Resident Evil: Retribution

Name: Resident Evil: Retribution

Genre: Action/Horror/Thriller/Science Fiction

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Paul W.S. Anderson (Director)

Synopsis: Fleet of airships attacked Arcadia on which Alice, Claire and the rest of the survivors were there. The attack was lead by Jill Valentine who was one of the former allies of Alice but now during the attack she didn’t remember anything as a spider like device is attached to her chest which has brainwashed her. Alice was able to crash one of the airships and due to that a bog explosion happened which knocks down Alice. Next scene came as a house who looks alike as Alice is living with her husband Todd with their daughter Becky who is deaf in a suburban area. Some Zombies attack them in their home. As both Alice and Becky escapes from their house and runs on the streets, they were rescued by a girl who same as Rain (Michelle Rodriguez). When they were escaping through the car, their car hit by a truck which resulting in knocking out of Rain. Alice and Becky escapes from there. It is shown as the whole city is now same look alike as Raccoon city during the zombie attack. Soon Alice was killed by zombie turned Todd. After some time, Alice awakes and finds herself being held captive by Umbrella. Alice tries to escape from cell in which she was kept. As she tries to escape she went into the chambers she sees herself in Shibuya Square, Tokyo. As she fights herself from the zombies from Tokyo, she was able to return to the Umbrella’s facility. As she moved ahead in the facility, she meets Ada Wong one of the top agents of Albert Wesker.

Albert Wesker appears on the screen and tells Alice that the Red Queen was reactivated after the Hive contamination by the Umbrella is now controlling the whole systems of Umbrella Corporation. Ada tells Alice that the facility is underwater located in Kamchatka, Russia as this base was used to show the effects of T-virus on the clones which were also manufactured here and it is the only way to the base from the land. To provide help to Alice and Ada so that they can escape, Wesker has arranged a group of men for their help comprising Leon S Kennedy, Barry Burton and Luther West. The group will plant bombs at the entrance of base which will detonate in two hours which will ensure that the base has to be destroyed at any cost. Alice and Ada enters the New York simulation created by Red Queen. They defeated two axeman and rest of the zombies in that simulation. Leon and others enters the Moscow simulation and deals with the newly breed zombies. Alice and Ada enters the Suburban simulation and waits to meets Leon and the others as originally planned by them. In that simulation, they meet Becky which treats real Alice as her mother in the suburban area. Ada tells her that Umbrella uses clones for virus breakout simulations and what she sees here is clones. The group was attacked by Jill and her men which includes clones of Rain who was one of the previous ally of Alice, Carlos and James the leader of SWAT group which Alice meet at the entrance of Hive. Alice and Becky runs from their and meets Rain (the good one) which is on their side and enters Moscow’s simulation which they meet Leon and rest of the group. Alice traced Lickers present their while Leon and others starts gun fight with Jill and her men. They make their way through the zombies and reached the elevator. Soon Lickers killed Becky and Rain (Good version). After Alice rescues Becky both of them reached the cloning facility where they see their multiple clones. As Alice sees Lickers following them through the facility, she drops grenades resulting in explosion in the facility. The bombs planted at the entrance facility also starts exploding now. Luther and Leon escapes through the elevator and where Alice and Becky escaped through ventilation system.

Jill and her men captured Ada and ambushed Alice and rest of the group when reached at the surface of the base. Jill starts attacking Alice. Rain (Evil Version) injects herself with some parasite which gives her superpowers which will help her in taking down the group. She starts fighting Ada, Leon and Luther. Rain kills Luther by breaking his ribs and stops his heartbeat. Leon is knocked out. Alice manages to break the spider device attached to Jill which results in Jill comes backs to her normal state. Alice on realizing that Rain can’t be killed after attempting so many times, shoot at ice which results in falling of Rain. She tries to come back but the zombies pulled her back in the water. Alice after sometime lost her passes out due to injuring and fallout of her stamina. Alice, Jill, Becky, Leon and Ada travelled to Wesker’s base staffed by STARS officers. Alice meets Wesker and soon Wesker injects her with T-Virus which will give her former powers back as she was the only person who successfully bonded with that virus. Wesker tells Alice the reason she is given back her powers is that Red Queen is trying to take control over the world and killing all humanity and who are the survivors left are present here. At the end, it is shown that Wesker’s men along side with US armed forces are defending White house against the T-virus zombies. A fight against the T-virus and red Queen has just come to a whole new level.

Review: It’s all the same as rest of the prequels of Resident Evil. Same predictable scenes with almost same type of action sequences. Milla Jovovich as usual did her level best as per her performance and some classy moves are concerned. Anderson this time tried to make a different type of story in this part which he succeeded to some extent. Story of the movie seems to be so unclear and distorted that some may think what has gone wrong with Resident Evil. Some scenes which were not at all needed in the movie were unnecessarily there. Rest of the crew’s performance was as usual decent enough. What resident evil was about actually a virus breakout with some horrifying experiences and in the end day saved by some skilled officers has now looked in the Resident Evil movie sequels as killing of zombies with some good action sequences by Milla Jovovich and nothing else.

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5