The picture in general is impressive, but the climax of this film outshines damn near every finale in the franchise. Despite basically duplicating the conflict (I said basically), the gore is noticeably more gruesome, the death scenes more memorable and that final villain… good lord (keep in mind I don’t play the games, so I don’t know if he has a history within the game franchise) is he a savage, bad ass looking murderous bastard who seems all but indestructible. Resident Evil: Damnation takes all the strong elements of Degeneration and then multiplies them a few times. It’s so epic, in fact, that it almost saves the film as a whole. This one is completely different, but this much can be said: The final showdown is epic. Our heroes don’t even truly get to any significant battle until the third act, and the Resident Evil films have never taken their time in spilling blood and creating interesting ways to slaughtering people. Instead we got a drawn-out trip into the desert, where the crows attack (yep) and the good guys don’t always survive to save the next day.Īs was the case with Afterlife the zombies are sparse in the film, which completely sucks. Anderson had the chance to give us MAD MAX with zombies and a female protagonist that moviegoers believe in. The third film in the franchise, Resident Evil: Extinction, was damn near as loathsome as Afterlife, and that’s a real bummer. And, well… left me a little fearful: How could anyone release that film. My daughter was prepared to exit the theaters about halfway through the film, and I think her instinctual need to escape torture inspired me a little bit. In short, Resident Evil: Afterlife was a surprisingly boring affair. What we instead got was a snoozefest with so little zombie action that I forgot I was watching a zombie film before subsequently falling asleep (literally) in the theater when I took my oldest to see it. And too many ideas and characters were stuffed into a film that could have potentially dialed back a lot of the minor subplots (while slightly trimming the cast) to give us a stronger and more intimate tale of a war with the undead and some seriously corrupt mother fuckers. Half of the performances felt as though they had been phoned in by drowsy “performers.” The special effects looked noticeably cheaper in this film than the bulk of the other installments. There was no heart in Resident Evil: Afterlife. Some decisions may surprise he general masses, but hardcore gamers may very well see this extended debacle as I personally do. What you’re about to read is a ranking – from worst to first, of the entire Resident Evil franchise. So here we are, trying to make sense of a profoundly strange film franchise. Loyalty to the built in fanbase was clearly disregarded, and the deeper Anderson dug the hole, the fewer true Resident Evil fans cared. Anderson forgot about Resident Evil fans and decided to make outrageous science fiction films that – apparently – he himself enjoys.
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