Last Saturday, after supper at Applebees, I went and vegetated in the movie theater to Resident Evil:Retribution. After watching the first four films the series I couldn't pass up the opportunity to again witness gruesome, blood thirsty zombies being killed by the Alice, the protagonist of the series. To my great pleasure and amazement, there was a multitude of zombies and ass kicking.
Alice begins the movie in captivity of the Red Queen, a computer who is in charge of the Umbrella Corporation. The whole movie is based on her escape efforts from the underground operation. She travels through four different Umbrella Corporation simulations: Suburbia, Russia, Tokyo, New York. Each simulation has its own version of zombie death which Alice overcomes.
Being that this film was the fifth in a widely popular series I was not expecting to be disappointed. But, after being pleased by the initial killing of zombies I slowly became dissatisfied with the film. First off, the film was only 90 minutes long! How can one only produce 90 minutes of zombie killing escape efforts? It seems like there were so many opportunities to expand on Alice's history and build on anticipation for the next film but, the director did not take this opportunity. Instead I wasted 90 minutes of my life watching Alice escape from captivity, knowing all along that she was clearly going to make it because if Alice dies, so does the whole series.
After leaving the theater I was left wishing that that film had given me more for my money. It is definitely a renter.
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