Day Of The Dead + Alien Resurrection = Rubbish. (plot detail and spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (12 October 2007)

Paul WS Anderson made the pretty good Event Horizon. He made Alien v Predator movie, which despite it's flaws I enjoyed. However, he's written all 3 Resident Evil movies and sadly none of them are written that well, and sadly none are any good.
The plot, involving Alice joining up with a group of survivors after the virus has wiped out almost the entire planet, leaving a planet full of undead. Meanwhile, scientists from the Umberlla Coporation are trying to find a way of wiping out the virus, or even control the undead to use as a workforce. Or something... I kind of lost the threads at some point.
The thing that strikes you while watching this movie is that you find a mental checklist of other movies running through your head:
A military base surrounded by zombies? Day Of The Dead. A series of clones based on Alice? Alien Resurrection. A post-apocalyptic setting? Mad Max series.
And the list goes on....
The actors do their best but frankly the script doesn't help and with a story so disjointed it's almost like a bunch of movies thrown together to see what sits!!
Russell Mulcahy, who directed Highlander (a personal fav), does his best to keep proceedings going along at a fast pace. He stages the action when it happens very well, especially during the Las Vegas battle, but even here he's let down by inconsistencies, when the zombies, which up till this point have been of the slow moving variety suddenly develop a burst of speed a-la the Dawn Of The Dead remake! If this was explained somewhere in the movie, I certainly missed it.
The climax, which takes place in the military lab doesn't really excite, and worst of all, even though it suggests that Alice might be able to create a cure for the virus and possibly save the world the ending suggests she's going for revenge on the virus creators, with an ARMY OF CLONES!!!!! I'll let you guess which movie that idea comes from.....
Course this means they'll probably be a Resident Evil 4 movie. I really hope not.