Starring Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil: Afterlife is a somewhat scary action thriller about a zombie dominated planet during present times. It's the fourth movie in the franchise.
Alice (Jovovich) is the former head of security at the Umbrella Corporation, the company that created the T-Virus that accidentally escaped and turned everybody into zombies. She travels to Alaska to what she thinks is a small town called Arcadia, where there is supposedly a colony of survivors that are infection free. She is drawn by transmissions saying that they offer safety and security, food and shelter. When she arrives, nothing is there, but she picks up Claire Redfield (Larter) and travels to what once was Los Angeles where there is another colony of four survivors living atop a prison rooftop and surrounded by zombies. They find that the Arcadia is actually a ship just offshore. Can they make it to the ship?
Milla Jovovich plays a very action intensive role. She's constantly killing zombies in the most interesting and awesome fashion. I didn't like her character mainly because she never shows any emotion, even after something terrible happens, like whenever one of the survivors gets infected with the virus and becomes a zombie. However, I liked her action scenes. She has a lot of talent when it comes to killing the zombies in situations that seem like she can't kill them at all. She has a cool and stealthy role. Ali Larter's character Claire seems to help Alice out whenever there's a scene that involves killing zombies. I don't think that this role is exactly a match for her. In the third movie, she played the leader of a convoy trying to find a survivor's convoy and her role did not call for much fighting zombies. I think she is really a good actress, but just not for her roles in Resident Evil.
The special effects are quite good. Los Angeles is completely destroyed by what would look like a war, but instead it's destroyed because of the zombies. There are new types of zombies in "Afterlife". They look like humans still but they have strange things coming out of their mouths and its honestly quite disturbing, but it's supposed to be. And they show up very suddenly which makes the viewer jump. This is why it's a horror film. It's only available to be seen in 3D which is extremely awesome because this film is clearly made to be in 3D. I like how in some of the action scenes, it's literally in-your-face action. It reinforces why 3D movies are so popular. I enjoy the feeling that things are popping out of the screen because it makes the viewer feel like they are actually part of the film. Overall, the special effects are very good.
In the end, this is a film worth watching while it is still in theaters. However, you have to have seen the first three films in order to understand what really is going on. But I warn you, it's bloody, disturbing, and a lot of the scenes are done in slow motion to emphasize the action. There are too many slow mo scenes. But I'm a big fan of zombie movies and if you like them too, definitely see Resident Evil: Afterlife. 4 and a half stars.
Alice (Jovovich) is the former head of security at the Umbrella Corporation, the company that created the T-Virus that accidentally escaped and turned everybody into zombies. She travels to Alaska to what she thinks is a small town called Arcadia, where there is supposedly a colony of survivors that are infection free. She is drawn by transmissions saying that they offer safety and security, food and shelter. When she arrives, nothing is there, but she picks up Claire Redfield (Larter) and travels to what once was Los Angeles where there is another colony of four survivors living atop a prison rooftop and surrounded by zombies. They find that the Arcadia is actually a ship just offshore. Can they make it to the ship?
Milla Jovovich plays a very action intensive role. She's constantly killing zombies in the most interesting and awesome fashion. I didn't like her character mainly because she never shows any emotion, even after something terrible happens, like whenever one of the survivors gets infected with the virus and becomes a zombie. However, I liked her action scenes. She has a lot of talent when it comes to killing the zombies in situations that seem like she can't kill them at all. She has a cool and stealthy role. Ali Larter's character Claire seems to help Alice out whenever there's a scene that involves killing zombies. I don't think that this role is exactly a match for her. In the third movie, she played the leader of a convoy trying to find a survivor's convoy and her role did not call for much fighting zombies. I think she is really a good actress, but just not for her roles in Resident Evil.
The special effects are quite good. Los Angeles is completely destroyed by what would look like a war, but instead it's destroyed because of the zombies. There are new types of zombies in "Afterlife". They look like humans still but they have strange things coming out of their mouths and its honestly quite disturbing, but it's supposed to be. And they show up very suddenly which makes the viewer jump. This is why it's a horror film. It's only available to be seen in 3D which is extremely awesome because this film is clearly made to be in 3D. I like how in some of the action scenes, it's literally in-your-face action. It reinforces why 3D movies are so popular. I enjoy the feeling that things are popping out of the screen because it makes the viewer feel like they are actually part of the film. Overall, the special effects are very good.
In the end, this is a film worth watching while it is still in theaters. However, you have to have seen the first three films in order to understand what really is going on. But I warn you, it's bloody, disturbing, and a lot of the scenes are done in slow motion to emphasize the action. There are too many slow mo scenes. But I'm a big fan of zombie movies and if you like them too, definitely see Resident Evil: Afterlife. 4 and a half stars.
I don't like zombies or zombie movies, so based on your review, I'm going to skip Resident Evil: Afterlife. Frankly, even reading your review scared me!
ReplyDeleteJust to add to the part about the slow-mo, they set it up just like the matrix, you would see the bullets just barely pass the person and it would have that clearish thing that showed where the bullet was going.
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