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Movie Review - RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 

6/23/2014

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I enjoy the RESIDENT EVIL movies. In fact one of my girl crushes is totally Milla Jovovitch because of the movie. The first couple of movies were fun and the zombies were interesting. I understand that these are based on video games, and in most of the movies anyone watching can see how the video games and the movies are related. However, after seeing this one I wasn't sure if I liked this one, and when I watched it again just a few minutes ago I wondered, why did they make this one?

RETRIBUTION was more about the special effects than it was about moving the serial story along. Alice has become a facade of herself. Tramping through different scenarios run by the red queen she finds herself facing one problem and danger after another. Now before I go on I have to say, I love the evolution of zombies. I love that zombies can be fast, or talk, or thoughtful, or fall in love, but I have a serious problem with a zombie driving a tank, or shooting a gun, and the worst offender, a zombie using a chainsaw to cut into a militant dude. I mean seriously! It wasn't just that they were using modern day weaponry, but I swear these zombies were the same zombies from DEAD SNOW, and they were sooooo much cooler in DEAD SNOW!

It wasn't just the zombies that were a problem for me. The weird octopus monster thing with the big teeth and no face was a non-starter. It wasn't scary, just weird and over the top. The gore in the movie all seemed to be overdone and in the wrong places. And yet I probably could have overlooked all of this if there had been less of one thing, drama. This movie tried to be so emotionally dramatic that I wanted to throw things at the television. RESIDENT EVIL isn't meant to be dramatic and tear-jerking, RESIDENT EVIL is meant to be zombirific and action packed and exciting.

I don't know what the studio was thinking when they made this movie, and I'm wondering what the next one (if it's made) will be like. I just hope it doesn't suck, at least not this much!

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    Stacy has a lot on her mind, so sharing helps. She also has a great love of movies and books, so she decided to blog about it. Get her reviews here! 

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