Reviews

I'll be honest, I went to see this knowing it wouldn't be great. The 3D looked awesome, and I was excited to see Wesker. What I wasn't expecting was a dull, pointless, plot less, horribly-acted cornball "action" movie.

Milla has worn out her welcome as a poor-man's Angelina Jolie. I love her, I really do, she's one of my favorite actresses, but this has gone too far. That said...

Without trying to spoil anything, it seems that Paul Anderson had no idea where to go with this sequel, thus throwing everything out from the last film, (I wont go into detail), while shoving small things from the video game in, just to fill time and justify the 'Resident Evil' title. It falls flat, and leaves many of the scenes feeling unneeded and forced.

My MAIN grudge against RE:A is the lack of plot. I do like to see a good mindless action/horror film (Machete and Piranha are on my top 10 list already!), but this film took itself way too seriously, and forgot where the hell it was going at times. Taking a look back at the movie, it seemed like nothing happened throughout the whole 96 minutes! The action scenes, in my opinion, were lame, tame, dull, overdone, and the slow-motion wasn't impressing anyone. It came off, once again, as forced and corny.

I'm a fan of the RE videogames and do nitpick, but at the same time, I've taken the movies for what they are. The first film was great, second meh, third bad, but this one was downright horrible. I'm really not sure I saw the same movie as most of the reviewers here, because what I saw was a flashy, dull, pointless entry in an already dead series. Time to give it a rest Paul.

Resident Evil: Afterlife gets a 3/10 *'s

Paul Anderson needs to be stopped. These movies have gotten out of hand, and are getting worse with each one.

The first "Resident Evil" was a good movie. It could be approached as a sequel to the game series, and really had an eerie video-game vibe. "Apocalypse" could have been so good, following "Resident Evil: Nemesis", but Paul Anderson completely screwed it up.

Resident Evil: Extinction is awful. Milla Jovovich is getting horribly tired and the "badass superhero chick" thing is so cliché and stupid it makes you roll your eyes.

It takes place mostly in a desert, as the survivors of the T-Virus head to Alaska, for some stupid reasons, and in the process FIGHT ZOMBIES! Nothing too intelligent for the audience here. The "gore" is upped a bit, but it's still extremely tame and only somebody who hasn't been exposed to real violence would be disturbed by it.

The film easily could have been called something else, as it has NOTHING to do with Resident Evil at all, except for character NAMES, Umbrella Corp. and the T-Virus. Claire Redfield makes her first appearance on film, played by...Ali Larter? Yes, a bad actress who doesn't come close at all to resembling the Claire from the RE games. Blonde hair, badass attitude, stupid dialogue, everything that Claire was not. Wesker also makes an appearance, for about 2 minutes, once again ONLY carrying the name Albert Wesker, not resembling the character whatsoever.

There are numerous pointless and drug out scenes, an example being the scene at the beginning where **Minor spoilers** a gang of inbred rednecks attack Alice and force to fight some creatures or something?? Stupid, unneeded scene, only there to show how freakin' badass Alice can be.

Paul A. only used the RE name to cash in on his cheap, straight-to-DVD scripts and obviously it's working. I don't know how in the hell this pile of crap gets anything over a 5.0 rating, as it's barely an average movie. The only reason I give it a 4 is because Oded Fehr is great, and seeing the Tyrant, if only for a while and to have him horribly, lazily killed off, on film was a treat.

Watch out for the awful, eye-rolling inducing ending to this junk. Reall, only see this if you're just following the series. If you're a TRUE Resident Evil fan, avoid this at all costs..

Resident Evil: Extinction gets a generous 4/10

I first witnessed Ruggero Deodato's 'Cannibal Holocaust' about 5 years ago, so I was probably about 14 or 15. At that age, I was just getting into Mondo/Exploitation/Sexploitation/Sleaze/Gore/Giallo, the list goes on, 70s and 80s gore films. This was among the first few, along with Nekromantik and such.

The film is almost 30 years old, and if you're a youngin I doubt you'll appreciate it much, although I'm 19 at the moment of this review, and I've loved it since the macabre day I laid eyes on it.

The film has a unique and very eerie premise: A group of young folk who are well known for their controversial documentaries (The very disturbing clip from 'The Last Road to Hell')set out on a journey to what's referred to as the "Green Inferno" to study cannibal tribes in the wild. The group don't return months later, and soon a rescue team is sent out to find them.

Among the team is Professor Harold Monroe, Mr. Chaco Losojos, and a guide to help them through the Green Inferno. What they come to realize is that the cannibals are, at first, very hostile, but are soon friendly in a way, and only to discover during their journey a horrific and disturbing display of human and animal cruelty.

Most of the movie after their discovery is "lost footage" of Alan Yates, his girlfriend Faye, cameraman Jack Anders, and their guide Felipe in a world of mayhem and horror.

The film is extremely real (most of the time) and pretty disgusting and graphic. Rape scenes are not of the norm, the violence is gory and horrific, and there are several animals, REAL animals, that are butchered through the course of the film.

What's haunting, to me at least, is the end of the film, the last ten minutes of footage seen through the lens from Alan and the crew. It's horribly real and lingers in the back of your mind, and it took me a while to shake it off.

The message is quite simple: Who are the real savages? The cannibals trying to live peacefully among other tribes in the wilderness, minding their own? Or the civilized, "smart" city folk of today, who are scared of change and the different? You make that judgment yourself.

This grueling, horrifying and gruesome masterpiece gets a 9/10. Watch at your own risk

...and is the last good one in the whole 'Halloween' franchise. Ignore the haters and stay away from the critics as their bias' lean toward the Halloween films before it. This movie is great! The plot completely strays away from the first two films, and gives the series a breath of fresh air, as well as the 80s horror fad. There's no mindless, masked stalker randomly killing people, there aren't any naked teenagers running around having sex, walking backwards into the dark, and checking the basement to turn the lights back on.

The movie isn't a masterpiece whatsoever, but it's much more intelligent that most 80s slasher films. The main characters are adults (mostly), Tom Atkins portraying alcoholic Dr. Challis, Stacey Nelkin as Nellie Grimbridge, and Dan O'Herlihy as the villain, Conal Cochran.

Very briefly, the plot revolves around a man who is murdered by a strange man in a suit after being checked into the hospital gripping a Silver Shamrock novelties Halloween mask. Dr. Challis seems to find interest in the man's daughter, Ellie, and the two trace the steps of her father back to Santa Mira, New Mexico. It leads them to the Silver Shamrock factory, where he had picked up an order of masks for his store. I won't give anything away passed that...

Unlike the previous Halloween installment, this movie's violence is a bit more bizarre and gruesome. The deaths aren't bloody, but sickening and strange. I did see this at the age of 11 and the deaths have stayed with me, so that may be why I'm so disturbed by them, but the violence steers away from the random killings, and hack n'slash of the other Halloween movies.

A final note: The movie involves much more of the actual Halloween theme, not just the title. If you haven't seen it at all, give the movie a chance and give it your own opinion, don't just go by everyone else's. The below 4.0 rating is ridiculous.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch gets a 7/10 Rated R: Bizarre violence/gore and language