Resident Evil: Afterlife

Name: Resident Evil: Afterlife

Genre: Action/Thriller/Horror/Science Fiction

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Paul W.S. Anderson (Director)

Synopsis: Some of the Alice (Milla Jovovich) clones attacks the umbrella facility of Japan in order to kill Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts). Alice clones killed most of the security men of that facility but Wesker too planted an explosion in the facility which results in killing of the Alice clones. When Wesker was about to escape the facility in the aircraft, real Alice ambushed him but he injected a serum in her which will neutralize her T-virus powers. But before Wesker was able to kill Alice, the aircraft got crashed, but Alice survives that and came out alive. Six months later, Alice was travelling in an airplane following the repeating emergency broadcasts from a place called Arcadia which she believes in free from the T-Virus. During the flying of the plane, Alice suddenly sees the helicopter in which Claire and other survivors had escaped from the facility (in the prequel). She then meets Claire with a spider like device attached to her chest but Alice destroyed that, but Claire lost her memory due to that. They both were travelling back to LA to follow the repeated emergency and when they entered LA they sees a Help sign on the building and landed there. She and Claire meet some other survivors living in that building which includes Luther West, Bennett, Wendell and Kim Yong. Luther and other survivors asked Alice that are they being send by Arcadia to which she told them that Arcadia is in Alaska and they are being sent by Arcadia. Luther shows Alice a ship named Arcadia through binoculars and told them that Arcadia isn’t in Alaska but a ship As Claire and Alice meet the survivors present in that building, they also came to know that there is also another survivor named Chris Redfield who is an Umbrella Corporation is locked in the prison by the prisoners as a cruel joke and knows the way to Arcadia and ready to tell only after they will let him free but they don’t believe him and has kept him in the prison

Soon the zombies managed to enter into the tunnel through the sewers into the prison building. The giant zombie with a large blade enters into the prison as well as comes in front of the building as well. Seeing no way out, Alice frees Chris so that he could them the way out of here. After being freed, seeing Claire too he tells her that he is her brother but as Claire is under Amnesia she doesn’t remember him. Chris tells them that there is an armored vehicle and they could escape in that from the prison. One group containing Alice, Crystal and Chris went into the armory to get the guns while Luther and Claire were holding Axeman and the zombies at the gate. Seeing the engine is not there in the armored vehicle and it will takes weeks to fit that engine, Bennett cleverly shots at them and went to Arcadia ship alone leaving the rest of survivors there and flew in the Alice plane. Seeing no other alternative Alice and the rest of the group escapes through the sewers where the zombies enter the building. When Alice, Claire and Chris reach Arcadia ship, they saw the ship was fully functional but no person was there in that. As they explored the ship further, they find out that this a ship that lures the survivors of the T-virus to come in the ship so that they can have experiments on them. Claire remembers that she and the rest of the convoy was too attacked by umbrella men and taken into custody and a spider like device was attached to them but Claire managed to escape from there. As they moved further to explore the ship, Alice finds Wesker who is now too affected by T-virus and battling in for the control but couldn’t able to control the virus perfectly as Alice did. He wants to assimilate Alice to perfectly control the virus.

Claire and Chris too meet Wesker and all the three Alice, Claire and Chris starts fighting Wesker. Initially Wesker overpower all three of them but Alice defeated Wesker with the help of recovered K-Mart. Alice killed Bennett who now sided with Wesker. Wesker regenerates and tries to escape from their by boarding his plane and attempts to destroy the ship and the rest of the survivors by activating the bomb planted on the ship. As Alice anticipated his action, she planted the bomb which Wesker activated within the plane and that explodes. There was a bomb flash but after clearing smoke of bomb a parachute was seen flying in the sky. Luther on other side emerges from sewers as being shown that he has also escaped. Alice broadcasts a message for the survivors of the virus to come to Arcadia as it is a safe place and released rest of the survivors of T-virus who were being captured by Umbrella men before. A fleet of helicopters with heavily armed Umbrella troops approached Arcadia and revealed that Jill Valentine is leading that assault troop with the same spider like device attached to her chest as it was attached on Claire.

Review: In this sequel of movie, something was different than that of the some of the prequels of Resident Evil. Movie was a little precise and cut short which was good sign for the movie. Movie moves at a steady pace which also seems fine but what’s disappointing is the story part. Story seems to gone way too down for this part of the movie. It lacks originality and classiness of Resident Evil. It seems this movie lacks the core heart what Resident Evil is all about. The film seems to be made for action done by Milla Jovovvich and nothing else. No doubt performance of Milla Jovovich in this movie was also great as rest of the previous part. Some of the action sequences in the movie were good and so do was some of the special effects. So the 3D version of the movie was little affective and was good for the movie. As a whole, the movie is fair enough to watch which mainly contains some good action sequences by Milla Jovovich. 

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.