At least it's improved from the third...

Rating: 4/10 (12 September 2010)

So after the third film I walked into the theatre at my friend's request with no expectations. It was an endless barrage of violence and it lacks the charm I've found in the games, but it has improved solidly from Extinction which made me wish I could have crawled in a hole and hid. Jovovich clearly lacks talent, either to act or choose roles and films I can't decide, she does well for the part though as a void feminine character to kick ass, because let's face it the movie does kick ass. The characters are clichéd, but the effects are decent and the film does manage to keep you entertained if you shut your brain off and involves more than a bunch of crows and that awful Las Vegas attack scene of the third and Alice (FINALLY) loses those crazy powers that made the third film completely irritating to me. The only thing that bugs me about the franchise aside from that it WON'T die is that Resident Evil has so much potential to be a movie... eerie mansions, genetic mutations, the whole meticulously detailed past of the Umbrella Corporation, it's practically a formula for success... so keep trying Jovovich and crew... maybe you'll get it right someday.