Resident Evil Afterlife

So Resi/Afterlife picks up pretty much exactly where the last film left off, wasting no time in cutting off several of the series more idiotic plot points like they were freshly zombified limbs. Alice’s army of super clones are wiped out in the first 15 minutes, proving that cloning is obviously not the way forward and that brain cells are seemingly not a part of the package. Alice herself is then nerfed ‘God of War’ style by the wonderfully wooden Wesker (try saying that ten times) and loses all of her super powers although this doesn’t really seem to affect her in any significant way other than losing her psychic shockwave powers.

She then meets up with the increasingly attractive Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and they find their way to an abandoned prison in which a handful of horror movie stereotypes have holed up waiting for rescue.

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The Zombies themselves now do the split mouthy thing from Resi 5 for no apparent reason other than it looks cool and also borrowing from Resi 5’s bestiary is the Executioner who shows up with no explanation and for no reason other than to look scary in the trailer. He does however have the best scene in the movie where he battles Claire Redfield in a slo-mo shower fest which is as awesome as it sounds.

Speaking of Claire, we are finally introduced to her badass brother and Resident Evil legend Chris Redfield, who is played by that bloke from Prison Break and the entire sibling history is summed up in a conversation a little like this:-

CHRIS: Claire it’s me Chris, I’m your brother!

CLAIRE: Wait a second, I don’t remember you!

CHRIS: Oh sorry. I won’t bring it up again.

And that’s it, like many important plot points the movie just kind of gives up on the whole thing before it’s even started, it feels kind of like a theatrical cut where all of the character development was left on the cutting room floor to make room for all of the slow-motion.

Having said all this however I did enjoy Resident Evil: Afterlife, the effects were pretty good, the leading ladies are easy on the eye and the 3D was quite well done and not too ‘in your face’. If you enjoyed the other three movies you’ll enjoy this and if you didn’t then avoid like the plague.

At the end of the day watching a Resident Evil movie is kind of like turning up for an S&M session, you know it’s going to hurt but some of us will enjoy it all the same…