Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray]

Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray]
by Russell Mulcahy

Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Ali Larter, Ashanti, Iain Glen, Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Brand: BR
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Producer: Héctor López
Producer: Jeremy Bolt
Producer: Kelly Van Horn
Producer: Martin Moszkowicz
Producer: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
Published: 2008-01-01
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-01-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product features:

Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Anamorphic; Color; Dolby; Subtitled; Widescreen

Blu-ray Reviews of Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray Review: Just like zombies, this franchise just won't die!
Summary: 2 Stars

In Resident Evil: Extinction, the zombie-creating T-Virus has infected most of the planet, transforming it into a barren wasteland inhabited by the walking dead. Okay, we're already running into problems here. No virus, however mutagenic it may be, can alter the world's topography and weather patterns. Sure, now that the sole desire of 99.99999% of the people on earth is to devour flesh and sinew, there's no one around to keep greenery down or water dams functional, so there's bound to be decay within the structures of civilization. But there's no way a zombie virus can turn the entire continental United States into an arrid desert! So already, we're at an implausible start to this movie.

Our superpowered heroine, Alice, wanders this wasteland, trying to regain control of the abilities the evil Umbrella Corporation has imbued her with that are now going on the fritz. She comes across a convoy of survivors led by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter of the television series Heroes), yet another protagonist from the video games these films are allegedly based on. Carlos Oliviera (Oded Fehr) and walking stereotype LJ (Mike Epps) are also among the convoy's members, and there's an uneasy reunion between them and Alice since she had abandoned them to protect them from her flaky powers. Believing that frigid Alaska is the only place on the planet untouched by the T-Virus (but if the T-Virus can illogically affect land masses and weather, what is the likelihood that cold climates can keep the virus at bay?), our little band of Road Warriors is heading north and would love to have Alice come along to help them get there.

As Shakespeare said "Aye, there's the rub" (and this is probably the only moment you will ever find someone make an association with this franchise and anything Bard-related). We now know why the T-Virus can turn North America into a desert - to simply serve the filmmakers' desire to rip off yet another superior genre movie. If the first Resident Evil was a shameless ripoff of The Matrix and Resident Evil: Apocalypse was a shameless ripoff of Escape from New York, then Resident Evil: Extinction is a shameless ripoff of The Road Warrior. Now it makes sense!

Meanwhile in another plotline that yet again shamelessly steals from another film (this time, Romero's Day of the Dead), the remnants of Umbrella's U.S. branch seek to make the zombies smarter, and they succeed to an extent. Their zombie specimens can now run, but have become even more vicious and brutal. I guess with the "slow zombie vs. fast zombie" debate still raging among the geek masses and fast zombies appearing in the form of the "Crimson Heads" in the remade Resident Evil game, the filmmakers were feeling the pressure to include running zombies in their film.

Umbrella also seeks to clone Alice. If they can't control the supersoldier they created, then why not make a reasonable facsimile, right? And boy howdy, do they pump them out, putting each clone through a rigorous obstacle course based on Alice's trials and tribulations as seen in the previous films. Even the mirrored hallway with the many body-slicing lasers makes a return, so they've clearly ran out of ideas to steal from other films and have just decided to reuse gimmicks from the earlier films which they had already stolen from other films. Why, it's like looking into a mirrored hallway! I doubt the filmmakers even see the symbolism there.

So Alice and our wannebe Mad Maxes head for the Great White North, encountering Umbrella's cadre of zombified Usain Bolts in the sandy ruins of Las Vegas. But like just about everything Umbrella does, the Speedy Gon-zombies fail and the convoy heads for Alaska, but not before Alice can break away from them to settle her vendetta with Umbrella once and for all. Or not, since a fourth, 3D-ified Resident Evil film is only a month away from wide release as of the writing of this review.

Resident Evil: Extinction is an improvement over the frame-dropping piece of molasses that was Resident Evil: Apocalypse, but that really isn't saying much. I guess director Russell Mulcahy of Highlander fame can be credited for preventing this film from being another complete disaster, but the absurd scriptwriting by Paul WS Anderson doesn't make it easy on Mulcahy. As a huge fan of the video games, this film was another monumental disappointment, as the franchise and its helmers still seems unconcerned with making frightening, atmospheric zombie films and choose to fall back on more bankable formula of insanely big guns and Milla Jovovich's action figure status and baffling sex appeal (personally, I think she looks too tomboyish, lacking more feminine curvatures).

The gamers and fans of good films in general are begging: REBOOT THIS FRANCHISE ALREADY!

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Description of Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray]

Synopsis: MILLA JOVOVICH,ALI LARTER,ASHANTI
Item Type: Unknown Type
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 01/01/08
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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