Resident Evil - Extinction (Widescreen Special Edition)

Resident Evil - Extinction (Widescreen Special Edition)
by Russell Mulcahy

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Actor: Ali Larter, Ashanti (II), Iain Glen, Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of Resident Evil - Extinction (Widescreen Special Edition)

DVD Review: Much Better The Third Time Around
Summary: 4 Stars

Fans and critics alike notice the Resident Evil films strong departure from the game series, but much in return a new flavorful yielding story plot to work with. While being bashed for not following true 'zombie' scenarios (Living Dead series), Resident Evil still holds up as a great adventurous adrenaline pumping scare.

After "Apocalypse" (the 2nd film of the set), we found that Alice (Milla Jovovich) the protagonist had received incredibly powerful telekinetic abilities. Her powers grew to a much larger extent, she is more powerful,intrepid, and willing than the last film. She's more or less a super hero at this point!

Unfortunately not even our 'super hero' could predict or prepare for what has happened to the world... the entire world. The Zombie transforming T-Virus has infected the world, becoming an epidemic, and vastly reshaping the land. What were once lively friendly locations are now dry deathly terrain. To make things worse, zombies make up the population! Five years have passed and Humans are becoming extinct, save for a few survivor groups. These groups hit the road in an attempt to seek salvation or to at least be able to greet the next day.Alice has become a lone wolf, hiding from Umbrella's satellite controlling probe that manipulates her as their very own weapon. She must remain incognito to avoid hurting any survivors. Days of peace have long come and gone.

While the hip LJ and combative Carlos return leading the convoys, characters such as Jill and Angela are absent. Absent too is any information of their departure, in real life actress Sienna Guillory (Jill) was working on the film adaptation of Eragon. I wont spoil what happened to them, just look it up online if you are curious. Claire Redfield comes into play as one of the convoy leaders, she is on the more serious side in contrast to the other leaders. She was often known in the games as a bold individual, and had an older brother Chris Redfield (wonder if he'll ever make an appearance?). The convoys have their team sniper, medic, electronic/radio junky, and soldier(s) to help provide for one another. The group is slowly dwindling, common day objects are becoming a rarity as they scrummage through the desolate towns.Avoiding big cities of large population at all cost, they ran dry all the small towns... Las Vegas may be their last hope, but it may cost them their lives.

Even the largest corporate industry in the world, the creators of the T-Virus, Umbrella are feeling the tremors of this. They have been forced underground into tunnel connecting facilities till it all blows over. Or till they can concoct a remedy for the virus. Leader Albert Wesker will not stop till the cure or an alternative is made. Sending his tyrannical (no pun intended for people who've already seen the movie) somewhat psychopathic partner Dr. Sam Issacs to deduce the situation.

Resident Evil: Extinction is a great horror/action flick, the visuals are top notch, the casting is great, and music is eerie as can be. The film though does suffer from unexplained events, a rushed ending (come on it's a short movie why not dose up/lengthen the ending!?), and a rather weak final 'battle'. Extinction is said to be the final Resident Evil film of the story ark, but after watching the ending how can one call that finished! Imagine reading a book that doesn't scream for a part two, it's necessary as it says "to be continued"...you get the idea. Overall a great buy, and nifty extras make this a sure good addition to ones collection. The picture quality must be mentioned a second time, it's phenomenal. Some effects on characters faces have been note as heavily air brushed, some wont mind. At the end of the day Extinction holds all the key elements to making a successfully entertaining flick.

DVD Review: RESIDENT EVIL: A Successful Mix of Genres
Summary: 3 Stars

In RESIDENT EVIL:EXTINCTION director Russell Mulcahy continues the same kind of breakneck pacing, lots of gore, and the strong acting of Milla Jovovich in this the third entry in the post apocalyptic series. The first two present a world run amuck as a plague of mutant DNA creates a never ending supply of zombies who seek only to devour the flesh of the living. Jovovich is Alice, a bio-engineered super-human female who has added telekenetic powers to her repetoire. She is fearless, preternaturally nimble, and handy with a variety of weapons ranging from firearms to machetes. Part of the interest in this series that distinguishes it from numerous competitors lies in Alice's repressing her more human more female weaker side. In several scenes you can see that she is torn with self-doubt and misgivings that she must sublimate.

In EXTINCTION, what has gone extinct is most of the human race. The virus that has been localized in the first two entries now has spread worldwide, turning most of the planet's plowable land into a barren wasteland. In scenes that are probably taken directly from MAD MAX, the nation's highways are limited to those normal humans who careen from place to place seeking fuel and shelter. But here there is no Mel Gibson to enforce whatever crumbling laws remain. There are the ubiquitous zombies and a scraggly few humans in a truck convoy who hope to go to Alaska via Las Vegas, hoping that the former gambling capital has sufficient fuel for them to get that far north.

In most zombie movies, the flesh-eaters are a homogeneous assortment of indistinguishable scar-faced lumps. Here, director Mulcahy adds some pretty macabre humor as the film's bad guy scientist tries to train a select few zombies as docile servants. In a scene that smacks of Bub the Zombie in DAY OF THE DEAD, this wicked scientist actually succeeds in teaching a grinning zombie into using a cell phone and taking a picture--at least at first.

