The fourth film in the Capcom game influenced franchise is upon us with the series originator Paul W S Anderson returning to both script and direct his wife Milla Jovovich as the superhuman Alice in her quest take down the Umbrella corporation.
The army of clone Alice's march down into the Tokyo headquarters of Umbrella and enact slow motion, high flying, 3D captured vengeance on her creators and once that is out of the way Alice v1 can get back to tracking down the friends she parted with at the end of Extinction. This leads her back to LA and the mass zombie hordes trying to get into a maximum security prison where the last few stragglers are left scrounging out their "afterlife". The hope of rescue from a ship moored off the coast is all that keeps them going and it is not long before the evil finds it's way in and all he'l breaks loose.
Resident Evil Afterlife's 3D is spot on, further proof if needed that the James Cameron developed system is the way to go with digital 3D, bringing the good looking and permanent lip glossed ladies to life and blood splattering onto the front of your glasses. Enjoy each chest juggling gun recoil and rejoice in the pounding neo-Carpenter synth score from tomandandy. Anderson has had fun with this film mining his DVD collection to bring in scenes from The Matrix, Blade II, Alien, Doomsday, Die Hard, Escape From New York,The Book Of Eli, Silent Hill and steering the movie franchise in a totally different direction from the game series. It is mired with plot holes and series inconstancies but, and I am a little tired of justifying this, if you are paying money to see a Resident Evil movie without enjoying the first three and bringing expectations beyond your inner thirteen year olds sci-fi horror action hybrid wet dreams you've bought a ticket for the wrong show.
A good hard on.
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