Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

4/10

Starring

Milla Jovovich
Michelle Rodriguez
Kevin Durand
Sienna Guillory

Directed by Paul W. S Anderson

Another Resident Evil movie? That is what a friend said.

The whole Alice thing and new creatures to wipe out with eye-pleasing stunts is starting to get very old, not to add boring.

This is the fifth instalment in this film series and the third to be directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, who also wrote the movie. It features various cast from the old movies like Sienna Guillory (Jill Valentine), Boris Kodjoe (Luther West), and Michelle Rodriguez, who played Rain Ocampo in the first film.

Retribution also brings back the Red Queen from the first Resident Evil, but her must-kill attitude makes you wish someone would just put a sock in it. The thing is, if you want to enjoy this movie, leave your brains at home. And if you're like some (eg me) who finds it impossible to do so, then strap in for a gunfight, hand-to-hand combat, all for apparently no reason.

The high note in this film will be Alice. I never get to have enough of Milla Jovovich’s portrayal of the character, she seems to have engulfed it and gives a performance that is always good enough, and the movie stunts regarding her character are fun to see, but as I said it gets repetitive.

The movie’s story sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) captured by the Umbrella Corporation. She now has to escape from an underwater base in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus.

Rodriguez and Guillory were very much on par with Jovovich’s acting, and the fight scene between Guillory (Jill) and Jovovich (Alice) was too long. It was said to have involved more than 200 moves. Directing is nowhere near perfection. The sad thing is, a sixth movie is also being planned.

The slow motion and Matrix effects were overused and not necessary in some scenes. Other slacks were in the pacing, there were scenes that took too long, and conversations that I felt could have been shortened.

Anderson and Jovovich also worked together in the movie The Three Musketeers (2011), which was a reimagination of the book and it was just dreadful in comparison to this movie.

I do not fully recommend this movie, because I fear the movie does not meet the mark to be classified as fun or watchable. But if like me, you like to see Jovovich take on bad guys and with daring stunts, then you can go see this, just leave your brain at home.