RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Rated R for profanity, a lot of bloody violence, and ongoing ear-shattering noise): If you recall any of the earlier three movie versions of the vid game (which I'm told is fairly good), you don't really have to see this unless you are a born masochist. It has 3D for those who want to witness planes skimming over glaciers or visiting the inside of huge, expansive white hangars along with tossed axes, artillery, shattered glass and some updated tech sights & sounds, go with it.
Paul W.S Anderson has again written & directed this poorly written & poorly directed flick, once again with Milla Jovovich in the lead (her acting improved; if she keeps up like this, it won't be long before she'll be a fair actress) with a cast including thousands of zombies who also are as competent as she.
Great plot: Alice (Jovovich), now returned to her regular self, has two plans in mind: revenge (from the last sequel) & saving the world from immanent destruction. Actually, she becomes responsible for a lot of destruction herself, but with good intentions. She scouts the world, returns to a zombi-packed, totally destroyed Los Angeles, with scene after boring scene of shoot-em-up wreckage, including one in which she runs from a violent explosion - you know, you've seen it done before. Same for most of the rest of the flick. It's an abomination, one that I left after about 35-minutes, my ears still ringing from Tom Dandy's continuously hideous use of thumping, pumping, thudding timpani at top volume.
You know the first rule in Hollywood: if you can't be good, be loud & fast. This is the loudest, fastest movie I've seen in years. (Grade: F)
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