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#1 Posted on 23.9.07 1521.22
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I was invited by a friend to catch this movie over the weekend. Now, I'm not a zombie movie affectianado by any stretch of the imagination, but aren't the human actors supposed to show more emotion than the zombies?

It was gory, bloody, and at times scary. It kept the atmosphere of the games in tact, but I wasn't sure about the storyline, but it looked good, and had a set up for another sequel.

Anyone else catch this?
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#2 Posted on 23.9.07 2141.18
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I was kinda dissapointed by it.

This isn't to say that I didn't like, because I did, but it was kinda short. The showing we went to started at 1:30 and we were out of there and already in the car by 3:00. This included 6 previews before the film that lasted about 20 minutes total.

I really LOVED the ending set up though. That's the best thing about each of these films. I'd rate it above the first one but lower then the second.

There seemed to be too much plot going on as well, but still good.

(SPOILER below!!!)

I was sad to see them kill off Carlos Olivera, who was the last living character from the second film not played by a female. Go Girl Power, indeed!

Also, the entire theater cracked up when the one girl said her name was K-Mart because that's where they found her... in a K-Mart. How did THEY get product placement instead of WALMART or the more aptly named TARGET. TARGET would have been just as funny and it would have had that double meaning we all love in films.

On a side note, it seems that the film pulled in $24 million over the weekend, which is surprising good. Anything to get that awful Jodie Foster film away from the cinemas is a plus and it also trounced over GOOD LUCK CHUCK, thankfully.
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#3 Posted on 23.9.07 2326.18
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took the wife to see this on saterday night. Its a good film. The only part she didn't like was that they never said what happens to Jill and Angie.

Poor Steve cant cut a brake can he?

Still no meton of Chris but Clare was more of a Bad ass then i rember. You can tell who the game geeks were when we stared Cheering for Welskle and Triant.

I did like the ending better then i did part 2.

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#4 Posted on 24.9.07 2051.17
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I thought Resident Evil: Extinction was a watchable bad movie. It was much better than the second one so it has that in its favor. The first thing that annoyed me was that all of the trailers, TV spots and print ads sell this movie based on the Las Vegas setting but the Vegas sequence is only about ten minutes, fifteen tops.

I very quickly got tired of the lousy one-liners passing for dialogue:

"Sorry about this, Stevie."
"Maybe the desert took it back."
"Good thing we like a challenge."
"I wish I had a smoke."
And so forth. Most of the bad one-liners were delivered in Milla Jovovich's husky "I'm such a bad ass chick" voice. Yeah, whatever, you don't go to Resident Evil movies to hear witty banter but it was still annoying to listen to.

There were all kinds of dumb logic gaps and plot holes that are typical of a Paul WS Anderson-written movie. Such as:

* The beginning where Milla runs into the hillbilly family. It had nothing to do with the main story. I figured they were cannibals but instead they just capture people and feed them to zombie dogs. Why does the hillbilly family go through all the trouble of luring people to their town just to feed them to zombie dogs? Why do they even keep a kennel of zombie dogs? How do they get the zombie dogs back in their cages? It's not like zombie dogs take instruction or are trainable. It was a pretty stupid and unnecessary sequence. It doesn't establish Milla is a bad ass; we have two prior movies that told us that. And it didn't set up her new power of telekinesis, which came later. Stupid opener.

* The Umbrella board of directors threatening to take the antivirus project away from the crazy doctor. Why even threaten? If they have someone better at Umbrella who can do the job, why are they even wasting time with the crazy doctor? They don't even like him. The entire interplay of how the Umbrella corporation functions makes no sense. But then I suppose that's why those dumbasses got the entire human race infected and turned into zombies.

* Ali Larter (is hot!) having doubts about the plan to take the caravan to Alaska. What was her backup plan? Keep driving around the desert and wait to be eaten? They already established that they had drained all the small towns dry of supplies. Yet the leader of the caravan needed to be convinced to take plan B, a chance at hope, instead of her current plan A of prolonging the inevitable death by zombie consumption.

* Las Vegas buried in sand. WHAT?! First of all, that could never happen in five years. Second, yes, Vegas is in the desert in Nevada, but it's a dry desert. It's not like the surrounding desert is dunes of sand like the Sahara or Tunisia. The explanation of "no one was here to keep the sand away" is retarded. No one in Las Vegas today "keeps the sand away." It makes no sense. Also, it doesn't seem like the filmmakers have ever been to Vegas. There were no casinos or buildings in between the Venetian all the way to the Stratosphere. And when the caravan parks they park in front of the Paris, send someone up the Eiffel Tower, but suddenly they're at the Venetian? Those Casinos are at least a half mile apart.

* The scene that made me laugh out loud was when the crazy doctor injected a zombie with antivirus and restores a portion of his humanity temporarily. First, he hands him a cell phone. Zombie remembers how to use it. Then a digital camera. Oh sure, the zombie knows how that works. Point and click. After the zombie proves he can recognize complicated items, THEN he hands him the child's toy! "Circle... not fit in square? GRRAARRR! I'll kill you!"

There was other stuff I thought was stupid but I can't remember now. Still, though, the movie was all right.

Oh, so what the hell ever happened to Jill Valentine?
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#5 Posted on 24.9.07 2355.43
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From what I found out Jill Leavs shotly after the end of Part 2. She does this to try to take the cops off of their trail and talk some sence into them that the tape was real. She does so after the Virus Spreds. She then Saves a group of people and becomes their leader.

As for Angie she was killed by Alice under the control of Umbrella. That is how she finds out that they are tracking her and why she taks off.

It would have taken one line to say that in the film

I feel That the Alice / Angie Scene would have been better to open the movie then what we got.
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