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…

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…

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…