Friday 5 October 2012

Gerry Barnaby's Film Review: Resident Evil 5: Retribution

Genre: Action Horror Sci-Fi.  contains strong bloody violent scene & strong horror/strong language

Cert: 18 cert

Story:  The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Likes : Well I'm a big fan of the resident evil films & games but this film to be honest was a little weird from the start of the film your left wondering what the hell is going & why is wesker played by Shawn Roberts helping Alice reprise the role by Milla Jovovich who plays two parts in this film one a hard ass zombie killer the other a house wife with a young deaf girl Becky played by Aryana Engineer is a clone.It started off weird because you find Alice is confronted by a old friend Jill Valentine who is played by the gorgeous Sienna Guillory you see that her character is acting odd as if she being controlled,which you find out when you meet the beautiful Ada Wong a top operative agent to wesker played by the gorgeous bingbing Li which she looked stunning in that red dress she was wearing, her character was one of the type of agents that has a plan for everything & can get out of any situation she in.But what i found weird was why was wesker helping her, it made me think through out the film what was he up to, then you realise that the red queen has taken over,which has that whole concept of the enemy of an enemy is my friend feel to it which brought a mystery to whats was going one.The other thing that was puzzling was Carlos played Oded Fehr & rain Michelle Rodriguez both died in other films yet there in this one, i through OK what going on here then you realize again that their clones Iver to be used a people for the b.o.w (bio-organic weapon) or operatives for umbrella. Boris Kodjoe reprises his role as the former basket ball player Luther West who managed to survive in the 4Th film who teams up with a highly train rescue team, if you remember one of the names in the team from the first resident evil game he betrayed Chris red field to wesker over family & money,he character name is Barry Burton played by Kevin Durand who was pretty funny in this film. Leon S. Kennedy played by Johann Urb who really looks like him as well i don't think they gave him enough credit in this film, Leon in the games & cgi film show him as a bad ass lone wolf type soldier where in this resident evil film you didn't really get to see him much in action because it was mainly focused on Alice which i did notice.One good thing about this film is that it did explain the third film better when the whole world got infected, it showed why where country brought the virus released it then other country brought it & realised it as well it was like a a chain reaction that destroyed the world.It was clear that it wasn't just the t-virus realised i the world it clear from the size of the axe men & the massive size of the lickers that the c-virus, g-virus, Las Plagas parasite virus & the Uroboros virus have also been released, it seems the because of the massive size of the lickers they seem to have a nesting that they cocoon people which is Iver food or making more lickers like themselves.All in all this wasn't bad with the ending meaning that the films are not over yet.you can see clear with this film they've added a few elements to from the games as well.


Dislike: Only one question to be honest which not a lot of people have asked about which was kind a bit of a failure in the film what the hell happened to Claire & Chris red field that was on board the boat when umbrella attacked them, they weren't mentioned once through out the film.The other thing as well why did Alice only get her powers back at the end of the film that was a little lazy in the storyline by the writers,which they should of been given back when she was in the base.


Overall : Not a bad film to watch, there is a lot of mixed reviews by people you Iver love it or not,to me it wasn't the best resident evil film,it felt a little lazy in the storyline,but its not a bad film.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for zombie theme/licker concept design in looks , 8 out of 10 for entertainment


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