Aside from plot holes and IMPROBABILITIES AS BIG AS THE EARTH, It Was Fun

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2010)

The Bad: When I say improbabilities, I mean improbabilities. There's a part about fifteen minutes in when Alice and Wesker crash a plane headfirst into a mountain and minutes later she walks out of the wreckage mildly burned with a limp. Now, Wesker has powers now so I can accept him surviving. She's human. If you can buy that, the sky's the limit. Other problems include Wentworth Miller, who was doing his best Christian Bale impression the whole time and the guy who played Wesker was pretty bad, too. I could see that guy being a memorable villain, but it was kind of ruined by the performance and an anticlimactic, but cool looking, end fight.
The Good: This series is very much one of those that, while it is very different to the game, they are still fun movies. For that, I put this series up with some of the better video game movies that we have, not that that's saying much. I mean, look what it's going up against. And for those of you who want these things to be more faithful to the games, this is the most faithful one so far. The action scenes, while indeed stealing heavily in some parts, are really fun and the rest of the acting isn't as bad as it could have been. I've read some reviews where the critic was bothered by the sudden and unexplained appearance of the Executioner/Axe Man. This is different from the video games and previous movies how? It's the Resident Evil movie. You kill these bosses and you just move on from there. I don't want a whole back story on a guy who only appears for about fifteen-twenty minutes.
Now, if you like the other three films, go ahead and see this one. If you didn't, I don't even know why you're reading this review because this most certainly is not going to redeem it.
8/10