Execrable nonsense

Rating: 2/10 (13 May 2015)

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE is the fourth RESIDENT EVIL movie I've watched and by far the worst of the lot. It's an execrable piece of nonsense, possibly the nadir of Paul W. S. Anderson's career, and that's saying something given the amount of dross this guy has turned out. It's clear that the only idea behind this sequel was to make more money from a semi-successful brand, because there's an entire dearth of ideas and imagination.
Once again, the wooden and unlikeable Milla Jovovich plays Alice, a dull cartoon character who goes around shooting zombies in the head and performing various wirework-assisted stunts. The story is very slight, involving her teaming up with a group of survivors trying to get to safety, but when they find themselves trapped inside a building under siege it's predictable zombie film time. Things get sillier and sillier until the ridiculous climax, which has to be seen to be believed.
Everything's poor about this film: the writing, the acting, the lunk-headed characters, that dialogue. The CGI effects are noticeably cheap-looking, and I'm glad I didn't see this in 3D as the effects looked poor too. Half the film seems to be ripped off from other stuff: those PREDATOR-mouthed monsters from BLADE 2, that giant axe-swinging guy from SILENT HILL. Needless to say this is a waste of time, even worse than the previous instalments.