The First Resident Evil Story In The Desert.

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2014)

You might want to hunt me down, but I do enjoy this one because it does try new things. This is the first time a "Resident Evil" story is set in the desert, which is something I have been waiting to see. For the most part they do very well, but there's not really that much screen time in Vegas which disappointed me when it was the focus of marketing.
Milla Jovovich gives the final performance of Alice I enjoyed as everything beyond this became awful. I really did not care for these new telekinetic abilities she's gained, and the character is now running on nothing more than fumes. Oded Fehr and Mike Epps pleasantly return. Ali Larter is introduced offering good supporting cast material and, I was really happy with Jason O'Mara's brief appearance as Albert Wesker. But a little peeved that this was his only shot at the role (Shawn Roberts is hysterically awful with what he has to work with later).
For as horrible as this film really is. I do enjoy how it tries to take advantage of its setting, and how it's finally willing to take chances by showing things not seen in a zombie movie yet. But still that's not saying much, and if they had shown just a little more of it this would be the best in the series (This is still before those horrendous 3-D outings).
Final Verdict: Fairly decent when reminiscing, but still could've and should've been way better. 5/10.