Resident Evil 4 - Afterlife (2010)Un-swallowable crap in your face.
I know this day would come. We all know it. we have all seen a money making cow being milked to beef jerkies before. But when it actually happens I am still feeling strongly about, err, the money and time I lost. Watching "Resident Evil: Afterlife" is so far the most regrettable cinema experience I have had this year; it is so bad that I kept walking out and in pretending to have toilet break, just to avoid having an aneurism outburst.
I had very little expectation to this movie in particular; I was a fan to RE the game as 1,2,3, for its dark atmosphere and hopeless zombie theme. It didn’t really get to extend to the movie that much after the first movie – the movie serious is largely a fancy action flick where this unknown character, Alice, being an experimental product and superhero, jumping around using weapons and then superpower to kill zombies. Around RE3 they try to rub back some in-game characters to attract the game lovers, but ultimately the movie is a monster of its own; you watch pretty chicks, being Milla and others, running and shooting.
That can’t be too bad, right?
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Here we are… yet again. Because somehow we can’t shake it once we step on it we are getting another “Resident Evil.” The first one was decent in the mediocre sense, but it was obviously a fluke since every one after that was a step lower and lower. If they screwed up the Nemesis project they can’t be expected to do anything worth crap after that.
When this trailer plays you say, “there’s a fancy ‘Blade’ rip off,” “there’s yet another ‘Matrix’ inspired dribble,” and “there’s another crappy film.” The one thing you never find yourself saying is, “there’s a cool zombie movie,” or “there’s a zombie movie,” period. Where the hell are the zombies? There is one shot of our heroine running away from a group of zombies, but after that we get ninja stars, jumping, kicking, some Blade/Stephen Dorff wannabe and some giant creature guy swinging some crap around.
