Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Resident Evil: Extinction

As we started watching the latest entry in the Resident Evil franchise, I realized that despite having seen the previous films, I had virtually no memory of them.

It is appropriate then, that a little over a week after watching, I have little memory of the latest entry. Milla Jovovich is once again pitted against the remnants of the evil corporation that genetically engineered her (or did they only clone her?) and in the process she runs into the kids from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, who, now grown up are travelling across America in a convoy, searching out gas and food from each broken town.

In the meantime there are a few battles with zombie crows and zombie humans, and Ashanti dies (the film isn't all bad) until the final confrontation with the corporations lead scientist who decides to try his latest experiment out on himself, turning himself into a super zombie.

Neither Milla nor we the audience ever make it to Tomorrow-morrow land, but things are set up nicely for another sequel that I'm sure I'll see but not remember.

Overall pain score: 5 out of 10.

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