Resident Evil: Retribution [2012]

No tension, excitement, or interest, amateurish action, and lousy CGI’s.That’s “Resident Evil Retribution” in a nutshell.  Even die hard fans of the series will agree with me this time around. The 5^th installment is the worst one so far and I demand an explanation. I never expected Shakespeare but I guess I never expected it to be this bad. After all, There’s nothing wrong with a film about killing zombies thoughtlessly, if that film contains loads of great action set-pieces, but “Retribution” has too much downtime and takes itself way too seriously to succeed at being campy-fun.  Following the events of “Afterlife”,  Alice finds herself recaptured by the Umbrella Corporation after her escape to Arcadia, a cargo tanker that was meant to be a last safe haven for what was left of the humans. Brought to a large underground facility where each cavernous section is made to resemble one of the major cities of New York, Moscow and Tokyo, Alice teams up with Ada a survivor also captured by the Umbrella. Or something like that. What follows is a series of non stop action sequences that would have been cool if the story actually reached a satisfying conclusion. But it doesn’t. Instead, it teases us by announcing that there will be at least one more sequel to come (how awful!). The plot barely offers any surprises and fails to stay on rails.  Devotees “may” enjoy it more than others, who, in the unlikely event they watch, will find it repetitious, unimaginative, and routine.  Personally, I say enough already.

Fiasco!