What I expected it to be.

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 2007)

Ms. Jovovich is sensational in this part and really shows her chops as an action/adventure actress. Mr. Fehr and Ms. Larter are also very good in their roles, most of the other actors are scenery except Mr. Glen who is over the top at times, perhaps through no fault of his own.
The movie starts out fine with Alice moving through the waste lands of what was the U.S.. We meet the main characters and learn more about Project Alice and what has become of the world due to the Umbrella corps efforts. The film misses out with its lack of tension, the set up feels all wrong here. Sure there are many Zombies and battles, bad guys at Umbrella Corp. out to get our dear Alice, which propels her into action.
Good guy Olivera (Fehr) sacrifices himself for the better good and Claire(Larter) flies off with the other escapees, in an Umbrella Corps. helicopter from one of their secret bases, thanks to Alice. After Dr. Issacs (Glen) is bitten by a Zombie, of his own creation, while trying to escape Alices wrath, he takes too much anti-Virus and mutates. Alice vs. the Mutant II doesn't end like in the last film.
That's pretty much the whole film. Not too much important dialogue here and though there are other characters, including children, they are not developed at all.
Oh yes, Alice now seems to have links to her clones (from Project Alice), can levitate objects and create force fields (I wish I had gone further in the games).
I like the fact that the director brings us into the film at a certain point of the story and removes us at another point regardless of continuation of plot. Some may think that this is a way to hype us for part IV, but open ended film is a great way to stimulate the audience minds.
I went to the early show today to avoid the children, but too bad for me the theater was crowded with the little darlings. I guess this will be a hit and I hope so, I like to know what happens next. I do wonder how all these children got into the theater on a school day here in NYC.