Resident Evil: Afterlife

Director	Paul W. S. Anderson
Release year	2010
Genre	Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
My watch history	2020-12-16 2024-03-30
Actors	Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe
IMDB	IMDB

Review

Dangerous virus have escaped from a lab of Umbrella corporation and that have caused people to turn to zombies. Alice tries to find survivors from Arcadia but it is not that kind of safe haven as it should have been. Alice needs to fight again for survival against zombies and people of Umbrella corporation.

I had seen this once previously, but I only remembered maybe one or two small scenes so it should tell something about the movie - or about my memory. This was mostly just an average action film.

Like the first Resident Evil this was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Since I didn't had memories of this movie I was excepting terrible chop-chop editing what will annoy me, but it was a pleasant surprise that on this movie there was not that much of that kind editing. Instead this time we have a lots of slow motions on fighting scenes, maybe even a little bit too much on same cases, but still I was more than happy to see those rather than annoyingly fast edits. Also, many of the slow motion scenes were beautifully done.

This movie have visually pleasing style and at least on UHD disc with HDR it just looks nice. Colors are beautifully chosen and white chamber on the Arcadia was nice.

Effects were from time to time a little bit overly clearly CGI for my taste, but it didn't annoy much since there was not too much that kind of scenes.

Plot works even it has not much to tell. Average filler story what works as a part of the whole story what we have seen in previous Resident Evil movies (Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction). If you have not background info from those movies then this story might not give much. Well, even if you have seen those movies you don't get much out of this plot but at least there is continuity.

Audio was again very well made. Acting was sometimes a little bit absurd. I don't mean that the actors were doing bad job, not at all. I mean that on some scenes characters reactions were just strange since there was not much reaction at all. When one of the group member dies, nobody seems to react at all to it, they just go on like nothing had happened. Also the bad guy from Umbrella corporation seems overly macho and "cool" that it ws somehow comical for my taste.

What I didn't liked was the stupidity of the characters on some point. When they have met the enemy and they have shot, shot and shot more and it has died and then it again rise and they shot it again back down, why on earth they didn't just cut his head off to be sure that it won't rise again? It just felt dumb.

All in all, I enjoyed this movie. Its plot is quite mediocre and it does not give you much background information so if you have not seen previous Resident Evil -movies this might feel even more empty story. Visually this was nice to look and there was not too much action and the action scenes were not as annoying than on two first movies of this serie.

Review written: 2024-03-30