Resident Evil: Afterlife

Rating: 6.5/10

Film Class: B

Genre: Action

Before Resident Evil: Afterlife, all the resident evil sequels defied convention... because unlike most sequels which rarely top the first in its series, Resident Evil just got better and better. That was before Afterlife came out that is. Personally, I didn't like the first 2 installments. The 3rd was pretty good, surprisingly, and for the forth and newest installment, sadly it was pretty disappointing.

Alice, supposedly "invincible" because she had managed to effectively control the T-virus inside of her, turned more human in this movie. After turning up at the safe haven Acardian and finding no one but Claire Redfield, she was about to give up all hope of finding survivors when she came across a group of survivors stranded on top of an abandoned prison. Not sure if it was a pun intended, but Wentworth Miller is once again "imprisoned" momentarily in this movie.

I didn't like the graphics at all, even though they claimed in their movie trailer that it was based on new technology (no idea what it is but I thought what it was publicising was more of making the first ever live-action video-game movie in 3D). CG looked faked, and the slow-mo matrix style of filming was anything but cool. Perhaps the greatest disappointment for all Resident Evil fans out there was how Chris Redfield was portrayed. There was absolutely zero hype about him... no credit made to him, he didn't even have his own action scene. All of this despite him being one of the most "outstanding" characters in Resident Evil. Even Jill Valentine was out of the picture (cant' remember where she disappeared to).

This installment plays a pivotal role in the Resident Evil franchise because it steers the RE series away from the horror genre and more towards the action genre. And guess what, there's an enormous cliffhanger at the end of the movie... Will definitely be watching part 5 in the near future, but it's not so much of interest anymore, more of "completion's" sake. Sure hope the director will up the standards for the next sequel to please the dismayed Resident Evil fans out there.