Review of Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) by Joseph M — 27 Apr 2012

Movie adaptations of video games have a tendency to suck, and while there are some that are good (Mortal Kombat) most of them suck. Unfortunately, Resident Evil Afterlife is one of the sucky ones. Afterlife picks up where the last Resident Evil film left off, a character who is not from the games named Alice is going after an evil corporation called Umbrella who basically has turned almost everyone in the world into zombies and she wants to stop them before they do.

.. something, while rescuing any survivors she finds. The plot, well... there isn't one, not in the slightest is there even a resemblance of a plot. Well, what about character development, the answer to that question is "What Characters? All I saw was slow motion action scenes".

Speaking of slow motion action scenes, there are way too many scenes that go into slow motion for no reason other than the fact that this film's director (Paul W.S Anderson) apparently has a fetish for the Matrix films, hell even the first ten minutes are ripped off from the Matrix, they ripped off the biggest scene in that film! About halfway into the film Alice goes to a prison where survivors are hiding and meets up with a bunch of side characters that you aren't going to give a damn about so I am not going to name them, she also meets Claire Redfield's brother palyed by the guy from the tv show Prison Break, who gives a horrible preformance.

Hell, everyone in this movie does a terrible job, especially the guy who plays Albert Wesker(Shawn Roberts) the leader of Umbrella, but I can't really blame him as the script is so bad that even Robert De Niro couldn't make it sound good! Now, Paul W.

S Anderson says that he loves the video games (Resident Evil 5 specifically), well let me tell you this: As a huge fan of the video games, this film has NO resemblance to the games other than then some of the characters and that it has the same name.

He also shoves in shit from the game into the film for no reason and it makes no damn sense. For example, while in the prison the survivors encounter a massive man who the zombies don't f**k with, while in the middle of all this crap has managed to build a huge ass axe.

Where did he come from, is he a zombie, why is he after these people? The movie never gives us an answer. The only things I will give this film credit for is that the 3D is actually pretty good (This was filmed with the same cameras James Cameron used to make Avatar) and that the film looks goregous, the backgrounds look beautiful.

This is my message to Paul W.S Anderson: Stop raping the Resident Evil franchise!