This post will mark the first time that I will put my evil thoughts into reviewing movies. In my crappy reviews, there will be numerous references to parts of the movie, and thus, you are advised to skip my BS if you actually plan to watch the movie. Why is that so? You are almost guaranteed to watch the movie in a completely different light !
The first victim for my sadistic review is the movie based on a video game, Resident Evil (3) : Extinction. While most game based movies are a load of crap, this zombie flick is actually very nice to watch. While the 28 days/weeks later series took a more serious approach to zombies, Resident Evil takes the action-chick-kickass approach. It does help when the female lead is played by Milla Jovovich as Alice. The director did know his job well. There were plenty of scenes with her naked, scenes showing off her tummy and legs while ignoring her obviously flat chest.
Her character in Ultraviolet was simply a serial killer with a strange dose of motherly instinct but in the Resident Evil series, she became a serial zombie and human killer.
So what's new in this installment ? Every new zombie movie always introduces something new. This time round, we have ...
- Zombie crows (Zombie dogs aren't new anymore)
- Intelligent zombies, who can run, climb and have increased strength
- Super zombie with regenerating powers, telekinesis powers and extended reach (Tyrant)
- Human survivors who preys on other survivors
- Zombies don't really need to eat, it's just an instinct (WTF?!)
- The T-Virus can somehow dry up the earth, turning it into a desert
- You can install a camera in a human and watch it as a satellite feed in high quality and frame rate (imagine the naughty applications of this technology!)
Apparently, jumping is a very important move in the movie. Alice and her clones jumped out of trouble so many times over in the movie that it's better than running or shooting.
Obviously, Milla Jovovich isn't a cheap actress to employ. And to get her to sign her up for the 3rd installment of a successful franchise must have really stretched the movie budget to its limits. How do I tell ? The Umbrella's US massive underground desert base is mostly represented in the form of wire frame models and in the scene where Alice cuddles up her newly released clone, the director couldn't find enough budget for a full CGI Alice and had to resort to using the classic camera trick that shows each Alice's face turn by turn. Only when the two Alices are separated, you can see both Alices' faces which can be accomplished by overlapping scenes, another all time favorite director's trick.
There was also a incredible scene where Claire Redfield drove a oil tanker into a whole load of zombies, ignite some dynamites, a cigarette and blew himself in true martyrdom fashion (also known as suicide bomber in most parts of the world). The oil tanker exploded with a big fireball and soon, I realised that it was physically impossible to do so. Just a few scenes ago, Chase was telling everyone that they had only enough fuel in the tanker to drive a hundred miles, which is hardly enough fuel to start a campfire. So I concluded that the aging oil tanker is made of C4 explosives.
At the start of the movie, I was wondering very hard how the Umbrella guys could bare to let so many Alice clones die without doing the manly THING. Hey ! This is a world where most people had turned into zombies, females are in seriously short supply, and babes are very hard to pass up indeed. Are they all gays? In the entire movie, I didn't remember seeing any female members of the Umbrella.
Add a evil twist to the movie logic to their cloning capabilities, it would have been even better ! You see, Umbrella can clone humans. Alice's genetic information can potentially give a cure because her blood can bond with the T-Virus, so hence I can deduce that her off springs will have a 50-50 chance of having immunity too right ? So with so many Alice clones, Umbrella could have started a "reproduction line", and have fun doing it !!!
Ok, that didn't happen of course. Alice was last showed releasing her own personal massive clone army from the cloning facility, showing that not only Darth Vader or Emperor Palpatine could lead a clone army.
It's a great movie to catch, and it probably earned it's NC18 rating from Millia Jovovich's semi naked scenes than the gore from the dying humans and zombies combined. It will probably undergo plenty of cuts before it arrived in DVD and blueray formats, so watch it on the silver screen before it's gone.
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