Episode 192: Resident Evil Extinction

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And onto resident evil extinction, part 3 of the franchise that we are working our way through. We will watch the movies, then Welcome to Racoon City the reboot and the Netflix show. But before that, this is the 3rd movie on the bounce and it admittedly my favourite, and think that is because it is no longer hamstrung by being tied to the games, and therefore has to play to the audience of gamers. It can just be a movie

It opens as the first movie does with Alice in the shower waking up after the EMP wiped her and James Purefoys memory. However this is not Alice it is one of many clones created by the evil Dr Issacs. Which is a good thing as she ends up getting killed, but only after the res dress boots, photo, and laser corridor of the first movie, along with a lot of her clone sisters. What a waste of a good Alice. Nasty ditch full of alices.

This is an umbrella lab under a tiny shack in the middle of the Mojave desert, surrounded by zombies in the thousands.

So the t-virus got out, and took out the world. It is no longer limited to Racoon City. Within weeks the USA is gone, within months the world. And lakes rivers and seas dried out… which is cool for this movie, but in the later ones, the ones with the planes and aircraft carrier etc it is a fertile looking green Canada.
I like this one, it is brain candy along the lines of Paul Bettany's Priest and Carl Urban's Dredd. It is a fun movie, but it doesn't need to be a Resident Evil movie as we end up with super telekenetic Alice. It is now removed from the games, and this is, as Michael says, part of an Alice v Wesker and Umbrella, as it the rest of the Milla Jovovic series.
6.5/10 as it is a fun apocalyptic jaunt in the desert.