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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Director: Russell Mulcahy

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From Time Out London

The final part of the videogame-derived ‘Resident Evil’ trilogy is the least boring. Faint praise, perhaps, but one must be grateful for small mercies. Based on a script by series creator Paul WS Anderson, Australian director Russell Mulcahy’s post-apocalyptic movie owes much to countryman George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’ movies. The corpse-regenerating T-Virus, which in the last instalment escaped from the Umbrella Corporation’s underground laboratory to infect the whole of Raccoon City, has now spread across the entire United States. Superhuman Alice (Milla Jovovich) – a beautiful but rebellious by-product of the corporation’s search for an antidote – joins a convoy of vehicles driven by a ragtag band of human survivors. The crazed Dr Isaacs (Iain Glen) keeps an eye on them, using the corporation’s all-seeing satellite surveillance system, as they roam the Nevada desert and sand-swept Las Vegas streets in search of food, water and fuel. Until Alice decides it’s time to settle the score with her mad-scientist creator once and for all.
The plot is every bit as episodic and nonsensical as before, but ‘Extinction’ ups the ante by introducing some new and/or improved adversaries: a murder of mutant crows, who prefer live flesh to carrion; a new breed of killer dogs; ‘Super Undead’ zombies that are more fleet of foot; and a squidgy, tentacled monster called The Tyrant. Amid the choreographed fights, loud explosions and CG creatures, there are some new and old faces. But the scariest visage is that of Alice, whose flawless, airbrushed complexion is either a throwback to Mulcahy’s New Romantic pop promos or something dictated by Jovovich’s L’Oréal contract.

Author: Nigel Floyd

Time Out London Issue 1938: October 10-16 2007

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dan said...

Posted on Nov 02 2007 17:18 I thought this film was good not excellent but atleast referred to sum off the resident evil character eg. carlos (res 3) It was by far better than the first and probably better than the second as well an ok trilogy but should have made the first 2 a lot better .

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Gemma said...

Posted on Nov 02 2007 13:39 Great film! Much better than I was expecting.

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DoubleHelix said...

Posted on Nov 01 2007 17:13 Not the best of the Trilogy, very good though.
Well made, watch the first and second or you won't understand it

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kelly said...

Posted on Oct 28 2007 22:02 this film is really really good i would go and watch it again

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ed said...

Posted on Oct 28 2007 13:35 poor

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ed roberts said...

Posted on Oct 28 2007 13:34 the lamest of the trilogy yet! but it was pretty poor to begin with, although the first one was one of those "so crap it's good" films...
The zomibe crows was a very novel idea...
but please let this be the last one....
and please no more Zombie movies.... 28 WEEKS LATER was teh best modern take, so let's leave it at that....

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James said...

Posted on Oct 27 2007 20:42 To conclude: This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin

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James said...

Posted on Oct 27 2007 20:41 Did I mention that: This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin?

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James said...

Posted on Oct 27 2007 20:40 Further to this it must be acknowledged that: This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin

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James said...

Posted on Oct 27 2007 20:39 I would also like to add that: This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin

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James said...

Posted on Oct 27 2007 20:38 This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin

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Stevo said...

Posted on Oct 26 2007 15:11 Not bad but not brilliant, not as good as the other 2 but some good scenes, Idea was good but could have been a much better movie.

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max91 said...

Posted on Oct 25 2007 22:06 pesonally thought it was better than 2nd film a few awesome scenes e.g crows bit of a shaky story plot as its not really focused on zombies, more on alices crazy new powers but still a generally awesome film

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Jamie said...

Posted on Oct 23 2007 11:28 Script so wooden it was like Resident Evil meets Mad Max meets Thunderbirds. Its a hard thing to please gamers and zombie fans alike...somehow I don't think this managed either which is pretty crazy considering zombie films are actually allowed to be bad. Visually it didn't work for me either. Milla's air-brushed close ups were rather distracting and the gore was nothing special. The CGI was crap...at times the zombie crows looked more like claymation than something actually derived from an edgey computer game.

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James K said...

Posted on Oct 22 2007 18:48 This film was terrible, compared to the others it was even worse. The storyline was awful and the ending was to open and quick. Would not buy the film out of a 50p bargain bin

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