Simply Perfect

Great Film overall

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Retribution is the sequel to Resident Evil: Afterlife. Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth movie in the franchise and takes place after Resident Evil: Afterlife. Alice is captured and in a secret Umbrella Corporation laboratory. A team is assembled to rescue Alice in the laboratory.This movie does not fix the poor writing in the previous movies. The movie starts with the attack on the freighter that happens in reverse as an introductory credits scene. The movie then flashes ahead to a clone Alice dealing with a zombie attack in her home. The movie then finally sets up the main arc of the movie with the assembled team infiltrating the arctic base to rescue Alice.In previous movies, the Umbrella Corporation had many baffling events playing into their favor. In this movie, the Umbrella Corporation have a large laboratory in the arctic where they clone city amounts of people to simulate the viruses they have created's effects on a city. This is explained by the Umbrella Corporation selling the viruses to the highest bidder but this only makes sense if the world's countries have not collapsed. By this movie, the world's governments have collapsed and this lab is still in use. People are still being cloned to simulate bio-weapon attacks. This is a central component of the story and it makes no sense.Anybody hoping for a follow-up to characters in the previous movies will not see it here. The characters in the previous movies are ignored to focus on the Alice character. This is not a good choice as Alice was never a developed character. The most character development she got was in the first movie.The action in this movie suffers from the same disadvantages as in Resident Evil: Afterlife. The movie relies too much on 3D where the directing suffers for 2D viewers. The effects in this movie are competently done.This movie does use more characters from the video game series, but they do not resemble their video game counterparts. The movie continues to use their visual style but not their written stories.Resident Evil: Retribution is not recommended. This movie has too many problems to be even entertaining.

From the opening credits, which show the immediate continuation of the previous film (but in reverse) onwards this feels like watching a videogame that some other unknown person (or perhaps a machine) is playing. Consequently it feels entirely contrived and there is no viewer involvement at any level, as it lacks both the structure and character development of a film story or the participatory element of a videogame one is playing oneself. It has got to the point where there are so many manufactured and or rebooted versions of the Alice figure and other participants that the entire series has lost any meaningful connection for the audience, despite the director's attempt to persuade us otherwise, as the multi-rebooted Alice decides to protect a child who was manufactured for the role of daughter to a manufactured suburban version of her. Basically, with all this cloning, anybody can be destroyed and brought back to serve a plotline that is becoming increasingly absurd. And we all know that clones aren't the real thing, but likely to be programmed by Umbrella, or the Red Queen, or Wesker, to serve some nefarious purpose that I have lost interest in knowing about.

OK now let me first tel you this , i was a really big fan of the game an i played it nonstop when i was young i loved it so much that sort of finished the all resident evil games more than 10 times, The game was really scary and most of all it was all about ZOMBIES ! *Normal walking zombies *NOT BRUCE LEE ZOMBIESAnd the worst part is the girl in the game was so hot we got actually excited for the game but no offence The main actor Milla Jovovich is NOT HOT ! i'm sorry but you should have chosen a girl more hotter ! I really hated the movie and i'm so disappointed cause they ruined my favorite gameThe movie effects was awful just awful ..... Don't watch it it sucked....

It's just like come on every time with this film series, it never ever improves and yet again this movie is a step down from the last outing. We see again a movie full of action, easy to follow yes but fun, my word no, this is awful and that is not a word I have had to previously use on the franchise before. We see this time Alice (Milla Jovovich) fighting yet again, things pick up from where the last film left off, down to the second actually and from then on we see a mass adventure that goes nowhere and only provides glimpses of some decent action choreography that just doesn't mean anything among all the terrible lines spewed out. The man behind this all is Paul W. S. Anderson who is a producer on this film as well as the director and writer, and oh how he screws this one up, a movie I feel just didn't need to be made, or actually, just made well!Jovovich is typical in her role as Alice and for those who have come to get used to her acting it is same old, really though I do feel the writing makes her feel worse as an actor though. This movie is obsessed with throwing things from the past right back at you and none of them work, it feels like Anderson ran out of ideas within the first 5 minutes and just couldn't be bothered to make something even half decent. The plot is full but flimsy, in fact so full it is that by the end it is breaking off and becoming increasingly run of the mill with every passing second. We see some new faces and some we have seen before but truly none of them work, the villains seem like the shoddiest creation of this movie(the story isn't far off though).Anderson just doesn't seem to get it that he's not making good movies, sure you can make a few poor one's and they'll blow over eventually, but this is something else. The series started out under average and was poor too but never was it truly very bad but now it is has reached that and maybe it is the annoyance I have for this series or that it just gets worse every time but, I just had to describe this as awful. Let's talk about the technical points and the CGI is OK at times but even that is used stupidly, the sets are something from a weird dream that is also a nightmare and all the time I just felt what a waste of not only production designers, but also of imagination.I'm not going to rant for nine pages about how I hated this, I'm going to leave it for you to see if you haven't all ready, I know even some like these kind of OTT action movies but this one really does not stand out and can't even rank well among it's not even OK predecessors. I hope one day Anderson can look back on his career and realise this was not a good move, I even hope he can make one film where everyone likes it and says "Hey great job Paul" and not "Remember when you made those dumb zombie movies Paul, they were real bad". So yes, Resident Evil Retribution, a movie that is hard to recommend unless you're either really into zombies or really into Milla Jovovich, and even then there are many better zombie movies out there, and movies with Jovovich in that are also much better.