Movie Review For Resident Evil: Retribution

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Sep 17th, 2012 in Action Adventure, Featured Articles, Horror, New Releases, Sci-Fi | 0 comments

Movie Review For Resident Evil: Retribution

Resident Evil: Retribution starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez came out in theatres last September 14th 2012. Directed and written by Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: Retribution gave a new story to the fans of the Resident Evil franchise. The quest of Alice to destroy Umbrella Corporation and to bring back life to this world continues on as she discovers more conspiracy to the virus and to why she is a huge part of it. So let’s take a look at how this movie was rated by a couple of the top critics of the movie word, Clark Collis and Nick Pinkerton:

“Resident Evil: Retribution – More Amazing Things To Expect

Writer-director W.S. Anderson’s overseeing of the Resident Evil zombie franchise has proven to be both lunatically haphazard and dementedly enthusiastic. Does the Brit auteur lie awake at night plotting out a Christopher Nolan-esque, multi-film character arc for Milla Jovovich’s undead-battling heroine Alice? Hey, maybe he does and maybe doesn’t. But he definitely spent time working out a reason why Jovovich — Anderson’s real-life wife — should spend the majority of this fifth film in the series kicking zombie butt while sporting an S&M-styled catsuit which makes the most of the actress’ derriere.

Truth be told, Jovovich’s outfit is one of the less ridiculous facets of the berserk, intermittently entertaining Resident Evil: Retribution. This time around we track Alice as she seeks to escape a vast, subterranean Umbrella Corporation testing facility in Kamchatka that features monsters aplenty, recreations of assorted capital cities, and clones of characters from the first movie (a plot point which conveniently allows the return of various actors from that film, including a double duty-doing Michelle Rodriguez). Why did Umbrella capture Alice in the first place? Why is former Umbrella chief Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) so desperate to remove her from the corporation’s clutches that he sends a band of commando-types half way around the world to rescue her? Indeed, given the planet has been overrun by hungry, tentacle-sporting zombies, why would anyone expend so much energy on a single person no matter how form-fitting her clothes? It’s tempting to say that Anderson is not really in the ”Why?”-answering business. But during the film’s final sequence the director explains all while also suggesting that the franchise’s nuttiest days are, remarkably, yet to come. B–”

The original article can be seen at Entertainment Weekly

Here’s another review for Resident Evil: Retribution written by Nick Pinkerton

“Resident Evil: Retribution, Evolving and Revolutionizing Jovovich

Most action filmmakers are lucky to generate as much sheer razzle-dazzle in the course of an entire movie as Paul W.S. Anderson gets into the first five minutes of Resident Evil: Retribution, running the opening set piece in voluptuous reverse slow-motion, with spent shell casings leaping back into pistols and shock troops slurped skyward by helicopters. The fifth entry in the Resident Evil franchise and the third directed by Anderson—one of the few filmmakers who makes 3-D worth the glasses rental fee—Retribution 3-D picks up where 2010’s Afterlife 3-D left off, with Milla Jovovich’s Alice in a pitched battle with the insidious Umbrella Corporation’s forces. Captured, Alice awakens in one of those underground compounds of which Anderson is hopelessly fond, a proving grounds test facility made up of “stages” through which she must escape by passing through a series of one-upping trapeze-act combat numbers toward a rendezvous point with allies.”

Read the rest at The Village Voice

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.