Review of Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) by Tobbii — 04 Oct 2010

Bad acting, bad action, bad script and bad pacing. There you have the recipe that Paul W.S. Anderson put together to create his latest masterpiece, Resident Evil: Afterlife.

The film picks up where the last one ended, with Alice having a whole bunch of clones. Now I'll get in to a little spoiler bit here, consider this a warning. All the clones die in the first action scene.

This film is 90 minutes long, out of that the action probably takes 25 minutes at tops, and that's including slow-motion and bad one-liners in the middle of them. Speaking of slow-motion, 75% of the action sequences are entirely in slow-motion and it gets old really quick.

The story goes nowhere and the dialogue feels deader than the dialogue in the original 1996 Resident Evil game. The middle 55 minutes of this film is constant talking about nothing of interest with character void of any personality. We even get introduced to Chris Redfield, a classic character from the game, who in the film does absolutely nothing from the moment he steps on screen until the credits roll.

The fact that the franchise has made it to its fourth instalment with critics panning every entry thus far is amazingly mind boggling and I guarantee we'll see a fifth one in a few years. If this and the previous ones are any indication, the next one will be even worse.

I'd give this a lower score if it wasn't for the fact that there is but one good action scene, though waiting about 60 minutes for it to happen wasn't fun and it was over in 3 minutes.

Don't pay to see this film, it's not worth it. If you want to spend 90 minutes of your life watching monsters and clunky dialogue, then go watch someone playing through the original game, it takes about as long and is actually entertaining. Hell, you could even watch the DOOM film, that one was much better than this.