Low expectations meant no disappointment...

Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2008)

I waited for the DVD... I liked the first two, regardless of the deviation from the games. I didn't get deep into the games so I didn't really care. But once I read the synopsis for RE:E I wasn't drawn in at all. Regardless of what I just said about not caring over the deviation, this is so far off from the game franchise... but spends plenty of time borrowing elements and themes from other films (Road Warrior, Mad Max, The Birds, the original George A Romero films and many more). It has a complete lack of originality.
Frankly, Alice is the only "developed" character in this film. And by developed I mean, she basically is just shown with incredibly ridiculous new powers since we last saw her in RE:A. The telekinesis was kind of cool, but ummm the whole zapping the computer chip in the satellite? I don't think there is words to describe my thoughts of that. And (to borrow from another post's observation) she goes from super human to android... I mean wow, now they can suddenly shut her down? So yea there is character development... that just happened without us seeing. The other characters are pretty much plain and unimportant... I wasn't disappointed with any deaths. Given this lack of development, a lot of time was wasted focusing the film on these people.
I understand the need to get a cure, though it was for purposes of greed so umbrella employees can return to the surface. But seriously, I just didn't care about all those Alice clones.
I just watched it about 20 minutes ago... so I could easily go on, but I really need to restrain myself.