With RESIDENT EVIL, the star is not only Milla Jovovich--although she is in nearly every scene--there are other lesser lights that insist that in the eternal battle between good and evil, it is not always clear which is which. The zombies at least have the excuse of the mutant virus. Those who trek with Alice or seek to intercept her must wonder on which side of the very fine line between good and evil on which they lie. In its slam bang action and surprisingly competent acting, RESIDENT EVIL suggests that this line may be as evanescent on the screen as it often is in real life.

DVD Review: "Raccoon City was just the beginning..."
Summary: 3 Stars

By the time the third instalment of the film adaptations of "Resident Evil" came about, I had stopped hoping that they were going to make the movies faithful to the games, and this probably saved me a lot a grief: "Extinction" is the least like any of the classic video game titles, and is generally a bit old-hat when it comes to what you can do with a zombie film...but, for the most part, it manages to be a decent action-adventure.

Set some time after its prequel, we find Alice (Milla Jovovich) traipsing an earth that has been devastated and turned to desert by the leaked T-Virus. She meets up with a convoy of survivors headed by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter, "Heroes") and returning pal Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr, "RE: Apocalypse"), and after heading off an attack by infected crows, they decide to make route for Alaska, where the infection supposedly hasn't spread yet. In the meantime, the heads of the Umbrella Corporation, hiding underground, seek Alice's blood in hopes of procuring a cure for the epidemic.

I must give credit where it's due: Milla Jovovich kicks butt. She alone is the best aspect of this film, and continues to hold the title of greatest female action hero by way of some nifty battle scenes (Alice vs. dogs, Alice vs. zombie horde, Alice vs. Tyrant, etc.). All of the action scenes are thoroughly exhilarating, with the scene where the crows attack being one of the most visually fun-to-watch spectacles I've recently seen.
In addition, the desert location works better than I thought it would, and the contrast involved in going from extreme brightness to underground darkness helps create necessary in the film's more edgy scenes.

However, when the fighting ceases, so does the fun, and we're left to try and comprehend some of the rather silly choices of the filmmakers: logic-defying bits like nobody noticing that L.J. (Mike Epps, "The Fighting Temptations") is infected and zombies able to be dropped by a slit throat are the backdrop to the completely aberrant notions of turning zombies domestic and Alice being psychokinetic. Also, the fact that the movie is almost nothing like any of the games continues to bother me: Claire and Wesker (now head of Umbrella) look nothing like their designs, Las Vegas is as alien to the series as Kathmandu, and the entire film feels more like something out of the "28 Days Later" franchise than "Resident Evil".

While "Extinction" remains a better-than-average game adaptation, it's a shame that not even the third time could be a charm when it comes to faithfulness. May the upcoming CGI attempt be the definitive one...

DVD Review: Mila Jovovich!
Summary: 5 Stars

Mila once again makes the bad guy zombies pay for their violent nature!
All of the resident eveil movies have been action packed and fun to watch.
5 star rating

DVD Review: Cool set of movies
Summary: 4 Stars

I think it's a good series of movies. Not really scary, but more sci-fi thriller, maybe. Great action, and of course Milla Jovovich is just hot!!

Description of Resident Evil - Extinction (Widescreen Special Edition)

The third installment in the massively popular film series based on Capcom's zombie horror/science fiction games, Resident Evil: Extinction brings the world to an end, not with a whimper but a bang, as Milla Jovovich's Alice pits her bio-organic superskills against armies of the undead in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. Also on hand is a more grown-up version of the games' Claire Redfield (played by Heroes' Ali Larter), who leads a convoy of humans (among them Resident Evil vets Oded Fehr and Mike Epps, who reprise their roles as Carlos and LJ, as well as newcomers Ashanti and Spencer Locke) in search of sanctuary; meanwhile, sinister Umbrella Corporation scientist Dr. Sam Isaacs (Iain Glen) seeks a cure for the zombie virus outbreak via Alice's blood, which he taps via a lab full of clones. Subtlety has never been the Resident Evil series' strong suit, but it's hard to argue against Extinction's breakneck pace and impressive CG special effects; director Russell Mulcahy (the Highlander series) lends a lot of verve to the proceedings, and the script by producer Paul W.S. Anderson pulls in agreeable touches from The Road Warrior and Day of the Dead. A hit during the summer of 2007, Extinction should please series devotees and action-horror fans alike; the DVD includes commentary by Mulcahy, Anderson, and co-producer Jeremy Bolt, as well as several making-of featurettes, and a glimpse at the next entry in the Resident Evil franchise, the CG-only Degeneration. -- Paul Gaita

Milla Jovovich is back to kill more zombies in the third chapter of the hit Resident Evil franchise! An action/horror film filled with huge special effects and edge-of-your-teat terror! Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice (Jovovich) joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.System Requirements:Run Time: 94 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/MONSTERS & MUTANTS Rating: R UPC: 043396190832 Manufacturer No: 19083

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