Nothing Too Amazing But You Get Your Money in 3D

Rating: 6/10 (19 September 2010)

Okay, you all probably know the scenario now as Alice battles the undead and the Umbrella Corporation on a wasted post apocalypse earth. It starts out with a massive amount of CGI as Alice and clones storm the Tokyo HQ of U.C. The gals cut down swarms of Japanese guards with throwing stars, samurai swords, machine guns, bombs etc, all in state of the art CGI and 3 D with lot's of Matrix ripoff thrown in.
Then the head honcho of U.C., Albert Wexler, all T-virused out with red eyes, shoots Alice up with the cure with a hypo in her neck, so Alice becomes human again in his VTOL escape plane. She thanks him for that, just before the plane crashes into the side of a mountain, you'd think they would have a better autopilot than that. That crash was frozen in space as everything inside the fuselage continued forward ala Newton's Law, but since Alice is now human, one would think she would have been crushed and burned, along with super Wexler.
But in the next scene she is piloting a single engine plane over Alaska, no mean feat crossing the Pacific non stop, looking for Arcadia, the promised land from the last movie. No dice, instead of the promised land, she finds a runway full of empty planes and some doped up crazed Claire Redfield, almost a zombie due to some creepy mechanical spider full of some drug attached to her chest. So after Claire is subdued, they are back in that little plane, which seems to have unlimited range. and flying south to good old LA, which anyone would guess is the nexus of disaster as in every end of the world movie ever made. They land on top of an urban high rise prison full of various survivors in a daring rooftop, gravity & reality defying landing where they meet some fellow survivors.
Okay, Arcadia is not a town, it is a ship, some huge cargo one, which happens to be in L.A. harbor but there is a horde of zombies separating the "prisoners" from "safety" I won't go on too much more except to say there is the usual stunts and laws of Physics defying tricks by Alice & Claire. Even though supposedly Alice lost all her super abilities, you'd never guess by her endless super stunts. Or her matched sawed off double barrel shotguns that she loads coins, bigger than the bore, to make them super guns.
You get pretty much a bunch of cool special effects, the usual twists and characters you'd expect as well as an ending left open for the sequel. No one is expecting a masterpiece or great acting and dialog, but if gives you what you expect and more if you are familiar with the last 3.