Lesser than the first but much improved over the second.

Rating: 6/10 (10 February 2008)

Milla is back, and thanks to tight wife-beaters and airbrushing, is cuter than ever. Fans of the game hate these movies along with everyone else who has good taste but I don't have good taste and I'm not a fan of the video games so I could care less and I loved the first Resident Evil. The second was vile with a poor plot and terrible direction, jumping from action scene to action scene with little thought given to plot or character development. The third I'm happy to say is a significant improvement and nearly as entertaining as the first. I do wish that Alice had died just so we could stop the Alice is super weapon silliness that started in Apocalypse. What I would really like to see is a RE zombie movie about surviving the zombies and not about ten kinds of other foolishness like clones, satellites, and mutating bad guys. I mean what was the point of introducing the plot line of trekking to Alaska when everyone dies two minutes later and the idea is moot, unless they were planting the idea for a sequel.
Ali Larter is also cute in the movie and does a good job as Claire Redfield. She played a good balance of leader and bad ass without coming off as bitchy like Sienna Guillory did playing Jill Valentine. Of course I haven't played the game so maybe Jill V is a bitch, I don't know. I won't go into the 'controversy' about whether Ali looks like the video game character because I think that's silly. What I will go into is that Ali seemed like a random addition to the movie, almost tacked on as an after thought. Her character certainly wasn't needed and didn't play any significant part in the plot. Again, I can only guess that maybe she was introduced with the hope she might play in a sequel.
If you are a hardcore Milla fan or liked the first or second Resident Evil then give this one a go, you might enjoy it. If you hated the first two then I don't see anything here for you.