in the near future cheap/crappy cloning tech will mean that all of us will have a mass grave full of ourselves like a junk drawer of obsolete cell phones and cords that don't go to anything

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no matter how few dudes in suits there are left in the world those dudes will find a conference table somewhere and hold a self-important meeting each secretly congratulating themselves that they are one of only x number of dudes in suits left in the world and therefore the best of the best

((honestly could have watched like 90 minutes of zombie animals doing whatever except you know zombies, but if RE:E's heart is in the right place which is in the let's-tape-pie-tins-and-chicken-wire-to-the-outside-of-a-range-rover-because-it-is-the-end school…

52/100

Resident Evil: Extinction is a definite improvement over Apocalypse, not only in filmmaking competence but in world-building and franchise progression. Led by Russell Mulcahy, director of Highlander, The Shadow and the twisted brilliance that is Razorback, Extinction is a Resident Evil installment told through action, even more so than Anderson's original. Desolate, barren landscapes are evoked not though exposition but by the movements of bands of survivors and loosely connected set-piece moments. Buildings, structures, and monuments are remnants of a world lost, with diseased zombies populating it not only out of hunger but out of habit. Alice as a character is fascinating in this outing, mainly because of her added Telekinetic powers and the way she utilizes them to…

This is the best one so far. From the opening moments it looks better than the previous movies, set in a desert landscape that is appropriate for its title, besides deserts always look awesome on film. In Resident Evil: Extinction they basically forego any plot and instead go with a simplistic ‘trying to get from point A to point B’ narrative. Thank you. If you aren’t going to write a compelling story in the first place you might as well abandon it all together, wise choice. A few characters from the last one return in addition to a new band of vagabonds including Claire Redfield, another slight nod to the games which by the way they have entirely given up…

"It's a murder honey, a group of crows is called a murder" - Homer Simpson (nif)

I just realized that I have nothing to offer a post-apocalyptic world and it has made me really sad.

Several years after the events of Apocalypse, Alice navigates a desert wasteland with a group of survivors trying to get to a new society. The Umbrella Corporation is hot on her heels, then... stuff happens. It's got a Mad Max/The Walking Dead crossover vibe that isn't very original but is in fact kind of fun.

I will say that this is the first film in the series that makes me feel like they cared some about the characters and weren't just trying to replicate a…

A very Romero-esque film, when it doesn't feel like a video game. Quite reminiscent of Day of the Dead, with a touch of The Road Warrior and an ending that feels ripped right out of the games, complete with a final boss. Some great practical makeup effects on display here as well.

While these films deviate from the story in the games, creating an alternate universe version of events, this comes awfully close to capturing the tone of the games. If things had gone differently, I could imagine this, with some slight modifications, being the plot to one of the games, taking place somewhere shortly after the events of 2 and 3. I don't think it would feel out of…

Jovovich remains the best reason to watch these movies. When the focus is on her, Extinction is pretty good. When we're forced to spend time with the other survivors, it's about as generic as it gets.

There are a handful of standout sequences here, most notably the crow attack, which might be the best thing in any of the first three Resident Evil movies. But man, so much of this movie is just so aggressively copy-pasted from other zombie and post-apocalypse stories. Based on the premise alone, you can see virtually every story beat coming from a mile away: the supporting character who gets bitten but doesn't tell anyone, the woman who cries for help but is really luring the…

i gather these movies get more formally adventurous as they go along (thank god because they only hold up individually when broken down for their constituent parts), and this had some real kicker moments, but i'm still desperate for a good craftsperson to take over the franchise. these movies don't just need people who fully appreciate the concept they've been given, though that was especially lacking in the execution of a great sandbox setup for the second movie. they need someone who understands how to reconcile fun formal exercises with the very basic but very potent themes that are starting to underlie these films as they start to play more with, for example, the distance between the umbrella corp and…