Review of Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) by Pangarang — 07 Mar 2011

Terrible. Whether or not it follows the game, this movie fails in both schools of thought. As a movie onto itself, no elements are explained. Want an explanation on the chest spiders? Chris/Claire/Wesker relations? Where the executioner came from and how he is different than the zombies? The presence of type 2 plagas amidst t-virus zombies? How Alice survived a plane crash when she has no powers and is just a regular human? You won't find them in the movie.

If you think the movie should follow the games, you are out of luck too. The inclusion of the chest spiders, the type 2 plagas, the executioner and even Chris Redfield himself was just a nod to RE5 and are obviously force-written into the script.

There is ZERO explanation as to how the Plagas and Executioner came into existence, or why they're even there besides a brief slow-mo fight scene. Chris's reunion with Claire had the potential sucked out of it when Claire was under the amnesia-influence of the drugs from the chest spider (that's not even what it does in the game, but whatever) and didn't even recognize him.

Not that it mattered because that was the only mention of them being siblings in the entire movie anyway. Then there's the Redfield showdown with Wesker - which was never mentioned before, and all of a sudden we're supposed to know that this is an epic fight.

Weak writing, weaker story, force-feeding the audience elements from the game that were not explained to fit the movie's storyline. The only reason I didn't give this a 0 rating was because the graphics, zombie make up, and fight scenes were fantastic.