anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Afterlife is the sequel to 2007's Resident Evil: Extinction. Resident Evil: Afterlife is the fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise and is a follow-up to Resident Evil: Extinction. Alice discovers the laboratory containing clones and she is now in-control of her new powers. Alice begins with an attack on Albert Wesker's Umbrella Corporation headquarters.Like the past two movies, Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the story makes excuses to have its action sequences. The movie also backpedals on its own continuity by removing its own plot developments. Resident Evil: Afterlife removes all of the Alice clones and her superpowers after an enthralling opening sequence. The clone and superpower arc is now irrelevant after the opening sequence.This is not the only story mishap and the story tries to re-use elements from previous movies. Alice finds a group of survivors in a tower. She leads these survivors into a place that is promising sanctuary called Arcadia. This is obviously a lie as everything is owned by The Umbrella Corporation somehow. Even after a zombie apocalypse and bio-weapons roam the world, the Umbrella Corporation is able to still construct new buildings and ships. They are also able to maintain a loyal workforce that does not care about the atrocities they commit.Even the ending sequence of arriving at Arcadia and dealing with Albert Wesker is laughable. The movie is hoping that the would care but they do not. It is hard to care about the story when the movie opens by removing events from the previous movies.Besides the story, the rest of the movie is solid. The action sequences are still fun to watch. Although Alice does not have much character it is still fun to see the stunts that she does. The action scenes are competently shot and edited. The strangeness of some of the scenes however stem from the three dimensional requirement. It felt that because the movie had 3D in mind, some scenes were shot differently and I could tell immediately that these scenes felt different.Fans of the video game may not enjoy this movie if they are expecting a movie based on the video game series. Like Resident Evil: Extinction, this movie uses the same visual style of the monsters and nothing else.Overall, Resident Evil: Afterlife can be a fun action movie to watch. It does not need prior knowledge of the series because of the poor writing.

celestialbaby23 Action scenes were amazing, cast was great. A little slow here and there but very briefly. All together a GREAT series of movies!

Eric Stevenson This was about as mediocre as I thought it would be. It's nothing to write home about. Well, I guess it is something to write a review about. Anyway, this chapter features the characters finding a new place free from zombies. There's little plot besides that. That's probably the film's biggest fault. It doesn't have much of a story other than them going to a place where people are supposedly safe. I guess the action scenes aren't bad. The main problem with this is the slow motion. I think it's probably the fault of the 3D people, but there are many times where it just isn't done well.I also kind of blame the 3D for having bad CGI. This is why Roger Ebert was opposed to this sort of thing! I having seen the last two movies but am not a fan of either these movies or the actual video games to really get invested to want to see them all. Besides, there's too many to list by now. They're supposedly over, I believe. I guess if you just want mindless zombie stuff, this is the movie for you. I know a tad bit about the games and from what I know, this is in fact pretty faithful. Other entries are at least slightly better. **

Eric_Cubed Paul W.S. Anderson, we know him, we love him, we worship him. He is the eye behind Death Race,Alien Vs. Predator and Pandorum. He is the human entity responsible for the Resident Evil franchise. Part one was great, and part 3 was the supremely painted masterpiece. And dudes, let's just admit it, we love, love love Milla Jovovich. And if we are honest with ourselves, this is why we compulsively pay 12.50 at the theater whenever another crappy Resident Evil chop-shop sequel comes out. We love her buns, her rack, her model-like features, her deep sexy confidence and her barely restrained libido. I speak the truth, and this truth was well known by the producers and even Milla herself. Moving forward with this truth we are now in a position to criticize the most recent addition, which is truly an atrocious aberration of movie making. Just stick with parts 1 and 3, which I give ten stars easily.