Resident Evil: Extinction

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2011)

After the disastrous previous sequel I was expecting this third film based on the popular video games to be just as bad, but I was actually reasonably surprised at how it had improved a bit more. Basically Raccon City is where the T-Virus first broke out, but it has spread rapidly that now the entire world is infected with few survivors up against the living dead people. A few years have passed, and bio-organic superhuman Alice (Milla Jovovich) is on her own fighting against the threat from both these creatures and the Umbrella Corporation that created the virus. Despite knowing that she can tracked and wanted back at the Corporation, led by sinister Albert Wesker (Jason O'Mara) and evil head researcher Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen), Alice is determined to find a way to bring them down. She winds up with a gang of survivors fighting their way through the hordes of infected undead, with members including Carlos Olivera (The Mummy's Oded Fehr), Claire (Ali Larter), L.J. (Mike Epps), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and nurse Betty (Ashanti). When the overhear a radio broadcast by someone claiming that Alaska is decontaminated and virus free, they all make their way through the now Nevada Desert sand covered Las Vegas ruins. They are up against not just the flesh eating zombies, but also killer crows, and of course the forces of the Corporation, who do manage to control the newly developed Alice, and also capture her in attempt to steal vital DNA. We did see it earlier, but Alice was unaware that her original DNA had been cloned into many dozens of copies in order to perfect a replica to find a cure for the virus. In the end, after suffering a zombie bite, the evil doctor dies from his monstrous transformation, and leaving her friends to go to Alaska without her, Alice is seen in the room with at least one hundred copies of herself. Also starring Matthew Marsden as Slater and Christopher Egan as Mikey. With obvious and inspired homages to Mad Max, Planet of the Apes, The Birds, some kung fu movies and some spaghetti westerns, Jovovich and new addition Larter are good heroines, the outdoor scenes are improved with sunlight, and the special effects are better, all in all, not a bad science-fiction action horror sequel. Okay!