somnolent strip-slaying with Milla Jovovich

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2002)

Most remarkably, a counter-gradient atones for the relatively banal plot of ever more devastating and insurmountable enemies getting their due: starting out with a smashing red negligee, Milla Jovovich manages to lose apparel with each new adversary (zombies surpassed by skinned watch-dogs surpassed by even more terrible zombies topped by "the licker" who will surely reappear as Alien V soon), till finally she is about to encounter "the nameless" wrapped in little less than a measly kitchen-towel, offering her the welcome opportunity to repeat her celebrated appearance as Leeloo in Besson's abysmal "Fifth Element": Applying the mathematics of horror to our expectations, a genetically modified dinosaur, long dead and carnivorous now, is the least we want to see her stalked by next, vested in but little else than the shotgun she grabbed before she took to the deserted streets...