Ah the resident evil movies. The first was good, the second was better, the third, ah yes the third, there are not words that drip enough venom in the english language that can describe just how awful it is.
Had the wonderful Paul Anderson, not gotten his hands on yet another game to movie flop, this might have had serious potential. The zombie move genre is a cliche, predictable, laughable movie genre these days. Resident evil with its game ties and fairly reliable plot (RE 1-3 at least) could have been used to make an epic on screen adaption.
But no, we were treated to the visual failure that was RE - Extinction, where the idea of a zombie infestation was taken to laughable extremes with a world over run and a hapless group of travelling idiots struggling to survive, falling to the usual movie deaths that arise more from stupidity rather than genuine creative merit.
Unanswered questions, shameless name dropping, plot holes you could hide everest in and an ending so terrible, i swear I was wiping spittle off my monitor.
I believe the tag line was something involving alice "bringing a few friends" or some attempt at wit. The clones we saw were useless cannon fodder, hardly worth being intimidated over, the villain of the piece, wasnt he hiding in an asian country? Just how is alice planning on crossing that big old ocean.
It seems to be the preference of every zombie movie, to present itself in a manner where it cannot be taken seriously in any facet of its creation. Id rather a movie take itself to seriously than not at all. Yes the idea of zombies is a difficult concept to take seriously thanks it history of tongue in arse adaptions before, but could we not have tried?
My personal copy of RE 3 on dvd, is actually free to anyone who wants it, mint condition, only watched once, I have actually offered this to people, no strings attached and you would not believe the number of people who have turned me down.
