anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Afterlife is the sequel to 2007's Resident Evil: Extinction. Resident Evil: Afterlife is the fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise and is a follow-up to Resident Evil: Extinction. Alice discovers the laboratory containing clones and she is now in-control of her new powers. Alice begins with an attack on Albert Wesker's Umbrella Corporation headquarters.Like the past two movies, Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the story makes excuses to have its action sequences. The movie also backpedals on its own continuity by removing its own plot developments. Resident Evil: Afterlife removes all of the Alice clones and her superpowers after an enthralling opening sequence. The clone and superpower arc is now irrelevant after the opening sequence.This is not the only story mishap and the story tries to re-use elements from previous movies. Alice finds a group of survivors in a tower. She leads these survivors into a place that is promising sanctuary called Arcadia. This is obviously a lie as everything is owned by The Umbrella Corporation somehow. Even after a zombie apocalypse and bio-weapons roam the world, the Umbrella Corporation is able to still construct new buildings and ships. They are also able to maintain a loyal workforce that does not care about the atrocities they commit.Even the ending sequence of arriving at Arcadia and dealing with Albert Wesker is laughable. The movie is hoping that the would care but they do not. It is hard to care about the story when the movie opens by removing events from the previous movies.Besides the story, the rest of the movie is solid. The action sequences are still fun to watch. Although Alice does not have much character it is still fun to see the stunts that she does. The action scenes are competently shot and edited. The strangeness of some of the scenes however stem from the three dimensional requirement. It felt that because the movie had 3D in mind, some scenes were shot differently and I could tell immediately that these scenes felt different.Fans of the video game may not enjoy this movie if they are expecting a movie based on the video game series. Like Resident Evil: Extinction, this movie uses the same visual style of the monsters and nothing else.Overall, Resident Evil: Afterlife can be a fun action movie to watch. It does not need prior knowledge of the series because of the poor writing.

bobsonsmee This film is so bad that it's not even possible to mentally frame it as a comedy. The visuals are ugly, the dialogue is tripe, the acting is awful, the story is nonsense. And it features the usual, tired, old 3D gimmicks: weapons and debris being hurled directly at the camera every five minutes.I enjoyed the first two movies in the Resident Evil series, but Afterlife really is terrible.

David Arnold In this 4th installment, Alice continues her fight against the Umbrella Corporation. She now finds herself in Alaska in hope of finding some kind of humanity left from the disaster of the T-Virus. After finding Claire Redfield (a survivor she was with in Nevada), they make their way to L.A. where they find another small band of survivors who've taken refuge in a maximum security prison. Working together, they try to find refuge in Arcadia. However, all is not as it seems regarding Arcadia, and with the zombies continuing to surround the prison, it soon becomes a race against time to get to safety.OK, the first three movies were decent....thin on story, granted (apart from really the 1st one), but they had good action & suspense. Unfortunately Resident Evil: Afterlife is messy. It starts out in Japan, where we see the start of the zombie attacks, then 4 years later where Alice and her "friends" try to break into the Umbrella Corporation there, then 6 months later she's hundreds of miles away in Alaska, so it's pretty confusing to follow to start with.The story is, well, to say it's thin would be an understatement. Action is the main reliant, which isn't too bad, however this is basically a Matrix movie with a Resident Evil title. The slow motion action (which were obviously done for the 3D) is pretty cool in a good few scenes, but there's just a bit too many. It's a bit like a John Woo film on crack.Also, this film copies so many other movies as well....Wesker dodging bullets (Neo from The Matrix); bullet time (Max Payne); Axeman character (Pyramid Head from Silent Hill); zombies mouths stretching open (vampires in Blade 2). So really nothing is that original.The acting by Wentworth Miller (who played Chris Redfield) and Shawn Roberts (who played Albert Wesker) was just awful as well, so add that to other mediocre scenes and you have a very lackluster installment to the series. Some very cool action scenes but that's about it for this one really.

badfeelinganger Bound to please the legions of Milla fans who have doubtless poured over the extras-rich DVDs of the first three Resident Evils, as well as her please-sequel-this gem Ultra Violet.Inventive ideas, dazzling 3D and spectacular production design elevate this fourth in the franchise to a juicy bite above the average zombie movie. More of the same, but if you enjoy this kind of thing, that's not necessarily a bad thing.Afterlife is very likely to please at least most of the fans of the series, but don't expect too much aside from Milla looking great and a groovy visual style.If critics and fan boys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.There are worse ways to pass an hour and a half than watching Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter shooting the hell out of zombies and mutants.Milla Jovovich commands the screen and makes all the RE films a fun ride. If you hate the series, this won't change your mind.