Nerd alert! Resident Evil: Afterlife wants to go back to what made the first film tolerable for horror/zombie fans and fans of the video game series. The series somehow made it over the horrible hump after the disastrous Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Paul W.S. Anderson came back to direct the fourth installment.
The film series has tried to include elements from the games, and Afterlife includes characters from both Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil 5 (two of my favorites). It’s nice to see Claire and Chris Redfield in action, but it’s also really only semi-appealing to fans of the game. Also, I thought Wentworth Miller was really the standout actor in the film as Chris Redfield, but not enough was done with his character.
The film was made for 3D and was just fine in the appearance of 2D on Blu-ray. The Blu-ray also has some nice features, including Zombie picture-in-picture vision.
The opening scene was pretty neat with the zombie Japanese girl, though I’m not sure how it really tied into the entire film. That’s also one of my biggest complaints is the lack of zombie action and the reliance on 3D action sequences that quickly become cheesy. For example, the battle scene with the Executioner was more cartoonish than it was dark and suspenseful.
Wesker was actually done better than I thought, and did become too corny in the end. And, of course the film is cheesy and mindless. But, luckily it’s not too mindless for fans of action films and the Resident Evil games. Something like this often borderlines into Uwe Boll Alone in the Dark territory, but manages to regain consciousness due to Anderson and Mila Jovovich actually caring about their work to some extent.
4/10
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