It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise takes Alice (Milla Jovovich) across the Pacific to Japan and what is believed to be the last Umbrella corp. underground lair. We soon learn that Alice is not alone but taking on the underground lair with help of all of her clones toting samurai swords and ninja stars. She takes out this group but loses several of herself in the process. She is also injected with a weird serum that reduces all of her superpowers making her a normal human again.After stopping in Tokyo, Alice flies back to Alaska in search of her friends. She doesn't find a haven but is reunited with Claire (Ali Larter) who has no memory of what happened. They fly back down the West coast where they meet a group of survivors holed up in a prison. This group includes Bennett (Kim Coates), Luther (Boris Kodjoe), and the imprisoned Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller). This group ekes out survival but when a new mutated form of zombie with a split open tongue burrow through the walls, the team has to escape. A giant monster with a hammer also starts knocking on the gate hurrying the evacuation.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

We all think enough is enough at some point, and now that is the general feeling around Resident Evil. I know I know, why it couldn't have ended after one movie but to be fair it stuck to itself and did what it wanted to do, sure the movies are terribly written and directed but, well OK that isn't acceptable at all. This was a series that had room to improve, all it had to do was make it less bat-s*** crazy and try to make it feel more personal and less obsessed with stupid things when all it had to do was make it alright. The man, who produces, writes and directs this is Paul W.S Anderson who is now for me nearly at a point of no return, where even if he makes something good, this will be on his back forever. Now maybe my introduction seems a little harsh I mean after all this is what it says on the tin, big action, more zombies than seen before and an actual kind of interesting plot(emphasising kind of). We see Alice searching and looking for the place where survivors may be, she flies around everywhere in this plane and even lands it in impossible places. The plot is hard not to ruin because straight away it jumps right into it and that I can respect, but my main problem is not with the plot, it's with the technical decisions. Anderson manages to blast out this movie that's scenes are chosen horribly, it feels Anderson somehow destroys his own script and after it is all over you just feel some opportunities were missed. A problem I have always felt with this franchise is that it goes too big scale, it can't settle for street to street zombie fighting with normal guns and never feels like the characters do what actual people would do in that crazy situation. It builds Umbrella as this corporation that just has too much money, I mean it builds huge underground complexes which seem to figure in every movie and make it even more insane. The villain of this movie is just so badly created that it just seems stupid to have made that character, the person just seems to be straight from the video game which this uses too much from, and then the movie feels OTT. Can Resident Evil ever get any better is the question on my lips, on this it cannot and this is the first one so far I have actually found bad and not just another poor movie. It doesn't try and that is what I can't respect, it's not like this movie isn't worth a watch but it certainly isn't one I would recommend to many, fans of the series maybe and I know people who love action movies will also enjoy it, but even some will find this an overuse of special effects and one movie that ruins this series even more so.So Resident Evil marches on earning money from a very disappointing attempt and I feel there is a lot of this kind of thing left to come in the future. Whether Anderson feels this is going somewhere is really a hard thing to work out, it rakes in money but critically they are smashed, it's like a moral film question, do you keep on making bad movies if a lot of people don't like them?, my answer is actually to keep on going, but improve your craft and don't keep going at the same old stuff that you've been doing for years.

After the evil things Umbrella did to Alice and other people back in the first three films, she's back for vengeance in "Resident Evil: Afterlife"! The 3D is excellent. I very regret about watching this only on DVD. I guess some directors don't maximize 3D, and I'm happy Paul WS Anderson did very well for this film. The opening credits are dark, gloomy, and mysterious. Fight scenes are kickass with guns, samurai swords, throwing stars, and other weapons. The T-virus abominations evolve, as with the Majini zombies and the Axeman. Slow-motion may be generic, but this film revolutionizes it. Alice finds new survivors in Los Angeles, and Chris Redfield is the main course here. Also, I guess the film relies on location. First, in underground Raccoon, second is overland Raccoon, third is the Nevada Desert, and the fourth has more than one: Tokyo, Alaska, and Los Angeles. The plot twists are very good and beyond predictions. Jump scares are present, especially which they are intensified in 3D. I should have watched this in 3D theater!

Paul W.S. Anderson, we know him, we love him, we worship him. He is the eye behind Death Race,Alien Vs. Predator and Pandorum. He is the human entity responsible for the Resident Evil franchise. Part one was great, and part 3 was the supremely painted masterpiece. And dudes, let's just admit it, we love, love love Milla Jovovich. And if we are honest with ourselves, this is why we compulsively pay 12.50 at the theater whenever another crappy Resident Evil chop-shop sequel comes out. We love her buns, her rack, her model-like features, her deep sexy confidence and her barely restrained libido. I speak the truth, and this truth was well known by the producers and even Milla herself. Moving forward with this truth we are now in a position to criticize the most recent addition, which is truly an atrocious aberration of movie making. Just stick with parts 1 and 3, which I give ten stars easily.