If you’re a “Resident Evil” fan and have grown increasingly more frustrated with the live-action films that may as well be subtitled “Milla Jovovich Rockz!!!” some welcome relief has come with “Resident Evil: Damnation,” which is easily the best cinematic installment of the series and despite being a computer generated film, features better acting and a more faithful spin on one of the most successful video games franchises ever. More
Review: Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
May 15, 2013
Action/Adventure, Animated, Science Fiction Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong, Milla Jovovich, Bingbing Li, Resident Evil: Damnation, Resident Evil: Degeneration, Matthew Mercer 2 Comments
New on Blu-Ray/DVD for Dec. 18, 2012
December 17, 2012
New on DVD/Blu-Ray Ada Wong, Amy Adams, Anna Kendrick, Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake, Leon Kennedy, Li Bing Bing, Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Pitch Perfect, Resident Evil: Retribution, Trouble with the Curve, video game series 3 Comments
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Quaid (Colin Farrell) gets caught.
Total Recall – This needless remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film thankfully bombed at the box office further damaging Colin Farrell’s credibility as a box office draw. It wasn’t his fault though. Hollywood execs continue to ignore the fact that sometimes people don’t want their “cult classics” messed with for remakes no matter how much technology has advanced since the original. More
Review: Resident Evil: Retribution
October 6, 2012
Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller Ada Wong, Barry Burton, Bingbing Li, Boris Kodjoe, constantin film, davis films, Jill Valentine, Leon Kennedy, Michelle Rodriguez, Milla Jovovich, Paul W.S. Anderson, resident evil franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution, Sienna Guillory, Video games, zombies 3 Comments
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Alice (Milla Jovovich) admires her work in “RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION.”
If you’re not already a fan of the “Resident Evil” franchise, there’s nothing in “Resident Evil: Retribution” that should or would change your mind.
But for those of us who know what we’re in for with the series, the fifth installment is for better or worse, more of the same — albeit with the familiar levels of ridiculousness from its maddeningly inconsistent Director/Writer Paul W.S. Anderson. More
Review: Resident Evil: Afterlife
September 19, 2012
Action/Adventure, Movie Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Ali Larter, Boris Kodjoe, Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield, gaming, Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Extinction, Wentworth Miller 1 Comment
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Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), Chris Redfield (Wenthworth Miller) and Alice (Milla Jovovich) prepare for battle in Screen Gems’ action horror “RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE.”
The “Resident Evil” franchise has never claimed to be high-concept, brainy material. It’s a series about zombies so you really have to go in not expecting too much. The franchise consistently delivered for action fans even if it appeared to be losing some of its bite.
The third installment, “Resident Evil: Extinction,” had all the makings of a franchise ender with a weak premise, weak villain, only one truly memorable fight scene and a terrible decision to make the main character, Alice (Milla Jovovich), a zombie fighting superhero effectively eliminating any type of suspense. But every so often, a franchise regains its footing by simply going back to what worked in the first place. More
Film Flashback: Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
September 12, 2012
Film Flashbacks Ali Larter, Capcom, Claire Redfield, Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: Extinction Leave a comment
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[From left] K-Mart (Spencer Locke), Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), Alice (Milla Jovovich) and Carlos (Oded Fehr) look at gravesites.
Of course, considering this is the third installment of a franchise based off a video game about a virus that turns people into zombies, the fact that it reached two sequels is pretty impressive by itself. Not that it excuses it from being a joyless, bore of a movie. [2012 FF: I just re-watched this over the weekend and it's definitely not that bad. Of the four released so far, it's the worst of the bunch, but that's more due to "Super-Alice" than anything else.] More
