Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Resident Evil - Extinction (6)

I don't think that there is rash of zombie movies, it's just my bad luck in seeing this straight after the awful Planet Terror. But even though the plot is almost unimaginatively come, this was a mildly enjoyable way to wile away a few hours. It's a 6 (it was fine because it has some winning style).

Some world covering virus is converting everyone to zombies, a small of survives drifts from city and are saved from an attack of zombie crows by the Alice (the stunning Milla Jovovich). So far, nothing original. In Mad Max style, they cruise the desert looking for a save haven eventually discover the mad scientists lair, who has turned himself into the uber-zombie. he has also been making clones of Alice to develope zombie medicines to turn them into an army. Needless to say ... well, it's needless to that Alice that the mad scientist battle it out at then end so I wont say it.

So there is nothing original in the plot. But it was full of action, had some great photography (boots stood out) and some pretty neat special effects - like the desert taking back Las Vegas. This film is actually the third in the series so seeing 1 and 2 would have probably helped me in understanding some of the things that were going on.

However the most amazing thing about the zombie virus, was that it mostly seemed to leave alive only very gorgeous women! Interesting that.

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