First off, I dug the first two Resident Evil movies. They were decent enough in themselves and had action. Extinction however.. dull, dull, dull. It wasn’t even close to Carrie meets Mad Max of the Living Dead like i’d expected. There’s barely any action and only a couple of visually stimulating scenes. It starts out like the first movie then turns out to be a simulation they’ve been testing Alice clones in. They even use the same footage to trick you into thinking the wrong film was playing. Gay, cheap and annoying.
Anyway, then we realize it’s five years after the previous film and the world has been destroyed by the T-virus and zombies.. yet Umbrella somehow has stayed in business and continues evil-doing ways, this time it’s trying to make zombies smart. The Nevada Hive’s Queen is White and.. also an English little girl (boring).
Ali Larter (Heroes, Final Destination) plays Clair Redfield who’s leading a convoy of survivors to nowhere in particular. I almost walked out when In a Gadda-divida played, that was some seriously unneeded queerness. I actually covered my ears which made me miss some of the dialog too. Jill isn’t in this one, but the black guy and other guy from Apocalypse is.
The only good part was in the begining when Alice got captured by some fuckheads who tried to feed her to zombie Doberman. Apparently her psychic powers are unstable and not as bad-ass as they were at the end of Apocalypse either.
The final showdown against the mutated scientist pretty much is over as soon as it starts and everyone but Alice, Ali Larter and child-extras die.. Wesker lives (as if he’s really in this that much) and ends with Alice deciding to go to Japan to take him down leading an army of Alice clones. Which sounds cool until you realise 2 ended cool and they fucked that up. Oh, no Mila titties in this one either, until one of the last frames which could really anyone.
