Review of Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) by Giovanni Luigi C — 26 Jun 2016

I have been a fan of the Resident Evil games for quite some time.  I remember playing in my old apartment when no one was home and hearing strange noises that weren't coming from the game.  In this aspect Extinction doesn't disappoint.

 There are quite a few jumpy moments.  Also, Extinction introduces those bastard crows which can slowly pick you to death in the games.  But zombies, the backbone of the games, are a bit scarce in this film which terribly disappointed me.

 I mean that was how the franchise started.  Why abandon it?  Instead Extinction focuses on Alice and a convoy of unimportant characters who soon meet their death headed by game fav Claire Redfield.

 Returning are L.J. (Mike Epps) and Carlos (Oded Fehr).  Remember how funny L.J. was in Apocalypse?  He has no funny time here.  In fact he's the first of the convoy to go zombie.  Too bad.  He was funny.

 I also didn't realize Las Vegas would look like Yuma if left to the desert.  Who knew?  The super saddest part of the flick is when Carlos gets chawed on.  Alas, he goes down like a true champ.

 He plows the gas truck into the Umbrella stronghold in Vegas, finds a stashed joint and smokes it before he blows up the truck.  I'll miss you Carlos.  Good news for the remaining survivors the cure lies in Alice's blood!  But that's the last we hear of that.

 Alice spends the remaining few minutes of the film threatening Umbrella's big boss Sunglasses Man with her newly formed clone army.  Weird eh?  I guess in the end I was just a little disappointed.

 So I'll leave it up to you.