Resident Evil: Extinction
Reviewer: Tom Leins
Issue 101 March 2008
(4 votes, average: 5.75 out of 10)
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Who the fuck is Alice?
The Lowdown: After the ‘Raccoon City Incident’ in 2002, the T-Virus continues to spread, despite the nuclear destruction of the city. A now super-human Alice embarks on a trip across the scorched terrain of America, committed to vanquishing the zombie populace and waging war on the sinister Umbrella Corporation…
Review: For the third instalment of this inexplicably popular franchise, Milla Jovovich’s husband Paul W.S. Anderson has handed over the reigns to Russell Mulcahy (the director of cult classic Highlander, no less). In the early stages of the movie this seems like a wise move, as Mulcahy seems to inject a new sense of purpose into this decidedly stagnant franchise. Picking up where the previous outing left off, Resident Evil: Extinction bursts into life like an entertaining blend of Mad Max and Day of the Dead. The post-apocalyptic vibe is particularly well rendered, and you could be fooled into thinking you had a real treat on your hands. Unfortunately things don’t last and the movie is back on common ground before too long. Milla Jovovich still looks great and will be, for many, a key reason to invest time and money in this product.
With some imaginative kill-shots and a great sun-baked wilderness landscape, this movie certainly isn’t the waste of time it could have been. The extras are above average and consist of a decent audio commentary, a batch of watchable deleted scenes and a worthwhile four-part ‘making of…’ featurette. Fans of the first two movies will go wild for this high-octane slice of post-apocalyptic mayhem. Anyone who prefers their mindless action/horror hybrids a little less mindless is likely to lose interest before the film whizzes/wheezes to a close.
FILM: 5 EXTRAS: 6
DVD Info:
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 18th
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Oded Fehr
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy, 2007
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Visuals: 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 90 mins
Price: £19.99
Film supplied by: DnA
Special Features:
Scene Selection
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary With Director Russell Mulcahy, Writer/Producer Paul W.S. Anderson & Producer Jeremy Bolt
‘Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing Resident Evil: Extinction’ Four-Part Featurette
Resident Evil: Degeneration Sneak Peek
Trailers
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Great Movie. I love this woman!
June 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
More of the same really.
Once again lone wolf Alice teams up with a group of people trying to stop the zombie masses, the group slowly gets picked off one by one, and then it’s up to Alice to take down another human who has been super-humanly mutated thanks to a bite from one of the experimental zombie prototypes.
The setting is different, which is a plus, but the film still lacks any real bite