RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Alliance, 2010) D: Paul W.S. Anderson, w/ Milla Jovovich, Shawn Roberts. Rating: NNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNN
Even in 2-D, Resident Evil: Afterlife is a fun ride, but this really should have been brought to DVD in 3-D, where director Paul W.S. Anderson’s love of flinging stuff in your face and plunging you into vertiginous depths really shines.
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Genetically enhanced Alice (Milla Jovovich) opens the movie with a spectacular assault on the Tokyo headquarters of the evil Umbrella Corp. (They launched the zombie apocalypse.) Then she joins a group of survivors holed up in a prison. They’re looking for Arcadia, whose radio broadcasts promise shelter and safety.
Not every actor can play a convincing action hero, but Jovovich does it with focused intensity in her movements and her mastery of deadpan dialogue.
Anderson provides a solid, nuts-and-bolts commentary.
EXTRAS Commentary, cast doc, action doc. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
