Reviews

For some reason, I never saw this movie. I've seen Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, both really humorous and entertaining. I've seen both several times. I can name several things off hand that I loved about those movies. I can't name anything about this one. Only things I liked were Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike. That's it. Nobody else did anything much for me and the plot if you can call it one was not engaging and was stretched out too far. The movie was lacking in much of the humor that made it's 2 predecessors shine. I failed to find much that was funny in TWE. The shoestring plot of a grown man finally deciding to complete some trivial beer drinking game years later with his estranged friends seemed extremely forced, like Edgar Wright was treating this as more of a contractual obligation he wished to get over with so he could finally have a Cornetto Trilogy. It all reeks of a director who lost passion in the project he initially was enthusiastic to do. The second half with the robots was truly awful. It was so ridiculous and nonsensical and the effects looked B movie level poor. The ending was even worse. What a waste of the 4 good cast members they had managed to get from a dismal selection of forgettable actors and a terrible third entry. I recommend never watching this movie. It's extremely disappointing. Just stick to the first 2 movies and skip this one. It's essentially The Godfather 3 of the Cornetto Trilogy. I'm likely to never watch this again. It did nothing for me.

Man was this a bad movie! It did have probably the most entertaining action scenes of all the RE movies and some amusing lines and situations but it fails to give any reason for you to watch it with it's completely pointless and improbable plot. It has enough plot for 10-15 minutes but it runs for almost 1 hour and 40 minutes, meaning it grows tedious very quick. This may have been easier to overlook if they cast a better lead actor with enough screen presence, charm and charisma to play the role like Halle Berry, Asia Argento or Carrie Ann-Moss. But instead, again it's Milla Jovovich and her awful wooden acting and lack of screen presence and charisma. She should've been a side character but of course she had to be the main star because she's Paul Anderson's wife. She's definitely the worst part of the movies, as she grates on your patience fairly quick for aforementioned reasons. In any half decent director took on the project, she would've either been a side character or not cast at all.

Anyway, the other thing that lets this movie down, other than having zero to do with the games other than a couple elements and characters, is the plot. It boils down to"Alice is captured on the Arcadia from Apocalypse and is brought to Umbrella's underwater training facility under the former USSR submarine pens. She must escape with the help of Albert Wesker, Ada Wong and some other familiar game characters. They shoot their way through and along the way they discover clones used to run simulations of the T Virus ravaging certain cities to sell to the countries enemies to use it against the country who had a simulation ran. IE China would use it against Japan, The US against Russia, North Korea against South Korea and vice versa. After meandering around the different cities, the remaining group escapes and they are greeted by Jill who has been controlled with one of those scarab things from Resident Evil 5 by the Umbrella Corp. The group fight her and also evil Rain and the group wins although they lose Luther. They are then shown at the White House greeted by Albert Wesker who then returns Alice's powers back to her. As if that made any difference. They then view the war between humans and monsters on the top of the WH. End of movie) The plot is awful and renders the whole experience pointless. It barely works as a guilty pleasure because Milla Jovovich is a charisma black hole who is a detriment to every scene she's in. Casting a better main lead would've helped alleviate this problem. There are some relatively plot light, action heavy flicks that are helped by casting either the right main lead(Daniel Craig, Sean Connery) or they hire a really solid cast for the secondary leads(Carrie Ann-Moss And Lawrence Fishburne) to compensate for a less skilled main actor. This film features neither. Even the best of the secondary main leads like the actor that plays Luther West or Oded Fehr can't save this movie. Everyone is almost as bad as Milla. Although it could also be the poor script to blame as that is usually the cause of bad acting or it's possibly the bad direction by Paul Anderson.

Just skip this movie and watch a better action movie like The Matrix or the Daniel Craig 007 movies or watch a better horror film like 28 Days Later or Dawn Of The Dead. These horror films have action and it's done far better and it works with the storyline rather than serving as filler for a weak script. For a more horror oriented approach, try The Grudge or The Shining. Far better than this movie or any of the other Anderson RE movies.