Resident Evil: Extinction

This is a good movie. Good and solid popcorn entertainment. The acting from the cast is good overall. Milla Jovovich delivers a cool performance, the supporting cast are good too. The setting in the desert with a convoy of survivors fighting zombies in the ruins of Las Vegas was a interesting idea. The movie is like Mad Max with zombies and it works pretty well. The action scenes are exciting. The film has a good amount of blood and gore. I like the characters in the story. I cared about them. The film moves along at an alright pace. I enjoyed Resident Evil: Extinction.

While this RE3 was a cracking zombie movie, it strayed to far from the original concept and excepted storyline. In my opinion this has rendered the movie pointless in the RE franchise. Let's not forget that Resident Evil owes it popularity to the game series, so I think it's only right that they try and stick to it, even if it's just a little bit. It seems very much like the director wanted to make an updated version of Day of the Dead, if you've seen DOTD you'll see what I mean in the first 5 minutes of RE3. If this were a stand alone movie I would have given it 10/10, but it isn't, they've tried to be too creative and the director has tried to make a different movie. By doing this he's make a cracking zombie film. but a Resident Evil film, I think not. I only hope this isn't the last one, it would be a terrible waste.

RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (2007) **1/2 Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Spencer Locke, Matthew Marsden, Linden Ashby, Jason O'Mara, Mike Epps. Third chapter in the ever popular video game adapted franchise this time with Jovovich's apocalyptic heroine Alice fitted (to be tied) in a duster and roaming the scorch- ridden wasteland of Las Vegas with a reunion of sorts with Fehr & Epps heading a convoy of refugees a la "The Road Warrior" in hopes to find a new civilization while the ongoing zombie horde * viral outbreak by the nefarious "Umbrella Organization" – led by hiss-able Glen reprising his nasty, evil genius role again – hell-bent on cloning the ass-kicking Alice for their own exploitive means. Not bad but ultimately a tad tedious retread but veteran director Russell Mulcahy keeps the pyrotechnic gore fest on full throttle overload of the senses.

I give this flick a higher rating than the other Resident Evils in the franchise. I've watched them all but I like the setting and the other characters in this cut. This one involved birds as well so it placed more pressure on all the characters. I liked how they used satellite transmission to control her but had to have her in line of sight. Milla is a fave. So getting to see her do any action movie or sci-fi is a treat. It's the on-screen personna.