I believe this movie concludes the year of the trilogy. I cannot remember a year that had this many third installments. Some were amazing (Spiderman 3 and Bourne) one was very good (Oceans 13) and a few were just awful (Rush Hour 3 and Pirates). I was basically a fan of the first two Resident Evil movies. I didn't love them but I liked them. They both suffered from terrible climaxes but I could forgive those because there was something about them that entertained me. I thought the trailer for the new one made it look fun, fast and entertaining and I get to see some movies for free, so what the hell right?
I am not going to rehash what has happened previously in the series, but Alice (The sexy Milla Jovovich) is still living in a world populated by the undead and she is still on the run from the Umbrella Corporation, the company that released the virus on the world. We also re-meet Carlos(Oded Fehr of the Mummy Returns) and L.J (comedian Mike Epps) as they survived the second movie and show up with a group of human survivors, led by Claire (Ali Larter, Heroes). Doctor crazy man Isaccs is working on a cure, or so we think. He is actually finding a way to make the zombies more aggressive because he needs super zombies to catch Alice. Alice has the possible cure in her blood because she has been infected with the virus but instead of it taking her over, it fused with her, or something. Oh and Alice has now received super powers, somehow and she has turned into Jean Grae. Alice and the rest of the gang meet up at some point and Alice thinks they should head out to Alaska because she found a random diary of a dead guy who claimed Alaska was free from zombies. On their trail they run into more zombies, crows who are all amped up on the flesh of the undead and of course, the super zombies. After most of the crew of humans die, Alice finds the head quarters of Dr. Crazy man and wants to end it once and for all. I guess I should mention that the umbrella corporation has been cloning Alice in hopes to find a cure and each one gets put through a test and when they fail and die, they toss them in a ditch. Alice finds the ditch, freaks out but keeps her cool. She runs into the child brain program, kind of like in the first one. She is told Dr. Crazy man has been bit by a zombie but shot himself up full of the anti-virus thingy and is now some kind of super human/zombie/octopus/unkillable nonsense thingy. They fight, the end, sort of.
I wish I could say this was a good movie, but it really is not, at all. Well that maybe a bit harsh because there are some fairly good moments, especially during the first 35 minutes or so. The first action sequence involving Milla and those pesky undead dogs is cool as she uses electrical cords as weapons and the scene with the killer crows works until Milla does her Jean Grae thing. It leads to a cool looking shot, although it was given away in the trailer. Also the big battle with all the amped up undead has some cool stunts and a lot of gunfire, which is usually pretty cool. As always, Milla Jovovich looks incredibly sexy holding two guns or two giant blades, so that does not disappoint either. However, the story makes no sense, as things like Alice's super powers basically go unexplained and everything unfolds in to predictable a fashion. Things like that don't matter when the movie is so much fun that you can forget logic, but this movie doesn't do enough to warrant putting logic aside. The non ending annoyed the crap out of me as it means that we will most likely have to have another one of these movies and I will watch it because I want to know if it will ever actually end. We never find out what happens to Ali Larter and the rest of the surviving humans. The effects of Dr. Isaacs do not look all that good and his tentacle things are laughable. There is a side plot involving the bigger Umbrella corporation and every time we see that it is funny because the lead guy is wearing sunglasses for no apparent reason. It is the little things like that that add up and make this movie, well suck.
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