (it's a ship) and find more survivors. Together, they fight zombies, find the Arcadia, fight Whesker, fight more zombies, and claim the Arcadia as their own. And then the Umbrella air force arrives and the credits begin to scroll.

Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (2004)

The second installment of the Resident Evil series "Apocalypse" loses all of the horror-like tension and subtlety in favor for more out right action and adrenaline rush. Unfortunately the adrenaline rush is pretty weak and I feel that this is the weakest film of the franchise. Mila Jovovich is still amazing and is the only reason to watch this movie.


A few weeks after the disaster at the underground complex known as the Hive, a second special military team dares to unlocked the sealed faculty only to be overwhelmed by the zombie horde. Now the deadly T-virus has been unleashed upon the citizens of Raccoon City, turning them into mindless, aggressive zombies with a desire only to feed. Alice and Matt were the only ones to escape from the Hive have been separated and taken to their own lab to be monitored and examined. Alice wakes up and regains consciousness after a good deal of time to find that Raccoon City has been over run by zombies. She must fight her way through the city and meets other characters from the game series and is forced to face Matt as an adversary after he emerges mutated and brainwashed, results from being a test subject of the Nemesis Program.

Jill Valentine

Alice, Angela, and Jill

Nemesis