- when fun and hate collide
The series is at its fifth movie with
this film but has the series gone sour you may ask yourself? Well,
it's hard to go sour when each movie basically reboots itself in some
manner. But fret not readers, I believe this movie is on par with
the first movie (the best of the lot). With more money than you can
shake a stick at being poured into these movies, there is a lot of
flash and bang for your viewing pleasure. That is not to say,
however, that this movie is without faults, serious loopholes,
convenient sequences and, for an added bonus, incredibly stupid
scenes that will drive you batty!
Resident Evil: Retribution opens with a fantastic music track and plays a sequence in rewind. It shows an explosion in reverse, which is cool. But Retribution just keeps going with the sequence in rewind. The bullets unfired, multiple people become undead (see what I did there? Yeah undead, like zombies.. haha... sorry) people unjump from planes. The entire sequence feels as if perhaps it takes a solid 4 or 5 minutes and then just as most people must have figured out, it is shown forwards. The music really saves that part from being one of the most dragged out scenes in the movie. While I'm talking about it, the song Tomandandy - “Flying Through The Air” is really one of the three things that is great about this movie. Seriously! When I left the theatre I was humming it, one of my first of three major positive remarks about the movie. When I got home, I hit up youtube to listen to the song again. In short, the sequence could have been cut to avoid a messy introduction but then it wouldn't really get the viewer ready for the abomination of a story coming right toward you.
Our hero Alice has been taken (played
by Milla Jovovich) and of course can't be left clothed, so they put a
tiny sheet of paper covering her front and back. Sex sells I suppose,
although storywise there isn't much of a reason for this. But then
again, the story is paper thin. There are some seriously glaring
holes in the plot, such as the bad guy who we all saw die is somehow
totally fine and nobody seems to ask how or why?! There are a few
other problems such as are the clones teleported in place? How in the
world did that kid stay alive for so long? Like the movies before it
in the series, pretty quickly whatever happened in previous movies
are either forgotten or destroyed by some plot element in the new
one. Case in point is, of course, the bad guy who now does not have
a bullet in the brainpan.
Characters are introduced by name and
most people around them say things like “I know all about you”
Ada (played by Bingbing Li) is the worst offence. The viewer doesn't
(nor will they ever) know a thing but their name. The best chance
you have of feeling anything toward the characters is if you played
the games which is silly in itself as most characters are nothing
like their video game counter-parts. They are similar in clothing and
use similar style guns to the characters they portray from the games.
Anyone who is familiar with the games will instantly know Ada, Leon
(played by Johann Urb), Barry (playedby Kevin Durand and Jill (played
by Sienna Guillory) and possibly a few others. So, like all the
previous movies in the series, don't go to this movie expecting an
expanded universe of your beloved video game. Think of it as just a
little nod to fans of the games while the made-up character and tale
of Alice is fully developed as the only real character who matters.
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| Gamers know to shoot the obvious weak spot. People know this is sexism. |
The skinny is the movie is stupid,
geared toward pubescent boys with some decent action sequences.
I give it 5/10
PS: The third thing was every single
time Barry spoke. He is awesome.
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