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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 41
Another predictable entry in the Resident Evil franchise that seems to get more cynical and lazy with each film.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10
Another predictable entry in the Resident Evil franchise that seems to get more cynical and lazy with each film.
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The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York,
Sep 14, 2012 Wide
Dec 21, 2012
$42.3M
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The script is incoherent and the acting is terrible -- avatars would have been an improvement.
Thuddingly awful.
Some sequels suggest that no one involved with a franchise really cares anymore.
A zombie plague may have laid waste the world, but apparently supplies of black leather unitards have yet to be exhausted.
During the film's final sequence the director explains all while also suggesting that the franchise's nuttiest days are, remarkably, yet to come.
Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ... attempts to fill out a flimsy plot structure by making the characters' comings and goings overly convoluted.
The dopey video game adaptation series continues to chug along, providing consistently invigorating action that covers up a threadbare plot and nonsensical dialogue.
It's a funny thing about Jovovich as Alice: she gives the character just enough personality, but not enough to break the somber apocalyptic mood.
The Resident Evil films are not everyone's bag, although they seem to be evolving into their own brand of hyper-stylized cheese, made more extreme with each outing.
"Retribution" has actually got some very decent action and 3D effects. The story is still razor-thin. But, by the end of it all, I was ready for the next sequel, the presumed finale.
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
You can put as much gloss on top of the shaky foundations and wooden acting as possible but as soon becomes apparent - you can't varnish a turd.
If you liked the other Resident Evil films, you'll like this, and the end suggests there'll be plenty more.
The ending threatens yet more. Let's hope the fates intervene and put Paul and Milla in divorce court before then.
More than ever, forgoes real attempts at character and story for lots of repetitive zombie skirmishes.
Resident Evil: Retribution is style-over-substance in every possible definition of the concept.
Even noisier, more incoherent, and more like watching someone play a shooter-style video game than its predecessors.
While the last movie felt clean and more character-focused, this one seems a good deal lazier, both in the writing and directing departments.
'Regurgitation' might be a more appropriate subtitle for this redundant fifth go-round...
Containing almost no story, Resident Evil: Retribution shows the series' video-game origin more than ever.
Nobody goes to a Resident Evil movie expecting a classic but this fifth entry in the series is just plain cruddy.
Milla Jovovich is still a great action heroine, but the movie is just more of the same old stuff.
Uwe Boll gets most of the scorn, but has anyone done more to destroy hope of a decent movie being made from a video game than Paul W.S. Anderson?
It takes a while for the film to start being bad.
A mildly entertaining piece of eye-candy.
Dreary,loud and uber-violent but, having grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, there's no stopping this franchise.
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