Resident Evil: Extinction

Name: Resident Evil: Extinction

Genre: Action/Horror/Science Fiction/Thriller

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Russell Mulcahy (Director)

Synopsis: Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up in a shower room in the mansion. She dresses up and moves ahead. She survived the lasers of the Laser room as shown in first part of resident evil and managed to come in the hospital corridor and escapes from a giant blade from in the corridor. But she was killed by a rotating machine gun which came out suddenly in the middle of corridor. Her body is taken by research facility men and thrown in the pit where hundreds of Alice clones were already dumped. Camera zooms around the facility and shows that thousand of zombies have surrounded the facility which is protect by high and sturdy fence. Being taken all the measures to contain the virus and for cover up of Raccoon city destruction, the virus had spread around the world at a rapid pace. It has not only affected the human beings but also the animals and other living beings on earth and turned most of the places of the world as deserts and wastelands where T-Virus has come into contact. Alice now roams on her own free will and was travelling throw wastelands of Southwestern part of United States. She hears some voice in the radio asking for help. When Alice reached there, she came to know that they were just a gang of robbers and bandits who robs and steals from the survivors. They let Alice to fight some infected dogs present there but Alice beats those infected dogs and by some tricks let their own infected dogs killing them.

Dr. Issacs currently the head of the North American Umbrella facility thinks that recapturing of the Alice should be his top priority and she was the only one who has originally bonded with the T-virus without converting into to Zombie and tries to convince the Umbrella’s board of directors so he can use her blood which could be used in creating a cure for this T-Virus epidemic through a hologram. But umbrella’s present chairman Albert Wesker orders Isaacs to keep focusing on use of Alice clones and not to focus on recapturing of Alice until he informed him. Meanwhile, Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) with his convoy which includes Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), LJ, along with some new survivors K-Mart, Mikey, Chase and others were wandering in different cities searching for supplies for her and rest of the convoy. While searching a Motel, LJ got bitten by a Zombie he didn’t tell anyone about that. Claire ordered his convoy to maintain a perimeter so that they could spend the night there. In the morning they were attacked by crows that were also infected by the virus might be they were feeding on infected animals. They killed some of convoy members and overpowered them with a flamethrower went out of control. When the infected crows were about to kill the convoy Alice came their and used her powers and a wave of fire thus killings most of the crows and saved Carlos and the rest of the convoy members. As Carlos knows Alice very well he introduced Alice to Claire. Alice told Claire that he has received a diary which tells that there is a place called Arcadia in Alaska which is free from T-virus and is a safe zone for living. Alice and Carlos tried to convince Claire to take the convoy members there. She agreed but to go Las Vegas to have supplies first which will them in reaching Arcadia. Dr, Isaacs wants to keep breading the new breed of zombies which he created. He has asked Wesker’s security officer to keep let him continue his work although he is disregarding Wesker’s order to him as it is essential for the finding the cure. White Queen the artificial intelligence of that facility informs that she had recently discovers the whereabouts of Alice by using triangulates position. Hearing this, Dr. Isaacs has sent a group of new breed of zombies to ambush the convoy including Alice even though Wesker had not given the orders for her pursuit.

When the convoy reached Las Vegas they were attacked by the zombies send by Dr. Isaacs. L.J. was succumbed injuries during the Zombies attacks and Carlos being bitten by one of the zombie in that ambush. During the ambush of the zombies most of the convoy members including Mikey,LJ and Chase. Umbrella forces to shutdown project Alice but she somehow breaks free from that and break that programming which controls project Alice and starts fighting again. She moves forward and finds the camp where Dr. Isaacs and others were operating but seeing Alice coming towards them Dr. Isaacs fled from there but got bitten from one of that new zombie breed and got infected and went back to the research facility to have antidote. K-Mart tracked through Isaacs’s computer the whereabouts of the facility and also the chopper so that they could fly to Arcadia. Alice and rest of the convoy see huge number of zombies surrounding the facility and finding a way to enter the facility. Carlos sacrifices himself and made way for convoy in entering in the facility. When they reached there she asked Claire to take the rest of the convoy to arcadia safely. She sees her clones being dumped in the bit and got angry and entered in the facility. Meanwhile, Isaacs takes huge dose of antidote disobeying Wesker’s orders. Slater the security officer of Umbrella facility came there and sees that Isaacs has taken the massive dosage of antivirus which were against Wesker’s orders and he is keeping taking that to stop mutation. Slater kills Isaacs on direct orders of Wesker but suddenly Isaacs being in mutated state kills Slater and rest of the security men present there. White Queen tells Alice that her blood is the cure for T-virus and she had to take down Isaacs and Alice agrees to that. Alice goes down the in the lower parts of lab, she finds a lot of her clones till in the development. Alice finds a replica of the same mansion as of the Hive. Isaacs came there and attacked Alice and during fighting they landed in the laser room. Lasers in that room killed Isaacs but it was stopped by one of the Alice clones from outside. Later, in Tokyo Umbrella facility Wesker was telling its members that North American facility is lost. At that very moment Alice appears through a hologram and telling them that she is coming to get them and also bring in some of his friends. Alice is watching hundred of the containers containing her clones that are in development state.  

Review: It’s the next sequel in the Resident Evil series and yes, it lived up to the expectation very well. Milla Jovovich as usual gives another great performance in this movie as well. In this sequel of the movie performances of the other crew was a little better than the prequel of the same. Some of the fighting sequences in the movie were great. But the story part seems to be a little sloppy and too predictable. Almost everyone who saw the movie can predict that what will happen next, thus the excitement and thrill of the movie goes way down. Zombies look the same and story is more or less predictable. The reason it did well is the performance of Milla Jovovich alone and some of the action sequences in the movie.

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.